This clip was taken from my window..!! At bright 11 AM, the street lights are on, and then we are given dose of 'electricity saving' by MSEB. Hopefully someone conveys this message to someone responsible.
It was just a couple of days back, at the Juventus Arena, Juve were playing out an embarrassing draw against Lazio. Conte then decided to sub in Del Piero for the last few minutes. A free-kick was awarded at the edge of the box- though not in the best of shooting ranges. Pirlo and Del Piero came over it…and Del Piero cannoned the ball across the face of the wall which took the Lazio goalkeeper for a daze and the ball was in the back of the net. The goal was the winner, worthy of 3 points and Juventus were back in the race for the scudetto . The goal fired up not only the scudetto race but also another long lasting debate- should Del Piero stay another year at Juve? Earlier in the season, Juventus management had quite absurdly announced that this season would be Del Piero’s final one and he would ply his trade outside Turin once he is done with it. It didn’t surprise many Juve fans at that time, since the 37 year old had done his job at the club, not only did he cement his position...
I admit that i switched off my tv-set almost 3/4th way into the show. But from whatever I have seen, these are my conclusion/readings: 1. In Urban areas (amounts to 35%) along with semi-urban, like towns or talukas, i think the problem of 'untouchability' is negligible or nearly zero. Even if there might be a few orthodox people, the majority of the villagers would have subdued it. Brahmins constitute less than 4% of the Indian population!! My village and places where my cousins live don’t face the problem. The problem, if it really exists is only in rural or “khed gavs”. I have not seen untouchability in my life!! But have heard my grandparents talk about it. I think looking at the rate of urbanization and education, this problem will slowly get eradicated. 2. About the priest talking like this, it would be a gross miscalculation if that was to be generalized. I think less than 0.1% Brahmins would accept his views. Secondly, there is no written/scientific proof of wha...
(Please note this article/thesis’ sanity remains constrained only in India and applicable only to Indians.) In India, an Indian is either a Hindu, or a Muslim, or a Christian, or a Jain or a Buddhist….. or a Secularist. And India is a Secular country. My title, ain’t so thought provoking. It’s simple, you cannot be or at least not claim to be, a Hindu/Muslim (etc.) and secularist at the same time. The word secular was interpolated in our constitution by an amendment in 1976. I remember saying this to one of my secular friend who chided me for using jargons like amendment and interpolation. To answer him I have to say that these are matchless words which best describe the situation. Amendment is a change made to the constitution by a parliamentary bill/order. Interpolation is an addition/append made to the constitutional literacy. It means the word secular wasn’t mentioned in the constitution by the constitution framers, dated back to late 40’s. My point of argument is th...
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