| Current mood: |  sleepy |
| Current music: | Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin |
Mercury rising
It gets hotter by the day here in Ahmedabad. Temperatures are now nearing 50 degrees Celsius. It is almost unthinkable for most people to be out on the streets post-noon and before sundown. And yet, dotting the landscape, are numerous crews of starvation-wage labourers digging up the roadsides and laying telephone cables and water ducts before the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority starts on its plan to widen roads in the sattelite areas in earnest. And, obviously, all the digging means that's its almost unthinkable for most people to be out on the streets pre-noon and post-sundown as well.
The indomitable Mr. N called me up yesterday to tell me about a spiritual experience he'd had. Life changing and all that. Apparently he picked up a prostitute on his way back from work and then, after a long auto ride to one of the seedier sections of Bangalore chickened out when it came to actually getting down to business. He has it that if I put two and two together I'd know how that translates to being a couple of steps closer to nirvana. But then I've always been terrible at math. Knowing Mr. N he's sure to turn it all into a crisply written script or screenplay. And then who knows, maybe a feature-length film someday?
Sundays throw up unexpected surprises sometimes. Like this morning I picked up the newspaper from the porch and found a double spread interview with Prof. Noam Chomsky splashed across the sunday supplement. The war against terrorism and how he thinks its a misnomer, at best, though chances are it is much worse than that. I should read some more of him really.
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Then I saw her face
now I'm a believer !
Not a trace of doubt in my mind.
I'm in love
I'm a believer !
I couldn't leave her if I tried.
I know everyone and their grandmums have sung this song, but no one croons it like Neil Diamond, IMHO.
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And I leave you with this-
I have yet to see someone walking the streets on Pearl Harbour Day celebrating Japanese fascism.
- Noam Chomsky
And since this is obviously sans context I'll leave it to you to figure it out...
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