Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: Rhythm Indiana

  • about Nationalism

    Modi talks about being a Hindu Nationalist, logic being he is a nationalist yet a practising Hindu. Let’s not discuss about who is a Hindu. Digvijaya says he should say Indian Nationalist. Digvijay is of course known to suffer from Footinthemouth disease though of milder degree than Ms.Jaya Bacchan. We talk of religion and the…

  • Roll to Rajasthan

    Franklin Templeton Investmentspartnered the TEDxGateway Mumbai in December 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Dn868I8RQ#at=370 listening to Cynthia passionately dedicated to the cause of water management. I am impressed. I am also taken back to the days of seventies, when we went to our mother’s  ancestral village for our summer sojourn  water was an issue, of course we kids never…

  • Seasoning life with seasons.

    Rtu samhara, the cycles of season, or rtushringara the romance of season.  That is what it all about cycles, decay and rebirth.  In Sanskrit poetry seasons are entwined with love, both erotic and divine. They are parallel and interwoven. Vasanta spring, the eternal companion of the Kamadev, the lord of love, adorned with flowers and…

  • The Giant and the ant.

    At the end of the day, it for us the citizens to ensure that our systems work. Lets face it I is easy to blame Pakistan for our terrorist troubles, which in itself is pitiful, after we are Giant, and Pakistan is a piddly little state. Yet we succumb to the irritation. The entire sarbjit,…

  • hyderabad blast– who killed jack robbins?

    Blasts in Hyderabad.. Two powerful bombs blast simultaneously ripping through a crowded area close to the bus-stop at Dilsukh nagar near Hyderabad on Thursday. The police claim involvement of the Indian mujahideen terror group. 16 dead, 117 injured and at least six in critical condition. The home minister sounds like the little kid at school,…

  • Little to celebrate about.

     January 26th 2013 is history, the annual republic day parade over. I don’t know if there was a presidential address, or a prime-minister’s talk, the ‘P’in both cases is deliberate, the offices have lost their sanctity. At our toastmasters meet the theme was Republic day what the Toastmaster of the day threw out introductions from…