These Indians are Crazy!

When I was a kid, one of the many things I wanted to be when I grew up was an auto driver who wouldn't charge one and a half meter. Obviously that never panned out cause you can't get a license to drive an auto-rickshaw unless you sign a contract saying you will surely charge one and half at least thrice a day.

I would have liked riding recklessly in an auto, swerving throughtraffic. I would put up one of those cool lines on the back of my rickshaw, like
"Trust a snake but never trust a woman"
Or
"Live like Moula Ali
Die like Moula Hussain"

Ha!

Last afternoon I was in one of these aforementioned crazy vehicles when we zipped past a truck that transported various kinds of fixtures from lights and fans to geysers and the like. The company was called Parmanand Fixtures. I don't know if that was deliberate.

Meanwhile on M.G. Road anti-Hu Jintao protests were bringing traffic proceedings to a halt (my auto-wallah still managed to get me through to my destination). Our mongoloid friends from neighbouring Tibet had gathered to demand their freedom from China's communist wiles.

Yesterday was also National Disaster Reduction Day. I wonder if they have a committee to come up with these 'special days'. To promote Disaster awareness and reduction there were banners and hoardings all across M.G. Road, with such catchy lines as "Develop will to survive and help others in case of disaster"
But shouldn't we be trying to ensure that the disaster doesn't occur rather than remedy an accident with will power?

Across one of these disastrous hoardings was another banner "Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India not China." And yet another that said "Negotiations with China is dangerous for India." One is reminded of Nehru's famous quote - "India China Bye Bye"

Well anyways I'm off to Kushalnagar this weekend to see the monastery. If the monks have started an online trading portal it would be called monk e-business.

Question of the day: Hu stole the cookie from the cookie jar?