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Traffic ! Traffic !

Swish Swish Swash - And another Bike moves past the car I am Driving . If it were any closer it would just have touched the car a bit . This is something that you would also have experienced many times and not only bikes but every kind of vehicle on Indian Roads ( South East Asian countries are not far behind but that I have not researched) . Some of my friends argue that I am new to car driving and that they don't find it maddening . But ponder for a moment . Everyone is a newcomer one or the other time. Apart from that think how dangerous it is when someone jumps a red light or drives at frightening speed. Just 1 mistake by someone and life is in peril. I feel it is time that we get into right driving manners and think about safe driving on Roads . 17 Sep 2007: After 8 odd months,things do not appear to improve much ;except for the fact that my Driving has improved considerably. "Road Safety" - well that is another thing altogether .

A Take on Vegetarianism

Blogging seems to have caught the fancy of many on the Net. And today I am a new joinee to the "Tribe" (if you don't mind that Term) of Bloggers. My First Topic is about something for which some people have a very Strong Feeling ;while some don't feel anything and some are quite casual about it . I am talking about the debate as to whether being a Vegetarian is better compared to being a Non-Vegetarian or vice-versa. A number of people say that in presence of abundance of Fruits and Vegetables and Leaves(like Coriander Leaves etc) used for Cooking ; we don't need to be a Non-Vegetarian . Opposed to it is a view that killing a few Animals and eating them may be good for "Food Chain" . One of my friends once said : "A Lot of Products in Markets are Adulterated . So it might be possible that Some of the Veggie Food available in the Market may already have Non-Veg Stuff in it ." But I see this as a desperate commen...