the pursuit of happyness

what is happiness?? is it merely the absence of sadness?
i've experienced happiness. i've experienced emotional neutrality. but it's the sadness that i notice most, when i experience it. somehow the happiness goes by as a feeling, not as a realization of feeling. with sadness its different. i think that might to an extent account for the second question.

i raise this rhetoric because i'm experiencing a sense of deja vu. in a few days i'm off to mumbai for my job, and while i'm terribly excited, more than at any other change in life before, the creeping feeling of sadness is snaking its way through me again. i love home. i loved my campus in lucknow. i loved home.

and the second i fell in love with campus, i knew i could never be totally happy at 1 place again; because there would always be at least one other that i would miss.
and as we grow, and experience more, there's always going to be more to miss. is life supposed to be this complicated?

i'm more ready for change now than i'll ever be in the future, but now is just wen i feel i'm settling back into home. it's a shame to have to leave it, and my family, and my dogs.....

but these shoes will trudge on i suppose....

europe is a lovely country!!

europe is a lovely country!
some may dispute the fact. not that about it being beautiful, no one can dispute that, but the one about it being a country....

however, i beg to differ. i dont think those places there with names like germany, france, austria etc are countries. atleast not from my indian viewpoint. it simply does not take a mere 6 hours to cross a country. it should take 30, like from kashmir to kanyakumari. and the fact that europe as a whole is more homogenous than india.

no sirree, these so called 'countries' are actually pseudo-countries, tiny imitations, mini-nations, cheap copies (except they're quite expensive, not cheap at all!!)

but europe is beautiful nonetheless

a mockery of the legal system

moral policing has now spread to the courts. with a spillover of dockets, hundreds of cases in the backlog, cases relating to murder, rape, abuse, suicide, etc. the jaipur high court issued an arrest warrant against richard gere, for....get this....kissing shilpa shetty on the cheek. apparently it goes against the indian moral senses.

richard gere has done more for india thru his work for AIDS awareness than the jaipur court. luckily the US doesnt have an extradition treaty with india. or who knows how many foreigners would be incarcerated for trying to help????

much ado about madeleine

really.....is it necessary??
seems like a worthless cause....i dont know the reaction in india...but here in europe it has been headlines on every news show, and breaking news at the tiniest hint of news
when you see people being kidnapped by the dozen in the lesser developed parts of the world, why should this one person be so important?? making her a cause for greater good...pah
firstly the parents were at fault, leaving 3 kids unattended to party. next they create a huge uproar, get people to support them, people who have no better cause to pursue apparently, and then these people pile on the pressure on the authorities. this pressure now causes the police to start naming random people as suspects, just to imply that they're making progress. in this hunt, it's the suspects whose lives are being ruined; their names dragged through mud!!

for the family this might be a huge tragedy....but for strangers??