Friday, October 30, 2015

Easiest Way to Develop India?!!



Easiest Way to Develop India?!!



There are two ways.

1. Easy Way. Develop in showing-off. Go around proclaiming what great things India was going to achieve; how India's achievements would make her the world's leading nation.

For such development...no work is needed. Only a thick skin. And a big mouth.

2. Hard Way. Keep mouths shut, plan with expert advice, and do whatever is necessary in the long-haul work to improve conditions in the country.


Of course, the first way is far far far far far far far far far far far far far far.....easier!

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Dreamy Tail-Lights:

New India Theme
A Revolutionary Theme, the people's inspired March to an Ek Desh India, lights up Dreams of One Country by Jagjit (and John Daniel). You can check it out on Amazon.com. If the theme of transforming India into a truly modern nation appeals to you, download the novel on any device - I-phone, pad or computer.


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Sunday, October 18, 2015

India's Thrilled Globe-Jetters

India's Thrilled Globe-Jetters



In the age of globalization is India becoming a global leader at jet speed?
Anyone of any importance in the country (i.e. anyone who doesn't have to worry about the fares, including business honchos) are busy globalizing India by jetting around the globe. They are so busy they don't have time to unpack their travel bags. They keep constantly checking airline schedules to discover potential new destinations. What about Iceland? they wonder. Or Greenland? Will the welcome be warmer in Serbia...or Bosnia? Overall they are certain their frequent appearances in global capitals will establish the idea that India is now in the forefront of globalized development. Wherever they land, they compulsively collect piles of paper mementos - which they add to the piles of garbage in the home country. They fail to notice that people abroad are actually more than a bit tired seeing those smug, permanently-grinning  faces every few days. In fact our champion nonstop world tourists are so determined to make India a global leader they have no time to spare for (or, maybe, it's the easiest way to avoid facing) realities back home...poverty, hunger, systemic corruption, divisiveness, bigotry etc.

By constantly jetting to show up and off around the globe. they feel they are patriotically proving that India is a global leader - a feeling that surely leaves them happy. Thrilled! Oh, deliriously thrilled!

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Brando's Indian Star Wife


Brando's Indian Star Wife

Anna Kashfi, born as Joan O'Callaghan in the northern hill resort of Darjeeling in 1934, was yet another girl who sailed away from India to seek fame in Hollywood.

Throughout her life she insisted that William O'Callaghan (who worked in the Indian Railways) was her stepfather, that her real parents were a Devi Kashfi and Selma Ghose. Some reports suggest she had decided the best way to succeed in Hollywood was to hitch on to a big star...and that's how she met Brando in the commissary (restaurant) of a Hollywood studio.

Marlon Brando had made the big time with A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront. He came from Lee Strasberg's Method School of Acting in New York. (James Dean and Al Pacino are among notable alumni of the School) which taught students to act out emotions without getting emotional, underplaying roles to create a powerful effect.


Marlon fell for Anna's dusky, exotic looks. She became his first wife. But their marriage was shortlived, tempestuous. They fought bitterly over custody of their son Christian Brando. Anna's brief Hollywood career was cut short by drug and alcohol problems. She died, aged 80, in August 2015.

Among her movies are The Mountain (1956) with Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner and Battle Hymn with Rock Hudson. In Night of the Quarter Moon (1959) she plays the African-American wife of the renowned singer Nat 'King' Cole.

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Dreamy Tail-Lights:

New India Theme
A Revolutionary Theme, the people's inspired March to an Ek Desh India, lights up Dreams of One Country by Jagjit (and John Daniel). You can easily check it out on Amazon.com. If a transforming India theme appeals to you, venture to download the novel on any device - I-phone, pad or computer.


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Saturday, October 10, 2015

India Needs MindQuakes, 1

A Blog begun years ago as a stroll on the Funny Side of Serious Street, highlighting India's problems. Revived now by adding memories of old Bombay, including excerpts from Dreams of One Country.


NewIndia Needs MindQuakes, 1

Change is inevitable. And change is necessary to build NewIndia.
Thinking must change. Mindsets must change. First, for example, a NewIndia will no longer be a country where a common idea is....

To grab whatever one can get away with - whether it's part of a pavement or other public use space, or government-owned land or a neighbour's property. Grabbing often starts with an encroachment that, if unresisted, grows in ambition. Cheating, lying, bribing and other deceits - in the process of grabbing - are taken as proof of one's own smartness. As for ease of bribing, there are any number of officials (uniformed and un-uniformed) who consider it their own smartness to be able to bend or break any rule or law and thus add to their daily take in bribes. And, worse, among those who wield power you'll find those who loot the most and get away.

The whole grabbing business indicates a failure of basic ethical values.

No country that runs short on ethical values can be truly modern and developed - an enlightened nation.

NewIndia will be a country of people committed to ethical values. 
        
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Tail-Lights:
New India Theme
A Revolutionary Theme, the people's inspired March to an Ek Desh India, lights up Dreams of One Country by Jagjit (and John Daniel). You can easily check it out on Amazon.com. If a transforming India theme appeals to you, venture to download the novel on any device - I-phone, pad or computer.