We need collaboration ,most desperately,with the Japs in the area of National Character building.It is in  this area that our PM should have signed  a few pacts.Say ,their investing some of their character building technology,instead of money.Foreign investment would just disappear with out giving our economy a boost unless the  character building technology is in place..Our character building technology started going defunct after the departure of the British.While here they condemned us to create something in the nature of a national character.Then we learnt of reverse engineering and to find out how the thing works.One conclusion was that  you don't need a national character,a provincial character will do. Infact a state of charactterlessness would be  the best  alternative to a host of problems that the Indian brand of  Democracy started facing.The Jap are   now doing hectic research to find out as to how decision making can be made obsolete .How randomness can be substituted ,how a leader is a ceremonial adjunct.How grass root management means everyone is an individual enterprise,perfectly democratic in intent and purpose. Individual  has only to look after himself ,and automatically it will add up to the common good.In such noble pursuit there should be no holds barred. 

Eviction of the national bird

 As Gurgaon expands,villages are enclosed,trees disappear,the majestic national bird wonders disconsolately looking for havens of refuge.

The equation between grandchildren and grandparents is unique in many ways.They can swing from delight to despair in a matter of seconds. Aania,my four year old granddaughter,my daughter,my wife and I were on an Indigo flight from Lucknow to Delhi.After having briefly surveyed the surroundings,she asked. "Nana why are those auntie's legs so black" It was no muffled tone.I hastened to explain that they were wearing black stockings,part of their uniform. Aania shot back."I know stocking.but why black."All efforts to divert her attention failed and she persisted."Nana ,I want to touch them".A no you cant,and ,but I want to exchange followed.Pilot s announcement that we were cruising at 23,000ft ,did not help.Finding no escape route I told her to take their permission."NO, Nana you ask them".I tried to convince her that  I cant.With a number of 'pleases' prefixed,she continued,with the volume rising,By now the the descent had commenced.I told her that if i did what she was asking me to do,they would throw me out.I saw an anticipatory glint of sheer delight at the bizarre possibility of Nana being thrown out by  the crew.Touch down came to my rescue.I do not why ,but one of the crew handed her a blank,child passport.I almost thought, they would have loved the throwing out act as  much as Aania.  

CAG s report on China border intrusion.......If (the govt) instead of allowing the Chinks,resorted to auction,a loss of some billions could have been avoided.

Reform the police,more stringent laws are not the solutions or answers.Ask the prestine question ;is the male of the species essentially a predator ? a predator by design,or default,one condemned to do what he does.Is it not ordained  in the creation that procreation is the sole objective?Is not the female of the species designed and condemned to adopt all ruse to attract the attention of the male of the species?And the frail male pretension to civilized behviour crumbles at the moment naturally designed curves  are   provocatively,deliberately,or unintentionally,or instinctively revealed or exposed.Man will do what he is programmed to do.Women will do what they are programmed to do.Physiologically ,one is designed to be vulnerable.IF the predator could not evolve into being able to    control himself  in millions years,if the evolution is towards biological upgrade, adaptation,then where have we arrived.?If man can not evolve towards being" a superman" and stay a predator, Where is the answer ? Till we evolve to a different methodology and consequent male female" disconnect ", physiological, biological and mental ,the female of the species is condemned to curb the natural instincts,excercise  super human restraints in dress, deportment,and that elusive freedom.Like it or not,shun the suggestion as imbecile,misogynistic,from a male chauvinistic pig ,it is the only interim solution for millions of years Mr. Civilized Man, and Ms Civilised Woman.You are still not too far away from the Hair Caveman,dragging the female of the species by her tresses,holding a crudely designed  WMD.

No one questions the secular credentials of  Kamalhasan,or Rahul Bose-unimpeachable. Howevr,even "sarkari" Muslims offer namaz and read Quran and,incidentally ,find no contradiction in their official and religious obligations.I should know;was a "sarkari Mussalman " for 37 years.