Lighter side of Paris Olympics 2024 ( Read more... )

To compare a soldier's duty and a common citizen's difficulty is not apt. A soldier signs on for specific duties which includes defending his country. A common citizen does not sign on for such hardships...s/he is forced to face them ( Read more... )

Driving through Madhya Pradesh, in colours ( Read more... )

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In every chess game, it is the pawns who get sacrificed first, and then, maybe, some of the others up the heirarchy ( Read more... )

Yes, I know I have plenty of Linkoping posts to catch up on, but a couple of days ago, PC and I had been to "Biltema", where he buys a lot of cycle stuff. I'd looked at a folding bike (with longing) and at the price tag (with revulsion...at 2190 SEK, the revulsion was strong ( Read more... )

I'm just going to say it with flowers...!


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It's been one hundred years since the

Indian National Anthem

was written.

Here is the translation, in Rabindranath Tagore's own hand:


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On Independence Day, I found that almost every auto had a Tiranga flying:


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Sometimes I feel that patriotism, or its negative form, jingoism, causes a lot of strife in this world. We are , I think, now so interconnected that surely we don't belong to just ONE country any more? I feel just as comfortable in Europe or the US or in Africa, because I do feel that people are the same everywhere...it's just that customs may ( Read more... )