Musings of an Idiot

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Nothing much happening. Body still coping and recovering from the sore throat - which still feels really sore.

Lost our netball game 30-22 and it wasn't a great feeling losing that game. We got trashed in the last 2 quarters. I got to look at the full DVD cover design from the US distributor. The front cover is good but i had my reservations with the back cover and sent back suggestions - hopefully they will take them to improve the back cover.

Finished reading a 10-part mini series from Marvel comics called 'Foolkiller' and it is a fascinating read and is a fantastic series. I looked up the net to find the background on the series and it turns out that Kurt Gerhardt -the man who assumes the identity of Foolkiller, is the third foolkiller after Ross Everbest and Greg Salinger. Surprisingly, it is hard to find a copy to buy online - try it. Also finished another mini-series 'Challengers of the Unknown must Die!' and it was again a good reimagining of the superhero genre and takes it a step further. Again - a highly enjoyable experience and definitely recommended reading.

I started browsing the online edition of 'Times of India' - one of the leading newspapers in India and found it depressing. Amongst the headlines I read under Delhi {the city I lived in most of my life} were - 'Betting racket busted in Delhi, 4 held' ; ' Neighbours stone dairy owner to death' ; 'Woman stabbed to death in Delhi'; 'Power theft worth Rs 2.5 crore' ; 'Malviya Nagar gets onto street' {for lack of water supply and the authorities not listening to them} ; 'Hope dries up for Dwarka residents' {another water related problem}; 'Power trip: Hopper collapses at IP station' {after the power station was supposed to be modernized from 2004 and no action has yet been taken}; 'Cops let off thieves we caught: VK residents' ; 'Cheats obtain Rs 2-cr loan fraudulently, held' ...... and those were just some of the news items I read. All I can read is inaptitude, fear, failure and complacency - and people wonder why I am cynical about India's future.... If this is happening in a major city then think of the plight of what a common indian living in one of the smaller cities, towns, villages would be like. I keep saying it again and again that for India to succeed as a country, as a society - the mindset of the people needs to be changed. The underlying need is for change - in attitutude, in behaviour, in thinking - I don't mean to say that one should westernize or adopt a different culture but even just to function as a normal human being calls for some ground rules that shouldn't be violated. There is too much corruption, blame-shifting and bull shit going around, which effectively drowns out any good work being done by any small groups of individuals. There needs to be accountability in the society- an accountability which doesn't exist at this stage.

On the other side you have news items like 'Spiritual outsourcing' - an excerpt of which is as follows:
" Since the West probably calls the lord as often as it calls Citibank, it’s only natural that India, the haven of cheap outsourcing must have a role in connecting first world Christians to their paradise. By offering five American dollars per holy mass, Western churches have been offloading special prayer requirements to Indian churches, especially to the several in Kerala."
Go figure that one....looks like religion is no longer about faith but about saving time and lifestyle.

I think I have had a big rant - I will shut up now. I am just an observer - looking at life to see where it leads me now.

Amit

posted by Amit @ 8:30 PM