As the thought flows -04

At IPSWICH, UK as I read the Times of India news about the common wealth game scam, if we may call it that way, my mind was singing silently "Yeh tho honahi tha|"

One cannot become politician if greed is totally absent. Indian ones are rapacious. See the audacity to claim the reimbursement of VAT from UK govt on money illigally begotton. Seems the idea to legitimatise has back fired. After heated debate and discussions in all conceivable fourms, this will die down soon as yet another scam will sure to surface - matter of time.

How many remembers Satyam ? Satyam What ? ! Collective Indian public memory is woefully short. When well less than one percent controls over ninety nine per cent of national wealth and most of the time "aam adhmi" is forced fighting to douse the fire in stomach, brain cells are starved. Etched in it will be yesterday's struggle to eke out and plans to face a dubious today.

Back to opening sentence. Ipwich ? Yes. Me and my wife were drawn by the powerful magnet of our only son's son (peran endru solla enna vetkkam da unakku) to this far from Bangalore. At one of the big and busiest airport of the world, HEATHROW systems were beautifully in place and functioning too ! On June 14th as we drove out from the airport, it was bright sun shine at 21 hrs ! Which is correct United Kingdom or Great Briton ?

God has given, in general, one extra for us. Eyes, ears hands... Those we generally misuse, he has restricted it to one. say mouth. HE invariably gives an opportunity to relive the past too. A few gifted ones get the oppourtunity to relish every moment of the growth of their progeny. GOD, in his magnanimity, gives another chance to the rest who missed out invariably due to vocational constraints through grand children.

As I watch present generation kids, it crosses my mind to ask how these children are born with such an astonishing mental faculty? Did we also born like them but regressed to the present status ? One should not ask this question to one's mother as the proverb says "kakaikum tan kunju pon kunju " But you dare not ask this to someone else. They will only be too pleased to confirm that you were exactly as you are - an idiot !