The Day of the Triffids!!!

When we are the ones not caring for them, they will have to take matters into their own hands; then the day would not be far when the plants would rule this planet!!!

References:

Boffins say plants can talk

Plants' airborne internet warns of danger

Plants 'talk' to warn each other of threats

Divesting wrong assets!!!

An age old question again needs to be re-looked at. Why should the government only divest its stake in profitable government ventures and leave out Air India type of loss making establishments.



References:

Air India seeks employees' help in 'fight for survival'

Air India asks senior staff to forego July pay to cut costs

CIL disinvestment likely by end of 2009-10: Coal Minister

Govt looking at proposal to divest 10% in BHEL

Shamefully Strange Events

How many days has it been
Since I was born
How many days until I die
Do I know any ways
That I can make you laugh
Or do I only know how to make you cry

When the baby looks around him
It's such a sight to see
He shares a simple secret
With the wise man

He's a stranger in a strange land
Just a stranger in a strange land
Tell me why
He's a stranger in a strange land
Just a stranger in a strange land

How many miles will it take
To see the sun
And how many years until it's done
Kiss my confusion away in the night
Lay by side when the morning comes

And the baby looks around him
And shares his bed of hay
With the burrow in the palace of the king

He's a stranger in a strange land
Tell me why
He's a stranger in a strange land
Just a stranger in a strange land

Well, I don't exactly know
What's going on in the world today
Don't know what there is to say
About the way the people are treating
Each other, not like brothers

Leaders take us far away from ecology
With mythology and astrology
Has got some words to say
About the way we live today
Why can't we learn to love each other
It's time to turn a new face
To the whole world wide human race

Stop the money chase
Lay back, relax
Get back on the human track
Stop racing toward oblivion
Oh, such a sad, sad state we're in
And that's a thing

Do you recognize the bells of truth
When you hear them ring
Won't you stop and listen
To the children sing
Won't you come on and sing it children

He's a stranger in a strange land
Just a stranger in a strange land

Stranger in a Strange Land - Leon Russell & the Shelter People, 1971

References:

N Korean Nuclear Threat Expected to Dominate US - South Korea Talks

Did Indian students falter in etiquette in Australia?

Delhi youth latest victim of racial assaults in Australia

5-member family from US quarantined in city

Israeli PM 'ruins' peace chance

Rahul birthday to kick-start 'woo Dalit' campaign in UP

Maya up in arms against all things related to Gandhi

The economic cost of race violence

Fans burn Dhoni's effigy, ex-cricketers appeal restraint

Roshans cooked up Hrithik-Barbara love story!

tuh-mey-toh (tomato) or tuh-mah-toh (tomato): Racisim or Not is the question!!!???

It seems that intolerance to difference is the bread and butter of the West and Caucasian Southern Hemisphere. Australian cops state that "Indian community members here point out that some Indian students do not behave properly in public places, especially in trains and market places. They play loud music and speak loudly on the phone in public transport, some can hardly converse in English and many choose to just stick to people from their own region."

In what civilized world does such behavior warrant assault on a particular community. Singapore does levy fines for public nuisance, a rational and civilized way to regulate public space (hence the name, "fine country"). Uniformity if pursued so vociferously would then leave us no different from the Islamic fundamentalists, the Hindu fundamentalists, and the like!!!




References:

Indians are not the only ones attacked in Australia: Cops

Australia: Indian university students protest racist attacks


Crikey wrap: Indian press on Australia's racism