Some
thoughts and some feelings, all mine:
Like emotions
are riding high. Supreme Court in the Campa Cola case intervened suo motu [on
one’s own initiative], and Sachin retired from Cricket. The latter is not
exactly that way.
Like Truth
and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa did a splendid work. Why it was
not tried in Sri Lanka?
Like people
object if Bharat Ratna is awarded to a forty year old; and they also object
when it is given to a 90 year old like Bhimsen Joshi! So what’s the right age
for BR?
Like the
Bharat Ratna Mr CNR Rao called politicians ‘idiots.’ We agree and wonder if Mr
Rao is master of understatements.
Like I have
not really understood what I get by tweeting. But admitting it publicly is
making me feel old.
Like if
things suddenly start moving fast, then it must be election time.
Like the
latest fashion among political leaders is to buy a doctorate and put ‘Dr.’
before his name. And these doctors are constantly in search of Vitamin ‘M.’
Like
Switzerland’s decision on CEO pay [twelve times the lowest paid worker’s pay]
is a good move; in India the salaries of lowest paid employee are exploitative.
Like the
University of Kansas suggests that depending on the sex of the speaker,
language with grammatical gender may be interpreted and understood differently
among listeners. Isn’t this everyday experience, why do you require research to
know the obvious?
And finally
this: A study shows that the government in India attracts corrupt youngsters
like a magnet. Perhaps the converse is also true; it is confusion between cause
and effect.
Vivek