The other day, I finally gave in to the vociferous publicizing of Season
3 of Bigg Boss by none other than the big Mr Bachchan himself.
Curled-up under a soft bedspread with a mug of hot coffee, I lay
watching as the inmates of the the Bigg Boss house tore my patience to
pieces with their incessant whining and downright obnoxious squabbles.
So it's been six days of climate talks in Bangkok now. The optimists were hoping they would end with a strong committment to fight climate change from world governments. The pessimists have won this round.
India's very own Barefoot College is one of 12 BBC World Challenge finalists.
The barefoot college trains low-income women from all over the world to make solar lanterns.... Economically uplifting and socially responsible all at once!
This week, I attended a conference on climate change hosted by a Delhi-based think tank. They'd invited spokesmen from the Congress and the BJP. The Congress chap didn't show up. The BJP guy did. He should've saved himself the embarrassment.
“I know what they want from me.. They want a Why.. Maybe a What”
In this day and age of being different, of being individualistic, of defeating the herd mentality and charting one’s own path - I stand ironically alone in being painfully normal…just plain.
At the outset, I should say that I'm the furthest thing from a right-winger. I'm not too much of a socialist either. (Infact, according to Political Compass, I'm a 'centrist' Libertarian left).
Hans Rosling clearly spends time thinking about the world we live in. He's Swedish, he's a doctor and he has an infectious love for statistics (not the boring kind!).
