Mar 7 2011
I listened to this story on talk radio this morning while driving to school. My first reaction was that of shock and surprise. How can there be homeless people in the world’s richest nation? Why aren’t the rich people, governments at various...
Aug 12 2010
This video of a news I read online sums up pretty much everything I want to say. This school district decides to mark out its territory on the road when motorists have to slow down for students during school opening and closing time. Well what...
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Apr 23 2010
I recently chanced upon a news report online about a pre-teen girl from Saudi Arabia who won her divorce from her 80-year-old husband. After reading the brief article I must say I am pretty impressed by the way the girl and her family handled the...
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Apr 21 2010
I have been reading the Dallas Morning News off and on. Recently a news item caught my attention and when I was about to forget all about it and move on I read a follow-up column by one of their women columnists. The column titled “The pinch...
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Mar 11 2010
All ancient civilizations across the world have been subject to ruthless plundering by unscrupulous elements in the world. The greatest plunderers have been Europeans and Arabs. As I write this post the largest trove of emeralds lies in the treasury...
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Mar 5 2010
For several years since India attained independence (1947) the name of the father of nation Mahatma Gandhi has been used, misused, and abused by pretty much every opportunistic unscrupulous individual, family, business, and nation. One of the biggest...
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Feb 20 2010
Since September 11, 2001 the US has been target to several attacks by radical Islamic organizations based in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Though terrorism started with a big bang in the US the following incidents have been fairly low...
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Jan 16 2010
Islamic Terror reared its ugly head in India way back in the late 1980s. It was masquerading in the guise of freedom fighters of Kashmir who wanted to separate the state of Jammu and Kashmir from the republic of India. It was and probably continues to...
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Dec 21 2009
When I was in India America/ US meant couple of things such as New York, Los Angeles, Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, etc. Till the time I landed here I hadn’t known that there exist several natural, historical and heritage locations in this country....
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Nov 6 2009
Yesterday I was driving to work when I heard about the standoff between three unidentified gunmen and the US army. This was happening not at some university, hospital, shopping mall or government office! But at the largest army base in the US, at Fort...
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