Cruising with Life

Hi friends, I wrote this for Mypage5, a site where I am quite active these days. I talk about my preference for being (and remaining ) a vegetarian and why I feel that people should remain so, and in fact, if possible adopt it. Till a long time, even upto early 20th century, our forefathers did not had many of the conveniences that science and technology has provided us. To be more specific, I would talk about Cold Storage, Bulk Transportation,extensive Roads and Rails and numerous Flights for cargo movement. These as well as refrigerator and Air conditioning has made it possible to store foods as well as fruits as well as vegetables all year around,and not just for a particular season. Our forefathers and ancestors lacked these facilities. Hence, they had to contend with whatever grew / or was available in their natural habitat, and as per different seasons. So, an Eskimo living near North Pole had to hunt for animals and so did a person living in higher Himalayas, say in Ladakh, Ti...

I read this in Hindu-Business Line: Mr. Gudmundur Eriksson, Ambassador of Iceland in India was at a meeting of Assocham-Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India regional office in Ahmedabad, and offered technological tie-up in the field of producing geo-Thermal energy. Iceland is among one of the world's (and probably the highest) leading producers and users of Geo-Thermal energy. This is a form of renewable energy, like water, solar and wind, and is produced by using the heat trapped inside the earth. As per Mr. Eriksson, producing Geo-Thermal energy incurs 1/3 rd of the cost of equivalent Solar energy and Iceland already has technological tie-ups with Abu Dhabi, Kenya and Sudan. I believe that if this tie up happens, it will be a great news not only for Gujrat but for India as a whole. There would be a boost for Energy generation as well as potential money spinner in the future, when India could as well export the acquired knowledge of generating Geo-Thermal e...

In an exciting finish in the first test match at Mohali, India beat Australia by 1 wicket. India had to make 216 to win, and at 1 stage India were 124 for 8. Then V.V.S.Laxman and Ishant Sharma had a superb partnership of 81 runs and took India to victory. Laxman remained unbeated on 73, and Ishant made 31. The place where I am currently staying does not subscribes to the sports channel showing this match, but I would surely love to watchthe highlights of this match.

This is another of my Chennai experiences. I had this experience on the street where I stayed at a guest house location till 30th September morning. The street on which I lived is called as "Neelkanda Mehta" street. However, on many homes as well as some other places, it is written as "Neelkanda Metha" street. I have asked other people too. However, I have not found a satisfactory answer.

I have been in Chennai since 10th September. It had been very hectic for first 2 weeks. I did not get time even on weekends to explore anything.Finally here was a saturday in Chennai, when I did not had to go to the Office. I had a local tour here. Or may be a local journey. I took bus no. 500M from Chrompet to T.Nagar since I had to go to meet someone. It was an A.C bus and I got a seat within 10 minutes. It was a comfortable journey after that. An exciting thing was to be able to watch Chennai airport runway from a flyover near the Chennai airport. This airport is undergoing a major expansion. I also had a good walk in the afternoon, when I walked nearly 2 kilometres (or may be it was 3) from G.N.Chetty road to the Pondy Bazaar in T.Nagar. It was a bit humid during the return journey and the sun was also shining bright. Yet, overall it was a good experience. More in my next blog.