Hail Pakistan!

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"The present government is moving away from the path of democracy, moving towards the path of making the country a Hindu religious autocracy just like Pakistan"

...DC Page 14 Friday 30 October 2015



gps: How nice that Pakistan has become a Hindu religious autocracy!





...Posted by Ishani

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Old Age Gold Age

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Old age is like coffee. Tastes bitter at first but addictive later on.

Let me first list things that I thoroughly enjoy nowadays.

Without doubt I am blessed to live in the company of my son, D-i-L, and little Ishani. Just watching them is joy.

I enjoy driving my toy car here and there. Without it, I would have been home-bound since I can't walk much.

I enjoy the apartment I live in now. It is just the right distance from the polluted city and is at a height on a hill. It is full of sunshine and breeze.

I enjoy my new eye-sight. I was going blind with cataracts in both eyes. My son and his wife compelled me to undergo the surgery which I was scared of. Without it I would have been a gone case.

There are pains here and there but I enjoy the intervals of no pain. I enjoy my reasonably good general health.

I enjoy the running water in the taps when it is there and the power when it is there.

Yes, I enjoy my pension. Without it, there would have been a feeling that I am financially a burden too. Otherwise the little money in the bank means nothing to me.

I enjoy the freedom from travel. I hated travel but I had to travel all my working life.

That brings me to the freedom from work. No one expects me to work. 

I enjoy the freedom from compulsive reading and blogging which tied me down till recently.

As it is, I enjoy reading the Deccan Chronicle and Times of India and the tidbits that I come across and share with my few readers.

I enjoy the little food I eat and the many tea cups I sip.

I enjoy sitting idle thinking nothing serious...just marking time.

Memory fails but it is fun to try and recall a name. Often it takes days.

Sure, there are things I miss.

Often I miss my wife although it is more than 3 years since she passed away.

And I miss my long years of chain-smoking as a bachelor. The urge to resume it is always there to be fought.

The greatest freedom for me is the complete absence of the lousy sex hormones which rule most of our lives...BLISS!  

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...Posted by Ishani

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Driver ka salah chor!

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"RKD, in his complaint, said that he suspected his wife Mo, son Ra, driver Muthu and his brother-in-law KB for the missing cash and gold"

...DC Page 5 Thursday 29 October 2015





...Posted by Ishani

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Last Laugh

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"$20m. VC and PS had an OTT 10-day wedding in 2006. Guests from 26 countries were ferried around on chartered jets. The couple have divorced."

...ToI Page 17 Sunday Times 25 October 2015 




...Posted by Ishani

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Beefy Matters

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"Kerala denies serving beef...State's chief secretary says only buffalo meat is served in House canteen"

...DC Page 9 Headline Wednesday 28 October 2015





gps:

Ms. Buffalo and Dr. Crow

Once upon a time a Ms. Buffalo

Lay ruminating on a cheerful meadow.

The sun was slowly sinking in the west

And peace and drowsiness reigned in her breast.

Soon she heard bells, drum beats and songs

And there was a white cow with decorated horns.

Such pangs of jealousy in her heart grew

That Ms. Buffalo could no more chew.

“Oh, they adore her as the Goddess of Wealth

While taunting me as the Vehicle of Death!

Why! Her milk has no more protein

Nor my manure any less methane.

Yet laws get passed against her slaughter

As if she solely were the Nation’s daughter.”

Oh! How such thoughts did rack and rack!

Till a supple crow landed on her back.

http://gpsastry.blogspot.in/2014/11/ms-buffalo-dr-crow-repeat-telecast.html



...Posted by Ishani

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DC's Agni Pravesh

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"Chain-snatchers prompt traffic police to crackdown on vehicle owners"

...DC Page 7 Crime Page Monday 26 October 2015




gps: Ravanjee prompts Sriramjee to ask Sitajee to jump into Agnijee.

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...Posted by Ishanijee

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Thought Constraints of DC

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"Hyderabad: Budget constraints and limited resources are two reasons why Kolkata's Durga Puja pandals are grander than local ones"

...DC Page 2 Monday 26 October 2015





gps:

"Short and crooked tails are the two reasons why golden langurs are grander than pig-tailed macaques"

golden langur

http://www.wheretowatchbirdsandotherwildlifeintheworld.co.uk/images/goldenlangur650.jpg

scroll down please!

pig-tailed macaque

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...Posted by Ishani

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Amaravati Egg

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"It was nice to see Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Telengana state sharing the dais during the stone-laying ceremony for AP's new capital Amaravati"

...DC Page 10 Saturday 24 October 2015

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...Posted by Ishani

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GPS

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"For instance, no truck carrying the rice bags has GPS"

...DC Page 8 Saturday 24 October 2015




...Posted by Ishani 

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Jarring Journalese

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"The two (housewives) were relieved of seven tolas of gold ornaments"

...DC Page 8 Saturday 24 October 2015

gps: Oh! What a relief!

...Posted by Ishani

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Radiopathy

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"Tokyo: A former Fukushima nuclear plant worker has been diagnosed with radiation-linked cancer, Japanese officials said..."

...ToI Page 15 Wednesday October 21, 2015



gps: Prolonged exposure to radiation from nuclear plants causes cancer. And to treat it they give prolonged radiation from nuclear medicine...much like in homeopathy...there is only dubious evidence that they work...






...Posted by Ishani

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Boiling Kids

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"Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet feels computers distract children at home and has banned them from her house"

...DC Banner Headline Page 14 Thursday 22 October 2015




gps: Sorry for Kate's children whom she banned from her house...

....like that canonical sentence:


"If your kid refuses to drink raw milk boil it"




...Posted by Ishani

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Late Kate

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"Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet feels computers distract children at home and has banned them from her house"

...DC Banner Headline Page 14 Thursday 22 October 2015




gps: To be replaced with smart phones:

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...Posted by Ishani (who handles 3 smart phones changing their passwords)

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Population Implosion

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"Rangchhingapuli (dies at 104) and her husband late R. Zobela (Mizoram), a church leader, had ten children, 42 grand-children, 102 great grand children and 45 great great grand children."

...DC Page 8 Thursday 22 October 2015



gps: No big news. If you examine the figures closely, the fertility rate has been steadily declining in Mizoram, sadly.





...Posted by Ishani

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Peedom of Religion

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Religious symbols painted on the walls of Mehidipatnam in a bid to curb the menace of public urination---DECCAN CHRONICLE

"Spitting hasn't stopped on these walls, neither has littering or urination"

...DC Page 2 Thursday 22 October 2015 



gps: On the other hand, the symbols seem to urge peers to line up in segregated queues according to their religious inclinations...

...much like mute toilet symbols:

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...Posted by Ishani

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Commalaziness

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"The dusty town of Amaravati will regain the 'capital' status it had lost 18 centuries ago when Prime Minister Narendra Modi..."

...ToI Front Page News Thursday October 22,2015



gps: Didn't know Modi is so old...



  
...Posted by Ishani

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Nostalgia is Nice

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As I get older (and my 74th birthday is now close), I get deeper and deeper into nostalgia. I do not fight this, because nostalgia seems to me to be rational. Things really aren't what they once were.  "But people have always said that," is often the response. Yes, and for the most part, I maintain people have always been right.



gps: Well, that is not me speaking. It is a quote from N.M. Gwynne, author of Gwynne's Grammar. Typical excerpt from the book:

"She is washing in boiling water yesterday's washing in the washing machine that she uses for washing clothes."

What parts of speech (including the grammatical part of any verb) are "boiling" and each instance of "washing"?


...The Spectator in DC Page 14 Wednesday 21 October 2015


  


...Posted by Ishani

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Green Whsikers

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On the 17th of October there was this Letter to the Editor of DC:

COVER JEWELLERY

It is advisable for women to cover their jewellery while going through isolated places.When the gold chains are not visible, the question of snatching them does not arise.

Mohammed Abdul Aleem 

Hyderabad

gps: 

But I was thinking of a plan

    To dye one's whiskers green,

And always use so large a fan

    That they could not be seen.

...Lewis Carroll

("Through the Looking Glass")

Posted by Ishani

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Police Memo

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"BEWARE OF THIEVES, COPS TELL PEOPLE"

...DC Page 2 Headline, Wednesday 21 October 2015




gps: What a Wonderful Suggestion!...Thank you!...Enjoy the festive season!






Posted by Ishani

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