Cruising with Life

Living in a big city has many advantages.We can buy good cars, can have good homes.We have a plenty of clothes ,electronics items and what not .We do have some things which are problematic like traffic, noise and many a times crime. Still, people do like to live there.Many even feel egoistic about it.I would like to term this as "Big City Ego" ! What is it? This is a word I did not read from anywhere, even though such a term might be existing.This is the feeling that many of my fellow urbanites have of feeling superior because they happen to live in; or born in a big city. They even make others feel inferior or worse, try to humiliate them. I was born in New Delhi, bought up, educated and for major part of my career, worked here.Yet; it does not make me feel something extra special. It does not give me "license" to make others feel inferior or brag about myself. Yet; there are some friends as well as relatives of mine who take extreme pride in being born or ...

Hi , I am writing a new blog post after quite some time. In between, I was writing on a few other sites. So, Here I am with a new post. I posted this on another site: Mypage5. Do tell me if you like this one : I have a strong liking for seeing patterns in things,or with numbers.No,I am not a genius mathematician;even though my maths had been average to good in different mathematical topics.One pattern which I have been observing is with respect to the dates on which Hindu religion's major festival :"Deepavali" - the festival of lights (also called as 'Diwali" ) has been over past 9 years -starting from the year 2000. Now,this might be due to some well known astrological or astronomical cycle,which I am unaware of ;yet most of you know about.Still,I would like to share this with all of you : 1) In the years 2000,2003,2006 and 2009 , Deepavali was on or before 25 October. This year it has been the earliest as far as I recall-on 17th October !! . 2)Years...