Fasting as a tool to acheive your goals

Chandra Babu Naidu undertook a Fast to force Congress Government in Andhra Pradesh give a better deal to farmers.I saw him on a bed in the hosp and I did not like him lying on the bed suffering, and I stopped watching Telugu TV channels on my IPad. I do not like this fasting business as this become either a big Tamasha or coercive on the opponent.Rational discussion,merits and demerits goes out of the window. Emotional young people committing violent acts on the streets or committing suicide do not create proper atmosphere for right decisions.I think political leaders should stop this fasting business.

Sunday

Sen.Spector's loss

Good riddance,Sen.Arlen Specter lost in the democratic primary in Pa.He changed his parties to get elected but lost. This selfish fellow with no prinples got what he deserved.

Today

Lord Tebbit,Conservative Minister

Lord Tebbit was a minister in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's cabinet.I was reading his interview in Financial Times and was impressed. His wife was disabled permanently after 1984 IRA attack and he takes care of her for the last 25 yrs of his 53 yrs of marriage.He wakes up twice every night to turn her over to avoid bed sores. He takes his marriage vows seriously. " I take the view that you never know ,do you,when you say those words,'For better or worse,in sickness or health '.You do not know what the future holds." He is not one of those politically correct types who says forget , forgive and healing nonsense even when one should not. He refused to participate in BBC 4 programme to take part in healing " having no taste for the modern appetite to massage away the atrocities of the past with an oily love-in and apologia." He sees this type of British attitude as symptomatic of the weakness,decadence and lack of resolve in modern Society. He is an old time conservative of Thatcher era and does not like present Conservative leader David Cameron for steering Conservative Party to the middle. I disagree with his staunch stay as it is conservatism.That is no win programme.Principles are important on core ideas,but as the society changes, one should adopt as Blair did to Labor Party. I watch David Cameron every week and he is impressive and would love to see him as the Prime Minister of Britain after next elections.
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Delhi high court ruling of Gay sex

Delhi High Court ruling decriminalizing gaysex is not to my liking,neither do I want the police break the bed rooms of adults and drag them into jail cells.I remember going to a concert long time ago in the Central Park,New York and people booing gay guys walking around.Now it is no big deal in New York.That is what I do not want to happen in India.Let us keep the way things are and not to encourage gay life style.It is not just another life style and not like a man and woman relationship.Man and woman relationship has more meaning than physical pleasure.

Lunch with Financial Times:

Every Friday,when I pick up The Financial Times, I look for who would be at Lunch with The Financial Times( Regular column in the weekend Financial times). It is kinda reality TV. It is elaborate,intimate and very interesting. I may put aside the whole paper if I do not have the time,but I would religiously read that.The recent Lunch guest was the principle conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle. He was in the South of France for a concert. They were talking about Germans and British.According to him,"Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it".British tabloids caricature Germans as humourless.English are self -deprecating,looking down on themselves,insular but flexible.Germans are very Deutsch- we know better. Germans are never frightnened to tell what they think unlike British. "German sounds are so clear and articulated but it is not allusive".Germans take irony as sarcasm. English are indecisive,but after making a decision,they they will go through with it,but Germans are like to be decisive, and then change their mind. "Germnas are most emotional people on the planet. The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse". German precision also comes from that emotion to avoid chaos.English culture is of inhibition and restraint whereas German culture is emotional.Very intersting of people and cultures.