Some days back, I read "The Greater Common Good" by Arundhati Roy. I started it with nothing particular in my mind, but as I read it, a barrage of related thoughts came to me. The environmental un-concern in which I live, the havoc of the big project dams, the in-humaneness of the people including me. I would have given up the writing as dramatic had it not been for the amount of evidence and numbers she was putting forth. That made me realize it was all truth and the state of affairs is unimaginable. I felt the need to do something. I thought may be I should call the Narmada Bachao Andolan, I considered going on fasting for day or two. None of this happened. I did visit couple of sites on the same topic: narmada.org and narmada.aidindia.org . Decided to keep track and voice my opinion through whatever means... increase awareness... that is the least I can do...
There needs to be some time when we think of things like environment. If we don't make the effort, it will be thrust on us some point in time.

Shyam said to me, 'This democracy is all not worth it. There is no order. We need dictatorship or military rule'. I said, 'Thanks to democracy that you are still alive'.
Sometimes you get inspired by the books you read. I have just started reading 'The Argumentative Indian' and this came to me. Nothing new about it, but still felt good to mention it

Health: They say that it is the most important wealth. In recent times, I feel there is a lot of truth in it. There was a time when these were just proverbs and words. I did not give it much thought. Lately though, I seems to have incurred some good deficit in my Health account. A spate of cold and coughs (have one right now) with some garnishing of headaches and stomach upsets. So now I understand. People say that the root to this is my weight. I have hit a century after quite sometime of loitering around at 90s. I know I need to reduce my weight. But I dont know how to manage it... Have to do something... Let me see...

My First Blog

Ok Folks. Or rather I think I should start with a why... I mean Hi... You know all the while when I was writing the previous line I wanted to write "I should start with a Hi" but somehow when I wrote it, it became "Why". I dont know why. Interested. No I mean interesting.

Let me get to it. Hi every one. For sometime this thought has been in my mind. You must be wondering which thought I mean. The thought of actually starting a blog. I had heard of them but then never ever tried doing anything with them. Occasionally a google search used to return a blog (mind you all this time I have been using google for searching mainly technology related stuff. sad is it not). Now it was time I started writing something.
There is of course another reason to this. I wanted to write something out. Something anything. You know there are so many idiosynchronous (not sure whether I got the word right, hopefully you got the meaning right) things running in your head and I felt maybe I could use a blog to let off some steam. What do you think. I actually would not bother much on what you would think. I am more bothered about what I feel right now. If I feel good after writing a blog then I would feel my blog would have served its primary purpose. I qualify it as primary because otherwise you would say if that is all i wanted then why not use a good damn word processor and write it down in your own machine (or use a book/diary). So apart from satisfying the primary purpose I thought it would be good to share it with my fellow beings. Many of you (especially after reading this) would probably hate/despise/dislike/plainly bored of what I have to say and might never come back and avoid my blogs at all costs. Some of you would probably pity me as to think that this guy must be really stressed to be writing such blogs. Yet some others might think that they see a brother, who is sailing in the same boat as them. Not sure who those e-kin will be but all the same there is nothing wrong with a search. So finally I am going to start of blogging.

That is it. More than enough I think