Oh God!

If you’re a creationist then you should be running scared. The Large Hadron Collider will be switched on tomorrow and 80 scientists from 40 countries will be looking for the Higgs Bosun particle – or as they call it, the God particle. They are trying to recreate the circumstances that may have caused the Big Bang and therefore, take us a step closer to figuring out how we all got here.
So, is God in danger? Will proof emerge that God does not exist? I have implicit faith in the existence of God... and in the facts of science.

Ass-kissing nuclear power

India’s entry to the nuclear club gives me bragging rights. However, it’s a classic case of how we are still slaves to the Western (US, largely) perspective. When I ask the average person whether s/he is comfortable with Iran’s nuke programme, the answer is no. So why should anyone be comfy with India’s? Because we are more non-violent than the Iranians? Bull shit. It’s because we have been kneaded and brainwashed into being a Western lackey. Our new nuke status should have tremendous civilian benefits. But make no mistake. We kissed ass to get it. The Iranians have not.

Rooney, the playmaker

We all love Wayne Rooney (and we all do, you just don’t know it yet)? Not merely because he plays for Manchester United. No, because he is an ordinary bloke who can play amazing football. The magic thing about an ordinary person who can do special stuff, is it fills us all with hope. And that’s why Rooney bulldozing through defences was considered a sight of beauty and amazing grace. Then, he stopped scoring. He still created chances and set-up goals, but he just didn’t bang them in like we expected him to. Is Wayne Rooney actually a playmaker?

Eating healthy is eating costly

Unhealthy, tasty food is easier to find, and cheaper, than healthy food. Living on my own right now, and not knowing how to cook, is costing me an arm and a leg, apart from proving to be a logistics nightmare, to eat healthy.
Before I embarked on this journey to stay alive, I never spent more than a minute on deciding what to order. But, try getting a West One Chicken Salad delivered. Besides, I can get a biryani, loaded with half a goat, for half the cost of a bed of lettuce with a dead fish on it.

Na-no, Na-now

I have watched with gret pride and interest the development of Ratan Tata’s Nano. I have reserved judgement for sometime, because nationalistic fervour is hard to douse. However, I think it’s time to say that with a global perspective of the single most element that will determine the future of humans in the next 50 years –environment – the Nano is a decade too late. Flooding the Indian market with Nanos, their meeting fuel emission norms notwithstanding, will do no good for the climate. What we need now is the Nano that does not run on gas. Latest by 2010.

Cut the bullshit

I am a functional alcoholic and drug addict. I’ve kept them at bay for some time now. It may seem like I’m bragging, but you need to only speak to those close to me to know the devastation that stuff like this can bring. My point of flashing my dirty laundry in public, is to stress the chasm between tolerance for bullshit and no tolerance, that I feel. When high, my tolerance for crap is very high. When sober, especially over a period of time, I just can’t handle bullshit. However, there is some value to shooting the breeze.

The amazing US presidential race

America’s first black presidential candidate beat a white woman to win the ticket. He will now race-off against a former prisoner of war. The PoW picked a gun-loving mother of five as his running mate. Seems to me Obama’s man for VP who only has - underwent lifesaving surgery to correct two brain aneurysms – on his resume, may be the weakest link in this surreal drama of politics.
No scriptwriter could have come up with this thick a plot. And just when you thought it could’nt get any more human, Palin’s daughter is pregnant, at 17, out of wedlock.