Ideas & Views

Mathura, the birthplace of Sri Krishna, is where I spent one year after my undergraduation. A batch of 23 fun loving people – that’s to be euphemistic – joined me in this journey just out of college. After my first trip to the much hyped about City, I guided people who came to me for advice and who still had high hopes of pub, music and galore, that if they stand at one place for more than few seconds in the City, they would surely have some cattle deposit its charge, hot and rot, on their shoes. With our exaggerated observation, we all agreed, after visiting the City only twice, that, there must be at least one-lakh shrines in this holy City. One fellow wouldn’t agree on this number and even started out to count them but for the fear of him growing old, we added the word ‘at least’ in the count. Few of us felt that this should be reported in Guinness Book of World Records so that U.P Tourism would see the light of the day. Whoever said India is a developing country, should clarify in ...

few days back, i had watched the movie "Day after tomorrow". The movie is about a consequence of global warming- the advent of ice age. Some parts of the northern hemisphere, whose warmth is maintained by the warm ocean currents of the atlantic, are frozen because of the melting of a large antartic glacier.......ice age due to global warming!!!!!sounds like an oxymoron!!! well, the concept is picking up. i am half way through Michael Crinchton's 'State of Fear', his latest best-seller on shelves. the front and back flap of the novel gives no outline of the story. nor is there any preface or foreword. let me break the rules. the plot is about global warming, environmentalists, climate/weather change, and so on. when the news of the tsunami came early sunday morning, more than shock, i was thrilled.is the tsunami real????ofcourse, i got my answer when i read that this man-eater wave of indian ocean is equivalent to a million atomic bomb explosions. this is defin...

Here comes the world's worst (worst in my life time so far) disaster, claiming more than 70,000 people. Every news site, news channel is running a live score of the casualty. And not to spare, every blogger has something to write about it. A catastrophe of such magnitude is bound to affect every living soul on mother earth, especially when She is the cause. Its the poor who is affected again. Even mother nature, let alone the Govt, is being biased. Though this one time, unlike the Govt ways, the rich doesn't get richer but the poor haplessly gets poorer. Those who were in the huts are now in the streets. Concerning India, we have proved it time and again that we are a country rich of humane values. Though our own arm is bleeding, we have extended a helping hand to srilankans by sending 4 warships full of emergency supplies(blankets, sareers, pans, medicines,etc). Even Pakistan has sent rescue naval staff and supplies to srilanka and thai, which is quite a surprise!!!( no ...

All said and done about Dan Brown, Deception Point (DP) is a let down for those who have read DVC and DF. Though Brown has tried to convince that all the technology described in the book is real, it sounds far from it. The usual escape from death and the himalayan trials of his main characters shout loud and clear " u r reading fiction". The protogonists can sink into a shark's mouth and still come out safe with the slighest injury to their arms.....because the shark was not hungry!! I am struck for words to describe the plot of the novel because even a slight hint might make the reading uninteresting. Brown, as usual, has a qualified, intelligent and smart woman for the heroine and a matching (that makes simpler) hero for her to pull her out of mishaps. the same old villain is disguised from the start, though, in DP, it becomes obvious after few pages who the villain is -atleast i guessed it right. the story revolves around a path- breaking NASA discovery and serves Br...