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This is for the few, who actually want to know what runs in my head!
- Kaleya bale
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Reflect on this..
(English translitteration:
bAgiloLu kai mugidu oLage bA yAtrikane
Content shamelessly stolen from: http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/kantex/node3.html
shileyallavI guDiyu kaleya baleyu
kaMbaniya mAleyanu edeya baTTaloLiTTu
dhanyateya kusumagaLa arpisilli
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Monday April 23, 2007 - 11:30am (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Viva Futbol!
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I had a good time yesterday watching the Italy vs US world cup game. I watched a part of the first half at home and decided to get back to work. On the way, I bumped into these Comcast workers (Comcast is a cable TV company) who were watching the game on the sidewalks on Hoover. They had deployed a small TV in the back of their van and used their cable wire spools and cardboard boxes as makeshift chairs. We watched with much (well expressed) excitement as the 9 man US held 10-man Italy to a well-deserved draw. Oh and most of "us" were Latino-americans, one of was us was an african-american and one an Indian :). Nice.Sunday June 18, 2006 - 01:55pm (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Family (-Sidhu)
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My family and I at the Mysore zoo. Pretty sloppy pic eh. Well it's the best I have.Sunday March 19, 2006 - 06:35pm (PST) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - In India
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Gee I reached India today. Was an interesting flight- stopped over at Kuala Lumpur and went around the place for a couple of hours. KL is a nice clean place, somewhere between Bangalore and a prototypical American city in terms of sophistication, traffic, way it looks etc. Seeing two wheelers whizzing on the streets there, was a nice sight. I also made a couple of friends on the flight Tauseef and Abhishek who went with me on the tour- see I'm a social guy. The taxi driver who took us around KL, Asreef was a really warm chap, who would love to have 4 wives if he had more money (his religion allows this)!
But right now Im so jetlagged. I woke up frikkin early in the morning, felt sleepy and irritable the whole day. Everybody around me was all enthusiastic to see me and I was all grumpy- totally sad. Tried to sleep all day, finally fell asleep at 5 pm and woke at 9:30 pm. So, now my sleep cycle is going to take longer to repair :(.
And oh, I met my family after 3 years, my brother in law and 2 year old nephew Adi for the first time! Even in my semi-groginess I was all happy.
PS: Chai says I need to inject some sense-of-humor into my blogs! Thanks for reading kane..
Wednesday December 21, 2005 - 11:33am (PST) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Art, truth, Politics
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Just read a poignant, witty, disturbing and riveting nobel prize acceptance speech delivered by Harold Pinter. The guardian describes Pinter's speech as "excoriating a 'brutal, scornful and ruthless' United States". I think its more than a great read. If you are not the artsy type skip the first few paragraphs, to where he speaks about politics, US policy etc.
I will not spoil it by describing it in my own words but I want to quote some parts of the speech that seemed to standout.
(In Art) There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.'
the search for the truth can never stop. It cannot be adjourned, it cannot be postponed. It has to be faced, right there, on the spot....
Political language, as used by politicians, does not venture into any of this territory since the majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed...
But my contention here is that the US crimes in the same period (between WW2 and the end of cold war) have only been superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged, let alone recognised as crimes at all. I believe this must be addressed and that the truth has considerable bearing on where the world stands now. Although constrained, to a certain extent, by the existence of the Soviet Union, the United States' actions throughout the world made it clear that it had concluded it had carte blanche to do what it liked...
I put to you that the United States is without doubt the greatest show on the road. Brutal, indifferent, scornful and ruthless it may be but it is also very clever. As a salesman it is out on its own and its most saleable commodity is self love. It's a winner. Listen to all American presidents on television say the words, 'the American people', as in the sentence, 'I say to the American people it is time to pray and to defend the rights of the American people and I ask the American people to trust their president in the action he is about to take on behalf of the American people.'
..and then the brilliant Pablo Neruda poem:
And one morning all that was burning,
one morning the bonfires
leapt out of the earth
devouring human beings
and from then on fire,
gunpowder from then on,
and from then on blood.
Bandits with planes and Moors,
bandits with finger-rings and duchesses,
bandits with black friars spattering blessings
came through the sky to kill children
and the blood of children ran through the streets
without fuss, like children's blood.
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And you will ask: why doesn't his poetry
speak of dreams and leaves
and the great volcanoes of his native land.Come and see the blood in the streets.
Come and see
the blood in the streets.
Come and see the blood
in the streets! *Friday December 16, 2005 - 04:52pm (PST) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
