అంకురం - hopefully for a better tomorrow

ఎవరో ఒకరు ఎపుడో అపుడు 
నడవరా ముందుగా అటో ఇటో ఎటో వైపు 
మొదటి వాడు ఎప్పుడూ ఒక్కడే మరి 
మొదటి అడుగు ఎప్పుడూ ఒంటరే మరి 
వెనుకవచ్చు వాళ్ళకు బాట అయినది  

Arvind Kejriwal - proud of you! You have won the big battle, setting huge expectations for fellow countrymen. You have a long road ahead, try to stay centre left, but don't resurrect freebies and unsustainable populist schemes. As you strongly believe what India needs is governance by improving efficiency, cutting down the red-tape and restraining babu-shahi, definitely hoping for better tomorrow.

What an engrossing test match

Who would say test cricket is boring after watching cricket today? What an engrossing match of test cricket, completely drained with exhaustion watching the match on television, I can only imagine what it would be like in the middle. The match went all the way to the last ball, which everyone thought was in India's kitty for 3 days now. Full credit to South Africa, unfortunate to see them not hitting the winning runs after such a herculean batting effort. Had it not been for MS's captaincy India would have surrendered the match. It's a pity we don't encourage our fast bowlers and do not provide them with enough support, the three fast bowlers were completely drained at the end of the match having bowled 60+ overs each. Hopefully with the Tendulkar mania ending, we start respecting bowlers and prepare sportive pitches at home, at least to begin with for domestic games.

After a very long time, spent the entire weekend at home waiting to watch and watching it fully sitting on the couch only to get up for dinner and toilet breaks. Loved it !

A harsh reminder - am I doing anything?

Courtesy : New York Times
Inequality, Indian Style

"A rich man builds a 27-story house for his family in a nation of 1.2 billion people where more than a quarter of them — or roughly the U.S. population — lives on less than two bucks a day."

" impunity of politicians cutting sweet deals for themselves and walking off with suitcases of cash, the greed-is-good top 1 percent, the lousy infrastructure and inadequate schools, the first-world privatized services for the rich and substandard public service for the rest, the blindness of privilege"

"A booming India of rising middle-class fortunes had parted company with a bigger one still mired in distress, and without any real debate India, like much of the world, had embraced Margaret Thatcher’s “There is no such thing as society” as a prevailing idea."

Harsh reminder to Indians like me, living abroad leading a good life, wanting to do something, but never take the first step.