Chain of thoughts on the 18th of December 2014.
My driver to the railway station explained to me why he sits with a straight back and how using the complete back rest makes him sleepy and he can't afford to be sleepy when he drives 300 to 400 km or even 500 km or 10 km and how he sleeps on a TAKHAT and not a Charpai.
Have not been reading the newspapers for quite some time despite knowing the perils of it.
So reading the newspaper today taught me how fragile life is and no matter what you do to protect it, there is a maniac out there who does not even know you exist and who will end it in the blink of an eye.
To quote someone. "All that I have lived for, has gone and now I wait to follow. "
Could not read or absorb Prasoon Joshi's rhyme of poignance. Well how does one think in rhythm in times like this. Hats off to you man.
There was Anupam Kher who wrote that he was reduced to a dead man walking and how he had died everyday all these years by the acts of terrorism. His words did not captivate me or hold me hostage to read to the end.
I really don't know what ever he meant by what ever he did write exclusively for Hindustan Times.
Times like these also carry a tag, people write EXCLUSIVELY.
Spice jet grounded, travellers and their dream destination on cheap air fares don't take off. But my heart goes out to the 5300 odd people employed in the organisation.
Recall the days of 2006 when we piloted funding the education of kids dreaming to become a commercial pilot, going to the U.S. and coming back to a guaranteed job with Spice. The bank took no guarantee on those loans, just a promissory note that repayment would happen.
Even in those days, it was a far fetched dream. Well I guess it would have flown for a few years atleast.
Read a Hillary Clinton quote of 2011 that keeping snakes in your backyard to bite your neighbours does not mean it will not bite you. To think of it what does the bitch think she was talking about. The snakes had flown to the U.S. and bit them a decade ago. To think that the US is what has funded the Taliban indirectly in the Afgan war. A decade of war inflicted in Afghanistan. 1 trillion dollars and 3400 NATO troops dead and 13 years later The US begins evacuation.
What are we talking about. GREEN ZONE
Investigations show that coal imported from Indonesia to India was invoiced as twice the value of the actual price. That's 29000 crores. Cost of electricity would have reduced by Rs 1 per unit. You and I pay for it.
MBBS and MD seats sold at Rs 3 crores each. Why would the doctor not cheat the patients even if the patient was not helpless. He has to recover the money in his lifetime and pay off his dad, that is if he cares enough for his dad else his dad can also fend for himself. How did dad get the Rs 3 crores remains unanswered.
Hero Honda sells 500 motorcycles online in 8 hours through Snap deal.
Online retailing is the new buzz. Everyone is raising funds. For every one successful venture 10 have closed down. Some have booked losses more than what they sold. Amazing. Deep discounting. Flipkart, Amazon and snapdeal all survive thanks to the global funding. The future is out there even if the combined losses aggregate 1000 crores in a year. That's a lot of loss and we are still funding. Latest to enter is QIA the guys who own Harrods. Wow. Brick and mortar funds online. Hope of making more money drives the entire world.
If I were to tell you that this boom will not last and the dot com bubble and the airline bubble and that eretailing is also a bubble, it is mind blowing. How funds keep investing into losses.
Which brought me to an article on trust. You have no clue who is driving you at uber, and how the London black taxi cab is 20% more expensive than any other but you know that you can trust them. Well ok so be it. I would not trust no one with my life I don't know. The girl made a mistake. It could have been a boy and he could have got killed and it would not have made the headlines it did. But stop. Rape makes it sensational. And oh my god after so many days of it being in the news I read that its "alleged rape". And the author closes the article with "Go girl sue uber for the moon and the stars and the milkyway", which is basically saying "babe go and make money out of the situation if not anything else.
Oh by the way I read that the Nirbhay episode is now 2 years old. Mind blowing, I did not recall this. What I did recall was that she was flown to Singapore for treatment. It's not funny what kind of a paradoxical life we lead ourself into. Human life and human abuse is gender biased.
Radio cabbies work the hard way and the application on your phone works the smart way. Oh by the way it even talks about the Sydney hostage drama on how the pricing of the cabs to evacuate the area went up. It's called surge pricing. Wow.
The world is about making more money out of the given situation. FROM YOU AND YOUR SMART PHONE.
The rouble falls. I did not read further There are some 1500 odd medical students in Russia who are insulated because they pay in USD.
Ferrari did not win a single pole position in 2014, for the first time since 1993. Now that's big news. The engineer pays the price, he was asked to leave.
It's good to read the conclusion that Pakistan will still not change after this incident, it was scary to read further that it could lunge further deep into its neighbours which includes India.
The picture of the day was police commandos outside Delhi public school. Which proves what I had written that schools would become military establishments in the near future. You simply can't protect the future. You can't be everywhere.
Oh yes the world has changed and yet it has not changed. President of America is black and he has been taken for a valet and a server and the First Lady is just another lady is her experience. Racism still exists but not to the degree it was before and even the president of the United States is worried about the safety of his children if they were alone and black and without the secret service. That's something.
I foresee Delhi and the country turning into a fort during his visit as the chief guest to the Republic day parade. Meaning : Traffic SNARLS.
Traffic advisory to reach office during Republic day preparation is what I will read the newspaper for next. Till then let Jack Ma also invest in India.
Oh yes I almost missed the real news. USA and Cuba resume ties 😊 after 53 years. Had I not read the newspaper I would have missed it.
And we talk about children and their future and Michael Jackson sang for the world with the rest of his fraternity "We are the world" and then sang, "Man in the Mirror ", and where did he end up ? Accused of child abuse, which brings me to the next question, who is the worst of the enemy the terrorist who kills your child or the friend or unknown person who abuses your child and sends him back home to live with it for the rest of his or her life.
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