Musings...

Bono lead singer of U2 as quoted in Rolling Stone "I used to think that one day I'll be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realise that is who I am. I do feel that I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me." When I read this, I immediately felt in kinship with him; all my life i feel like doing multiple and different things, I have worked on multiple functions, studied in many schools; I have even dabled in many learnings like learning to play guitar and key board, to dance, to act, learn video editing. Not only that, I also want to be in multiple sports, do multiple functions, listen to many kind of music, read all sorts of books, There are so many things I want to do in this world; perhaps explore live in many facets. Unlike Bono, I still don't know what or where i am getting closer to but like him I am st

Today was a nice engaging day; Skyz and lokhandwala resident association had planned a 5 and 3 km competition the money which went towards community development. There were so many participants - guessed about 400 plus. It was sponsored by some corporates including Centurion Bank of Punjab. The event was starred with some celebs including Uday and Sujata Pawar (badminton couple), Karan (tennis) and bollywood/tellywood of course - can you have an event without bollywood being present? Rakhi sawant and Abhishek (not Bachan) and Negi of the chakde fame. The flag was waved off at about 8.02 and the event started. We ran from lokhandwala near joggers park, went down main lokhandwala road , turned towards the circle, went towards four bangalows and retuned via indian oil nagar. It was inspiring to see so many people run including senior citizens; i was particularly inspired to see people of 40 plus running; i managed to cross the second one but the first one kept his distance and was much be

The last two days were quite nice in terms of my marathon practice. The first was on this Saturday (6th Oct, 07); I woke up (had to literally push myself as i am primarily a night person) and left home(Lokhandwala Mhada, Andheri Bombay) at 5.40 AM; and glory of glories, I reached CCI (near Marine Lines, Bombay) at 6.15 AM (just 35 minutes). It was a lovely drive even with some traffic around; I stopped at Bandra as there was a crowd of muslim devotees engaged in their morning prayer who were disturbed my some mentally challenged woman ( i think); I passed via Shivaji park and it was wonderful to see lots of people on the road engaged busily in walking or running. I drove further to marine drive where it was equally lovely to see the sea, the sun about to rise and it was almose daylight and the groups of many persons running or walking energetically on the road adjacent to the sea. I waited for Dr Rajat from Bangalore with who I was to run this Saturday; He had already started with his

When one thinks of invention, our mind immediately goes to something complex like a scientist sitting in a lab researching on a new medicine or an IT professional planning on a new product that business requires. But what about the millions of small inventions that are being created daily on a minute to minute basis by lacs and crores of people across the world. What about the common idli ( a south indian fast food speciality) that can be created in minutes or the concept of marriage, the concept of sister and brothers that seem so natural that we take it for granted! Or using washing machine to make lassi, the many inventions such as languages, creating of NGO (though why they are called non governmental organisations instead of organisations for social causes)? Is urdu nothing but some language shown in a mirror and used to write as a secret code? Was Rakhi ( the indian practise of a sister tying rakhi on a brother's wrist) created to protect the sister by the brother or a ploy b

Is there any difference between invention and discovery? Invention is suppose to be something new that one has created and discovery is uncovering something that exists right? In what way is invention of electric bulb different from Einstein formulating theory of relativity or someone uncovering (not discovering) an obscure temple in a remote cornet of the world or perhaps under the sea? Is discovery supposed to be of things that are existing, known to people or entities that are close to where they live and not published? Isnt it arrogance to say that Columbus discovered America when there were native "Red Indians" (again arrongance to call them Red Indians) living there for many years? And inventions? How did Einstein formulate the theory of relativity or Newton to formulate gravity? Didnt they suddenly get a flash (which meant that some existing ideas flashed into their mind) and then they formulated it? And Edison, didnt he get an idea of bulb (externally if I may say so)

Running & keeping fit apart from eating fresh food are some of the few pursuits that I have consistently pursued for the last ten years. Running probably needs a lot more physical and mental stamina since one battles with oneself and there is no competitor to beat. It is not easy to get someone to run with you unless you are in a locality where there are lots of runners. Things are changing in India, at least it is more published and I noticed that there are quite a few runners at Shivaji Park ( Dadar , Bombay) and Marine Drive. Bangalore is very active and i receive lots of information on weekly runs. I started quite small about 5 years back (running that is )when I ran my first long distance (about 4 kms ); that gave me the courage (?) to run 7 kms the next year in the annual Stanchart marathon event. Not looking back, I attempted the next jump to 21 kms and have been running consistently for the last three years. Running marathon needs lots of patience, mental toughness an