Learning and Unlearning of Dr.Jekyll and Madam Hyde.
Third Sunday of every year is the day to remember victims of road accidents. This is an united nations observation and not a holiday. Some key factors of road accidents. Approximately 1.35million people die each year as a result of road traffic accidents. In India 53 road accidents happen every hour killing 17 people. Goa …
When we talk corruption, a non performing government we are talking of a corrupt population and a society that takes pride is getting away with non performance. Just last evening there was someone who had come to discuss something with MrD. on their way out, they chanced on me working on something, The younger of …
We do our morning walks very purposefully before the traffic. If we do reside at place where the traffic does not let up then we drive in our SUV’s to the thata-paati park and walk, yet we have abandonded this in our daily life. maybe it is a good idea to teach our kids to …
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i-walk This morning as I was riding my bike down to the Kala Academy at Goa, a teenage kid from the college near by just dashed on, almost knocking me and my bike. She of course swore rather pathetically, at that moment I was nasty I told her, “if she wanted to die she should …
Parking on the footpath. Vendors hogging the footpath Bullying auto drivers Are parts of the great Indian civic society. We live and survive through it. The next level of this is-- the motorists who break the traffic rules. Most of the offenders don’t stop when signalled, and then there are few diligent ones who do …
I am at Bangalore for the “Sheroes summit.” Enroute from JPnagar to Brigade road, I was to pick up an auto. Last month when I was here, the auto drivers were relieved that cargo trucks were banned from 8am -8pm. Well I did see them around. This time round the Banglore police apparently has come …
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