Monday, March 27, 2006
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
Alisha Asks - 001
This has the potential to be a completely new spin-off blog site of its own. But for now, I'll skip the earlier questions shes already asked, and start afresh.
The conversation went like this other day :
Alisha : Papa why does the Sun go to sleep so early ?
Self : What do you mean ?
Alisha : I mean the Sun goes to sleep as soon as it becomes dark, I'm still playing when it goes to sleep.
( What she means is that after night-fall she is still awake and playing while the Sun is allegedly asleep )
Self : Uhh...mmmm *thinks for 2 minutes* Thats because Nature made it this way.
Alisha : What is nature ?
Self : Nature is all the things around us, the trees, animals, birds, fish, moon, stars and sun.
Alisha : * thinks for a few seconds *..... The Sun is part of nature and so it made itself like that ?
Self : Uh..mm I guess so
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Each time she asks me these tough questions, it makes me realise how some concepts we take for granted as adults, and when you question some basic assumptions it produces some very interesting possiblities.
Eg if there we accept that the world we see around us is the Divine force manifested, the question is why would it manifest itself ? To what ultimate purpose ?
And in the same train of thought, yesterday while watching some movie where there was a villainous character who was behaving badly, and Alisha asked me : "Papa, God made that naughty man also ?"
To which i muttered some vague response and tried to change the subject.
What would be a good idea is if all the parents in the world got together and kept adding to a mass respository of tough questions from their kids, as well as with what could be suitable responses to them.
Now theres an idea for a path-breaking intiative on the net.
Something on the lines of http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
Only with some kind of Q&A
The conversation went like this other day :
Alisha : Papa why does the Sun go to sleep so early ?
Self : What do you mean ?
Alisha : I mean the Sun goes to sleep as soon as it becomes dark, I'm still playing when it goes to sleep.
( What she means is that after night-fall she is still awake and playing while the Sun is allegedly asleep )
Self : Uhh...mmmm *thinks for 2 minutes* Thats because Nature made it this way.
Alisha : What is nature ?
Self : Nature is all the things around us, the trees, animals, birds, fish, moon, stars and sun.
Alisha : * thinks for a few seconds *..... The Sun is part of nature and so it made itself like that ?
Self : Uh..mm I guess so
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Each time she asks me these tough questions, it makes me realise how some concepts we take for granted as adults, and when you question some basic assumptions it produces some very interesting possiblities.
Eg if there we accept that the world we see around us is the Divine force manifested, the question is why would it manifest itself ? To what ultimate purpose ?
And in the same train of thought, yesterday while watching some movie where there was a villainous character who was behaving badly, and Alisha asked me : "Papa, God made that naughty man also ?"
To which i muttered some vague response and tried to change the subject.
What would be a good idea is if all the parents in the world got together and kept adding to a mass respository of tough questions from their kids, as well as with what could be suitable responses to them.
Now theres an idea for a path-breaking intiative on the net.
Something on the lines of http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
Only with some kind of Q&A
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Breaking News
In a recent unrecorded conversation with this correspondent, the infamous Amphibian-turned-Rapper ( Shri MNM ) has claimed that there are some people who seek to defame him by releasing semi-clad photographs of his on the internet .
He rules out no one -
Rival east coast rapper Gangly-Girubhai, his associates, and perhaps even *gasp !* ... his close friends !
......." these people will stop at nothing for money, we live in times of grave moral depravity." ......... he says.
He is determined to seek legal re-dressal, which is ironic considering his state of dress in the pictures; and is willing to take the fight to The Max.
Did i just hear you say : "Who is The Max ? " . . . . .
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
The Ides of March
The Ides
( Pronounced as I-dz, I as in "eye" and dz as in "Pizza" )
Each month in the ancient Roman calendar had an "ides."
In the months of March, May, July and October, the "ides" fell on the 15th day.
in the other months the "ides" fell on the 13th.
The word was derived from the Latin "to divide", and was originally meant to mark the full moon - but since the lengths of the solar calendar months and lunar months differed , the "Ides" quickly lost their original intent and purpose.
Today, is the 13th of March. The 15th of March will be HOLI
........which brings me back to the Anu Malik song from the Amitabh-Akshay starrer WAQT - "Do me a favour lets play Holi". If you havent heard it, you must. Its the most stoned and outrageous Holi song to emerge since the much ragdaoed - "Rang barse" from SIL-SILA.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Meanwhile, Deepa says she has some guy in her NY office whose name is - Pietruszkiewicz
I mean isnt that like some kind of Slovakian term for a Petrol Station or something ?....
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
And Alisha asked me this morning - " Papa why is Honey sticky ? "
Which I thought was quite a brilliant question, and it had me thinking for a while.
And so this month's contest will be about who posts the the best answers to that question in the comments section of this.
Winners get a Kilo bottle of Wild Honey from Medak forest.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
( Pronounced as I-dz, I as in "eye" and dz as in "Pizza" )
Each month in the ancient Roman calendar had an "ides."
In the months of March, May, July and October, the "ides" fell on the 15th day.
in the other months the "ides" fell on the 13th.
The word was derived from the Latin "to divide", and was originally meant to mark the full moon - but since the lengths of the solar calendar months and lunar months differed , the "Ides" quickly lost their original intent and purpose.
Today, is the 13th of March. The 15th of March will be HOLI
........which brings me back to the Anu Malik song from the Amitabh-Akshay starrer WAQT - "Do me a favour lets play Holi". If you havent heard it, you must. Its the most stoned and outrageous Holi song to emerge since the much ragdaoed - "Rang barse" from SIL-SILA.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Meanwhile, Deepa says she has some guy in her NY office whose name is - Pietruszkiewicz
I mean isnt that like some kind of Slovakian term for a Petrol Station or something ?....
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
And Alisha asked me this morning - " Papa why is Honey sticky ? "
Which I thought was quite a brilliant question, and it had me thinking for a while.
And so this month's contest will be about who posts the the best answers to that question in the comments section of this.
Winners get a Kilo bottle of Wild Honey from Medak forest.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Reliance Retail
The amazingly crazy incident, where I was idly thinking about the upcoming Reliance Retail project in the morning, and receving a phone call from the same person at 4 oclock the same evening asking whether I would be interested and whether he should do something. [ Friday 10 March 2006 ]
Spooky rating = 9 / 10
Spooky rating = 9 / 10
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)