Toxic Clouds, Blocking our minds

Imagine yourself in Bhopal on the midnight of December 2nd 1984 :

• Overpopulated bastee just next to the deadly MIC gas tanks at Union Carbide
• A marriage function in the bastee which usually faced tragedies, but was elated that night
• A marriage in a railway colony in Old Bhopal
• A poetic gathering at the Spice Square in Bhopal (assembly of hundreds of poets and poetry lovers)
• Event of Ishtema that day (the only day when entire India convulged into Bhopal)

Imagine a plight of all these people when the fumes of the world's deadliest gas might have caught them - Completely unaware (of what was coming and what the gas actually is). Common fallout withing seconds of sniffing the gas:

Vomiting, defecation, urination, suffocation and exhaustion of oxygen......

Read on to know who were the villians and heros of this barbaric event in the entire history of India.

Five Past Midnight in Bhopal - Dominique Lapierre & Javier Moro - a must read please. Read and ask your friends to read. Be informed and inform !!!!

Pestering Eyeballs !!!!!!

"Yahan faltu khada rehna mana hai"...

Saw this placard in a CD shop outside a very busy suburban railway station somewhere in Mumbai...... at first look I found it very funny... I saw it...walked past it... thought... and then came back to click an image.....

I wondered what made the shop-owner put up this placard in his shop. I classify buying roadside CDs (MP3) as "Impulse Buying" and doesnt the so-called "Window Shopping" aid in strengthening a buying decision????

He must have surely faced a tough time with on-lookers or may be he has a roaring business and doesnt like these on-lookers block the way of prospective customers... nonetheless kudos to the courage... "Caveat Emptor"?????... hey buyer (prospective buyer/onlooker)... r u really the king????

Indian Post - My Ignorance

One of the biggest monoliths India has to its credit: Indian Postal Services - satisfying the communications need of millions of Indians in India and abroad. Founded in 1764 with more than 600,000 employees and 154,000 offices it has revolutionized the way we communicate.

But the million dollar question here is – has our new generation turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to what the post office has been doing for over 2 centuries???

Still very bureaucratic and “rule-book”ized Indian Post does not generally appeal to the new generation who is more inclined to communicate of the Internet, thanks to Google, Yahoo, MSN and the likes.

Let us take my own example and see if anyone else has faced this or something like this before. I wanted to send a Money Order to Devasthan in Goa, I asked for 2 forms and the babu across the glass counter handed over the forms and said “8 ana” and I conveniently handed over Rs. 10, thinking he said “8 Rupiaya”. Damn !!!! I cursed myself, am I so ignorant that I overlooked the fact that a money order form cant be as exorbitantly priced, after all it is for the masses.

I am still cursing myself for my ignorance or apathy, I would like to know if there others of my generation (by the way I am 25) who would have perceived the same or do I need to be a bit more closer to the reality???