A Journey of a Thousand Miles
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Or, in our case, a journey of a single mile begins with a thousand steps.I certainly do not want to dissuade anyone from travelling. My life...
View ArticleNew Year's "Predictions" and Predictions (2014)
I predict that this will be my last Predictions post. I prefer to not repeat the previous predictions, unless they are worthy and still relevant. Unfortunately, fewer of my previous predictions are...
View ArticleNews: Other (Dec 2013)
1 Dec In last month's post (at 3 Nov), I provided an article about Sikkim. In this blog, I am limited in my description of places by the number of places I visit. Thus, I was happy to provide an...
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Government as Criminals (Dec 2013)
1 Dec (FCM, GI) RCW1 Dec (FCM) Germany 2 Dec (Pati) RCW 2 Dec (OC) RCW2 Dec (OC) U.K.2 Dec (OC) G.A.2 Dec (OC) RCW 2 Dec (FCM) G.A. 2 Dec (FCM) G.A.2 Dec (FCM) South Africa 3 Dec (Judiciary)...
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Hotel Meredian Comfort Inn
When we arrived at the Nampally Train Station, I did not want to go to the Hotel Royal Grand. I did want to stay there because I had written a somewhat negative review of it; because I wanted to review...
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Hyderabad in the Winter
In short, it was chilly.As with my recent Journey post in which I mentioned some experiences on the train that I had not experienced before, we had some new observations and experiences in Hyderabad....
View ArticleFilm Review of Pacific Rim
This is my film review of Dhoom 3: we did not watch it.We went to Hyderabad planning to watch the film, among other things. I felt some trepidation; after all, we were going to watch it on the second...
View ArticleGovernment as Murderers (Dec 2013)
A work in progressI want to emphasize and define some abbreviations that I use: JJE=Judge, Jury & Executioner (aka police); FCM=Fee-Collecting Murderers (aka police); HF/HS=Human Feces/Human Scum...
View ArticleMy Fifth-Year Anniversary
Now, for five years I have been on my own and moss grows fat on a rolling stone, but that's not how it used to be...No, it is an anniversary not of my marriage but of my arrival here in India.It is...
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Another Lesson
In my recent Travelling post, I wrote that, in contradistinction to beginning a thousand-mile journey simply by making a first step, there are often many hurdles to overcome. In our more recent journey...
View ArticleMumbai Hotels
Arriving at C.S.T. (Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus--formerly V.T. or Victoria Terminus--featured in Slumdog Millionaire and virtually every other movie filmed in Mumbai), Caroline told me about a Waiting...
View ArticleNews: Other (Jan 2014)
30 Dec This was front-age news in the Telegraph. It discusses something that I have mentioned at least once in my blog: the undesirability of India's current time system. It advocates shifting clocks...
View ArticleGovernment as Criminals (Jan 2014)
1 Jan (GI) RCW1 Jan U.A.E. 1 Jan (Military) RCW1 Jan (FCM) RCW1 Jan (FCM, GI) RCW2 Jan (Judiciary) G.A. (In other words, it is okay to trample on the rights of the minority.)2 Jan (Pati, $)...
View ArticlePersons of the Year
As I was growing up, Time magazine's "Man of the Year" (before it became "Person of the Year") issue was always eagerly awaited. U.S. News & World Report and other weekly news magazines had similar...
View ArticleIn India, Rape is Legal but Sex is Not, Revisited
Almost as soon as I wrote In India, Rape is Legal but Sex is Not, I was slightly disappointed in it. I was happy with my reaction to the news articles, but unhappy with my conclusion. I felt that it...
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News: Other (Feb 2014)
1 Feb The Chinese New Year in Kolkata--not quite that of San Francisco, though. As always, to find out more about the Chinese in Kolkata, read Dhapa.com2 Feb News of San Francisco in the Times of...
View ArticleGovernment as Criminals (Feb 2013)
2 Feb (Pathological Liars) RCW2 Feb (Pathological Liars) RCW (And he is still unethical!)2 Feb (RCI) RCW 3 Feb (FCM) RCW3 Feb (Pathological Liars) RCW (This is good news! After all, rapists and...
View ArticleBombay Bina [Without] Bal
Bal Thackeray's grandfather gave his son (Bal's father) the surname "Thakre". Bal's father later decided to alter it to "Thackeray" in admiration and emulation of William Makepeace ThackerayBal grew up...
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Bats in Bombay? Boooo!
The title, of course, refers to the famous (or, at least, famous in the San Francisco Bay Area) commercial, "Farms in Berkeley? Mooo!" (and the actual commercials here).We walked along Md. Ali Road one...
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The Journey Before the Journey
It was time, once again, to depart from India. I am happy that the "David Headley Rule" (which mandated that people with tourist visas had to stay away for two months) was rescinded about a year ago,...
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