Category: Society

I have been a vegan for one and a half years now.
Keeping low profile most of the time. Never actively trying to propogate the idea.

Finally, I feel I should talk about it more. At least make people aware that it is possible to live a cruelty free life.

Human species is evolving fast. Veganism is inevitable. For our descendants, if not us.

How long can this mindless killing and exploitation of animals continue ? Nature will not let one species go too far. It did not let the dinosaurs. We need to stop. And think.

Do we still believe that we need milk for protien ? Even adult cows don’t need it !
Do we need that silk saree which came out of the painful death of thousands of silkworms ?

Vegans will conquer. It is just a question of time, folks.

There are templates for everything.

You buy a greeting card for your loved one. It does n’t matter even if it takes half the time and double the pleasure to make one yourself. You know, everybody buys.

Life insurance, a housing loan for your sweet home and a mutual fund portfolio. Very popular financial plan template.

Career template. Get a college degree in a subject that is ‘in demand’. Get a job. Get promoted. Get promoted. If not, change the job. Get promoted. Get promoted. Die.

Can one do something without a template ? Anything at all ?

United States law makes it illegal for a person to become its president if he/she is not born in the country. Makes sense, right ?

You do not need a Phd in Political Science to rationalize this law. It is just about national security.

Obama had to ‘prove’ that he was born in the USA. That is accountability to the voters.

अन्नम् ब्रह्म – “annam brahma” is an old Hindu idea which roughly means “Food is God”.

If that sounds too primitive, watch the movie “Food Inc” to learn why America is in deep trouble because it sees food as just a commodity. The movie will change forever the way you look at food. Here is the official trailer in Youtube.

Unless you are too busy to take care of your health, I highly recommend you to watch this movie.

What a speech by the MP Shashi Tharoor on what India means to the world in 21st century ! Again, he proves that he is one of the best Indian politicians ever. See for yourself in this TED Video.

I always had a sick feeling about capitalism since it considers money as God. (that is my understanding of it)

“Only after the last tree has been cut down.
Only after the last river has been poisoned.
Only after the last fish has been caught.
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”
– Native American Prophecy

The world’s worst industrial disaster happened in India. Bhopal gas tragedy. The company responsible was US based Union Carbide, whose poorly designed safety system broke and let out tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas into the atmosphere causing hell like consequences in 1984. 500,000 people were exposed to the gas. Thousands died immediately. Tens of thousands were severely disabled and died in the years that followed. Today, children are still born with serious birth defects. The company also left behind a huge toxic waste dump in Bhopal before they left the country. The company was later acquired by Dow Chemical Company which manufactured ‘Agent Orange’ – the chemical used by the US in Vietnam war.

Globalization. Who cares about the poor Indian factory workers anyway ? Government of India too covered up the issue partially to avoid a bad name.

Bhopal’s soil and water are poisoned forever. The children born there are cursed forever. I think of the cockroaches and mosquitoes we poison to death everyday.

Sashi Tharoor is the only guy in the Congress camp whom I wished should win in the 2009 Lok Sabha Polls. He won from Thiruvananthapuram where I was born.

I know him through his articles in “The Hindu – Sunday Magazine”. I like his sensible style of speech. I like him for his open and honest opinion about our nation. I like his optimism.

I have very high hopes from him as MP and whatever responsibility he shoulders. I even think his future performance as MP can easily catapult him to national politics. He is the kind of guy I would love to vote for. Even as PM.

I happened to read Shashi Tharoor’s blog, where I saw an amazing level of reader participation. He even asks the readers to suggest ideas that he could use ! Do take a look at the blog to feel positive about the future of India.

>Are we addicted to urban life ?
Are n’t hours of daily commuting to office in hellish traffic reason enough to move back to small towns ?

Are n’t cities killing the earth ? Is n’t your city life killing your natural state of being ?
But town life is so slow moving… It lacks energy… The world looks so small there…

When the world ‘outside’ you becomes uncomplicated, the world ‘inside’ you gets a chance to bloom.

OK, let me go back to the world that I created a few minutes back… Listening to New Age music(from www.shoutcast.com) while reading about Ancient Religious Myths(links work in Internet Explorer).