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On a Sweet Sweet Dumbo I know....

This blog im gonna dedicate to the disgustingly sweet dumbo I have ever known.Before meeting her,I never knew people like these existed on this planet.I only thought it was a big bad world out there,where the only thing you can trust is your gun.Meeting her was an eye opener for me.For I now think world is not only big and bad,its weird and psychotic too.:-) well,jokes apart,She is one of the very few reasons,which make my stint at ahmedabad a thing to cherish for life.She's a kinda personality who grows on you with time.Those familiar words,'udamba parthuko da.Nalla sapidu.Nalla thoongu" still ring in my ears,fresh as ever.To care for everyone around her,is something thats programmed like a reflex into her.Okay,I do have a confession to make.Though I used to make fun of those words,only my mind knows how much i wish to hear them again and again. And the rasam that she makes.Boyyyyyyyy...it was awesome...I mean,though she never succeeded in making a successful rasam

The lost world....

This is age of information,globalization,some-x-sisation,etc,etc.Well,atleast thats what our politicians,corporate leaders and some selfstyled-press of the urbane will want us to beleive.How far they are true is,as a matter of fact,fodder for another really really big blog.Im not goin into that stuff,nor am i interested in those unreal hypes.But what interests me is the quantum of change thats occuring in our lives,owing to the ever increasing pace of our days. Let the winds of change,Mahatma gandhi once commented,come into our minds from all directions.But he also cautioned against getting swept away by the same.Unfortunately,it seems he was right,as always.Our insane preoccupation with the pressures of day to day life sadly,has destroyed some important tenets that are the basic ingredients of happiness in life.And as usual as ever,we have gleefully accepted this calamity as a normal consequence of our so-called elevated standards of living. As an examp