Kaveeta Kaul
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Pratibha Patils election as the First Woman President of India might have sent a tinge of elation in the hearts and minds of citizens had Magsaysay award winner Kiran Bedi’s randomity of being superseded not have occurred the same day.
Vying for the top post of Commissioner in the country’s capital, Kiran Bedi made her displeasure known when her junior Y.S.Dadwal outraced her by measures other than merit and seniority. Kiran in her signature style, forthright, dispassionate, stoic almost yogic , elucidated on her deserving the Chief of Police distinction, while drawing attention as to how Dadwal was unfairly appointed. (more…)
My mother has taken ill. I cant quite get myself to writing . Hoping and praying she will be fine soon.
Her story..
Kaveetaa Kaul
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Perhaps one of the rarest accounts of a vicariously described relationship is that of Pamela Mountbatten’s depiction of her mother Edwina, wife of Lord Mountbatten the last Viceroy of India and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehrus ‘love affair’ in her book India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power. A daughter looking back at her mothers life with candid honesty and mature ponderings does astonish one, followed by a sense of admiration at the candor of her approach.
What is ‘platonic love’? (more…)
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Kaveeta Kaul
Guru Dutt..the mere mention of the name conjures up a memory of those eyes, which seemed piercing but simultaneously hypnotic, romantic, questioning therefore, melancholic.They were as if making an assertion of having seen it, lost it as well, realising en route. the futility of it all ! (more…)
Kaveeta Kaul
Intelligence sources have confirmed Indian Engineer from Bangalore Kafeel Ahmed as the driver of the truck in the failed terror attack on Glasgow Airport. He is presently in hospital with 90% burn injuries.
Another first to India’s credit.. the first Indians involved in terrorism outside India!
The myth that terrorism had as its breeding ground illiteracy and poverty is now shattered. Multiculturalism, education and extremism are terms which behoove serious analysis in this volatile scenario. (more…)
This is not a detailed post on the topic..just a reminder that “Live Earth ‘ is performing today to focus attention on this debilitating phenomenon which is taking on menacing proportions.
WE cannot but be responsible individually..our children inherit the earth.
Jidda sent me this link
Laxmi sent these:
http://www.ipcc.ch
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org
http://www.climatehotmap.org
http://www.fightglobalwarming.com
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
Today live on you tube ..100 blockbuster artists, across seven continents, to combat climate crisis…For details
Notice the giddy smirks from the two in red! perhaps it ought to have been their sister!
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Kaveeta Kaul
The most essential ingredient needed to survive in a sere environment, where mild pleas are dismissed, protests if not validated by money/ muscle power , ignored, torture rubbished, is nerves of steel.
Pooja Chauhan a hapless wife, daughter-in-law and mother was driven to strip down in a gesture which bespoke of aberrant helplessness, after repeated complaints to the Police accusing her husband and in laws of torture fell on deaf ears. Her fault: She gave birth to a baby daughter 8 months ago when her in laws desired a son. Also she refused to bring in more dowry as was being constantly demanded (more…)
An image of The Amarnath Cave and the Lingam as it is ordinarily.
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Kaveetaa Kaul
Do we consider ourselves deuteragonists? Second most important in the Great Drama of Life? Or are we pretending to be so, out of ignorance? Or merely acting out our misconceptions? Or waiting for the veil of illusion to lift and expose that which lay behind was in fact a mirror of what lay hidden inside, Pure, Timeless, Intelligence, Deathless, Beingless, All Knowing…
In an unprecedented first, the Shiv Lingam at the holy cave of Amarnath in Kashmir has melted completely (completely in the title meant to emphasise ‘total dissolution’.. without an iota of doubt) creating a wave of disappointment in the lakh or so pilgrims gathered in Pahalgam en route Amarnath. July 1st, the first day of the pilgrimage and there was no lingam in the cave, as validated by the shrine authorities.
Does this mean therefore that Lord Shiva has deserted his abode? (more…)
