Category: Us people

  • Council of Canadians announces Economic Boycott of Nestlé

    CLICK HERE to sign Council of Canadians pledge to not buy bottled water or Nestle products. You’ll feel better and so will I. [Note: this is not the first Nestlé boycott. As a sociologist fri… Source: Council of Canadians announces Economic Boycott of Nestlé

  • Mahabali cannot be Dwarfed.

    As we were driving down from Panaji, to Margao I saw this banner that said, 37%  Goan have votes AAP, 27%BJP, and some X% congress, the conclusion was AAP leads, what occurred to me, is it could also be interpreted as 63% Goans are clear that they do not want AAP. Ultimately every story is…

  • confluence

    confluence

    We were standing in the recreation room of International center, as we looked over, there was this shanty built at the dead end with broken bricks and available wood, the other corner was an open washing area where dishes and clothes were washed, the water from this was let out into the open side walk…

  • International Day Of Charity

    International Day Of Charity

    International day of charity, I remember seeing this beautiful posters of Audrey Hepburn in sepia tones  one that said, “For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through…

  • The Informal Entrepreneur

    When we were in college we enacted a play, called the Kathe-swamy or the Ass-Seer, it was a tale of a dhobi whose only friend his donkey dies, and dhobi buries the donkey puts a head stone on it, one day a drunken unlucky prince falls over it, from the next day onwards his fortune…

  • International Day against Nuclear Testing.

    International Day against Nuclear Testing.

    29th August is the International day against Nuclear Tests created by UN.  This was declared in the 2nd December 2009 session through the resolution that deals with effects of nuclear tests. The entire concept was to galvanize the banning of nuclear tests. This is achieved through symposiums, seminars, exhibition competition etc. Yet an random thought…