The Sale of Tibet

Ha! It was bound to happen. Its just a matter of time before everyone declares Tibet to be officially part of China. We never had and currently don't have the balls to even whisper something against the Chinese, the Americans sold them of during Nixon's time and now so have the Brits. Aah screw it. I guess as far as the Brits are concerned they want the Chinese to up their contribution to the IMF (upping Chinese support in the current financial crisis) - I guess the sale of a people's freedom does not compare to that.

Hey the concept of blood money has been around a lot longer than Tibet has right?

Did Britain Just Sell Tibet? - NYT op-ed

Bookie Waffling

Got done with 'An Area of Darkness' yesterday. Its a quick read written in a brutally honest fashion like Naipaul normally does. However the book, read today, seems pretty dated to me – and I'm not talking about physical changes that have taken place since the book was written. Basically, the generalizations done on the 'Indian' character seems to be fairly dated (hopefully) and I feel the way people around here think has changed considerably ( at least in Bombay). But, Naipaul does have the advantage of an outsiders view and so there's a bright chance that things are exactly the way he writes them (and that bhaaya is scary).

An extremely interesting bit of the book for me was about his stay in Kashmir (restricted to the Valley and Amarnath – unfortunately he never did Ladakh, which must have been pretty closed at the time + it was just before the Chinese Incursion). I was there around 3 months ago and bloody hell, the way he has described the people over there (of the valley ) is bang on. Its like they've been stuck in a time loop or something.

Its the same over there now – most folks still think that the Kashmir problem does not involve them. You could live a month over there and except for the bunch of CRPF guys with guns you would not know about the issue. They still try to cheat the living crap out of you – all while moaning about their sorry fate. They still treat the Dal like a massive sewer – we were the guys who got laughed at for refusing to chuck our cigarette stubs into the lake.

Yup, so an interesting read. For now I'm trying to get my hands on a book of short stories by Marquez. Lets see what happens with that.

Adios

Ego Diminishing

I'd been talking to a couple of friends about whether or not one could make a completely rational, non-biased decision without - in part at least suppressing his id.

This was a concept of dits which I helped write a year back. I pretty much wrote it with the thought of it being put into film - which I still hope gets done. C'mon ditter!!

On a side note I got ditter's blog added to the links as well since its active again.


Its the first of 2 parts.

PART 1

Getting out of bed, the music filled his head. Clean chords kept in reign with their sweet voices

The morning air had the light bounce of spring in it. This, he thought was the way a day was meant to be. The dull apartment felt fresh and new. His minds eye ignored the grime that had settled around him through twenty-seven years of sheep living.
He walked to the salon. As he walked inside, he noticed the hairdressers eyes. She was beautiful.
He now looked decent.

Back home, he felt the clean blue of the water as he showered and then shaved. Aah, the music.
Locking the door, he knew this day was a new beginning. His overused t-shirt and old jeans now looked out of place. The music soared.

The store attendant raised an eyebrow. Screw him!
He bought a standard blazer with matching pants.The shoes he bought had the dull gleam of rich leather. He left his old skins in the changing room. Let the bastard deal with them, he thought. Damn! the guitarist was good.

Walking into the beautiful victorian building he noticed that the doorman touched his cap to him, the bloody clothes made a difference after all.

He took the elevator to top floor,
with confidence inborn he opened the old iron door.

The music peaked.
As the Sun shone bright above,
the kundalini rose.
The edge is a beginning,
He knew.

He Jumped.



and the baby was born.

The Links

Hmmm. So apparently a short introduction to the links I put up is in need.


Silliman's Blog - I'd rather not introduce Ron Silliman. A fun thing about this blog is the comments by some really big names, over some pretty trivial issues, in a way that would make a facebook group proud.

Zaev Dutt - Aaaah. Where do I begin. The blog contains a whole bunch of firsts. A lot of truths in here. However the blogger loses a lot of his credibility by making snide/ underhanded statements about Batman while promoting Mr. Red Underwears.

Paul Krugman - Brilliant. Its weird that I actually like this guys writing so much considering I an a strong proponent of laissez-faire capitalism. The guy (at least right now) is pretty hardcore Keynesian in thinking but has some rock solid reasoning to back him up........ and yeah he won a Nobel a coupla months ago.

*Different Stars* - Mostly a fashion related blog. However you definitely find some pretty interesting poetry in here. Something I read in here:
"The honest truth,
Not to be told
But is known and
Yet seems to be unknown"

So yup gonna keep adding to the links and they'll show up depending on the latest updated.

Adios

DuAa Rhymin'

Stop whinin' bout life,
all the pain and all the strife.

The po'me's o' pain,
and times so grave
help me out darlin,
they toiynin' the sane insane

And now you got me all monain' and whinin'
And ruinin this ol' po'me with all this rhymin'.

Hey Hey,
In the words of ol' pappy,
make merry to be happy.


HA - hey man too much Dorothy Parker but without the suicidal

The List

Aaah. Something I've wanted to do for a long time. So basically I'm creating a list of books that I am bloody glad to have read so far. The list will only contain stuff that I truly like and can pretty much go back to and start reading from the middle again and all that jazz. For instance I can always pick up Atlas Shrugged and begin reading from any point - the same way i can pick up the Godfather at the point where Michael walks out of the loo with the gun in his hand and proceeds to gun down McCluskey and Sollozzo - whoo yeah!!

Also there is no order in the list. I'm gonna keep adding as I see fit.

Dorothy Parker should have had a blog.