Thursday, June 26, 2008
it's so good to be blogging
wheee. now i finally have an outlet to publish all the thoughts that have been full to bursting inside me.
fine print
Fine print
The place where we search for those significant little things shoved in insignificant little corners.
An outlet for all the random things that I like to ruminate (finally), in the true tradition of blogs.
The major reason why it took me so long to open a blog was because I tried to find out what is to be written in a blog. After a lot of research ( ok, a couple of google searches), I have come to a conclusion that a blog can be about anything under the sun. which is exactly what this blog is going to be about. Unedited and unrestrained.
As for the title, well that’s another story I’ll tell when I am in the right frame of mind.
One thing that really creeps me out in the world is so many vested interests in all the things we come across. Sometimes I feel like crying out loud where is the justice, where is the fairness in the world.
I recently read in the newspapers that a major American tobacco company is sponsoring research projects at an American university under an agreement which gives it a right to stop the university from making any research related to adverse effects of tobacco use public. This is so wrong. Tobacco kills. In the worst way possible, claiming lives not only of the users but also of those who are exposed to second hand smoke. It is bad enough that the companies make money by selling such products. They profit on people’s addiction, their ill health and diseases, their miseries and woes. It is even worse that they are withholding such vital information from the public. They don’t even let their consumers know what they are doing to themselves and others through their action.
I am glad that Delhi University has become a smoke free zone. I hope that all public places in Delhi become smoke free zones. We need to have a zero tolerance policy against that to safeguard the interests and health of non-smokers. It was shocking to learn that second-hand smoke is one of the leading causes of lung cancer among non-smokers. I see no reason to allow smoking in public places. It is like killing a section of a population for no fault of theirs just because of the selfish pleasure of the smokers and profits of the cigarette industry. It just makes me fume (pun unintended).
And now my mind is blank. I guess this is what they call a writer’s block. My mind was overflowing with creative juices which have been sucked dry. I had so many things to write, so much stuff to give which suddenly has been wiped out the moment I sit in front of the computer. Hmmm.
I saw rang de basanti recently. I can see injustice everywhere around me but I wonder of the method shown in the movie can be applied practically. I also wonder if the youth around are ready to bring about a change. To bring some sanity in the world.
I wonder.
Ah rains in delhi. There come the mosquitoes.
And so I have finished my first instalment of musings with many more to come.
Maybe I will start writing novels in instalments and publishing them on my blog, like
Dickens’s serialised novels. Hmm. Interesting.
The place where we search for those significant little things shoved in insignificant little corners.
An outlet for all the random things that I like to ruminate (finally), in the true tradition of blogs.
The major reason why it took me so long to open a blog was because I tried to find out what is to be written in a blog. After a lot of research ( ok, a couple of google searches), I have come to a conclusion that a blog can be about anything under the sun. which is exactly what this blog is going to be about. Unedited and unrestrained.
As for the title, well that’s another story I’ll tell when I am in the right frame of mind.
One thing that really creeps me out in the world is so many vested interests in all the things we come across. Sometimes I feel like crying out loud where is the justice, where is the fairness in the world.
I recently read in the newspapers that a major American tobacco company is sponsoring research projects at an American university under an agreement which gives it a right to stop the university from making any research related to adverse effects of tobacco use public. This is so wrong. Tobacco kills. In the worst way possible, claiming lives not only of the users but also of those who are exposed to second hand smoke. It is bad enough that the companies make money by selling such products. They profit on people’s addiction, their ill health and diseases, their miseries and woes. It is even worse that they are withholding such vital information from the public. They don’t even let their consumers know what they are doing to themselves and others through their action.
I am glad that Delhi University has become a smoke free zone. I hope that all public places in Delhi become smoke free zones. We need to have a zero tolerance policy against that to safeguard the interests and health of non-smokers. It was shocking to learn that second-hand smoke is one of the leading causes of lung cancer among non-smokers. I see no reason to allow smoking in public places. It is like killing a section of a population for no fault of theirs just because of the selfish pleasure of the smokers and profits of the cigarette industry. It just makes me fume (pun unintended).
And now my mind is blank. I guess this is what they call a writer’s block. My mind was overflowing with creative juices which have been sucked dry. I had so many things to write, so much stuff to give which suddenly has been wiped out the moment I sit in front of the computer. Hmmm.
I saw rang de basanti recently. I can see injustice everywhere around me but I wonder of the method shown in the movie can be applied practically. I also wonder if the youth around are ready to bring about a change. To bring some sanity in the world.
I wonder.
Ah rains in delhi. There come the mosquitoes.
And so I have finished my first instalment of musings with many more to come.
Maybe I will start writing novels in instalments and publishing them on my blog, like
Dickens’s serialised novels. Hmm. Interesting.
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