A German who loves India

Here's something written by a well-known man, a man even more whimsical than myself. Read, and let him or me know whether, if you are an Indian, you feel sorry for him and sorry about ourselves. The man loves India despite everything! He can be reached by email at m.kaempchen@gmx.de 

The virus of consumerism, and how it was spread

This is hardly funny, but do look up this link, everybody. This is something I have been writing about in various ways for a long time, this is how it actually happened, and this is how the US, once a truly 'leading' nation in the proper sense of the term, has been polluting the whole world's mindset continuously since the time radio and TV spread around the world... if you know about the disease and how it is spreading, it is slightly easier to resist it.

Conditioners and such things

Wow, ten whole days have passed since the last post here, and I didn't even notice.

Yesterday I saw a young man, a college goer, buying conditioner for his hair. Funny, I have managed to spend and enjoy fifty years of life without feeling the need for such things. And it was a coincidence that the same day I read an article  in The Telegraph titled 'Secrets of beauty' written by Ashok Desai: the author, an economist of some repute, is advising Indians to work less hard and spend more time and money on looking good. I wonder how many readers will even understand that this essay was written with tongue firmly planted in cheek...