Just A Thought

I was sitting in my room, watching a program on TV about a traveler riding on his motorcycle across the length and breadth of India. Many times when he was in the middle of a small village and was hungry or needed a place to stay for the night, he knocked on the door of any villager and he was provided with food and shelter. No questions asked. While watching this I remembered an incident narrated by one of my Uncles which I happened to overhear and it stayed with me. He told us that he had gone to play a cricket match with his friends and by the afternoon when the match got over, he was very hungry. The cricket ground was near a village. So he went to one of the houses in the village with a few of his friends and asked the old lady in the house if he could get something to eat, and the old lady without asking who he was and where had come from went inside and got him a plate full of rice and dal. What struck me about these two incidents is the colossal difference in the thinking betwe

The election results in the 5 states where polls were held recently threw quite a few surprises. BJP created a history of sorts by grabbing more than 300 seats in UP and also winning the highest tally of seats in the state of Uttrakhand in the history of the hill state. It also opened its account in Manipur for the first time. Congress on the other hand won handsomely in Punjab and also emerged as the single largest party in Goa and Manipur. If there were winners it is but natural that the other side would be occupied by some losers.  If the wins were spectacular, losses were equally surprising. BSP could only manage 19 seats in UP, its worst tally ever, and third straight defeat after 2012 and 2014. SP's family drama and Akhilesh Yadav's development cry and a so-called masterstroke of aligning with Congress did not convert into votes. Congress is all but finished in UP. However, the most shocking defeat story and the one I am interested in discussing here is the that of Aam Aa