India Today

The headline in the newspaper was screaming "Noida wakes up to child killings"
It sounds gory indeed ! Why not ? A whole nation was rocked by the senseless killings at Noida. They are termed as the Nithari killings.Serial killings in India were unheard of earlier. We have a hoary history and heritage of strength,valour,kindness and exemplary character that volumes and volumes are written about stupefying the world. Where has all this gone ? Why are we behaving like fiendish ghouls ? We are putting Dracula to shame.
I shall attribute all this to a systematic invasion of the culture by a decadent Western influence which is short lived. We always were the epitomes of moral strength from times immemorial. Alas ! no more.
This is a direct fallout of the all the cheap trash shown on television and cinema. We are glorifying stupid behaving entertainers calling them stars and what not !
Let us glorify the soldiers of the nation who stand gaurd so that you can sleep peacefully.
Let us glorify the men & women who stand by truth all the time at the cost of even death.
Let us glorify all those people who care for human beings,animals environment..
But lets stop idolizing the likes of film stars,television artistes,dirty politicians who are no more than cheap publicity mongers.
Let us stand united for a more vibrant,culture oriented and truthful society who believe in "Simple living and high thinking".

A trip to Nagarjuna Sagar

Hmmmm ! Atlast I was free from the mundane chores of office work,client meetings and bosses' dressings rather dressing downs. I had applied for leave from the 18Th of Dec till the 29th of Dec. Very smart indeed to coincide it with Saturdays and Sundays.
Laziness had already taken me into its vice like grip and I was enjoying every minute of the lavish extravaganza called idle time. My apartment doesn't boast of a 24 hrs water facility and we have to get up early morning everyday to fill it into the storage tanks built at every conceivable corner of the house. This was the only irritant in my leisure.
I had actually planned to go on a short trip to the South East Asia or shall we say Singapore & Malaysia with my wife Sunita. This would have been my first trip abroad if you don't consider my visit to Nepal. Unfortunately my wife's passport had not yet come from the Regional Passport Office where I had submitted it for renewal. I could see the glee in my children's' eyes that we were not going abroad. Thus the trip to Nagarjuna Sagar took shape on 28th Dec as an appeasement.
We reached N Sagar at 3-30 p.m and rushed to the AP Tourism guest house. I walked into the reception with lots of air & dignity only to be snubbed by shrill cries of "No Rooms available till 2nd Jan". I felt a cold cramp in my already queasy tummy and rushed out to my family, waiting expectantly to be ushered inside. Rather poor me was hushed out.
A good Samaritan told us of a place called the Project House which was a nice place to stay for families. I made a dash towards the place lest I be turned away for coming late by 10 minutes. Luck prevailed and we got a nice cosy accommodation. For me the next 24 hrs was an absolute gastronomic delight at the local mess of the Project House. In between we all went around the famed project of Nagarjuna Sagar and had a darshan of Ethipothla waterfalls.( Photo enclosed is of the falls )
On day 2 after lunch we all trudged to the Project House and started back to Hyderabad.
Homecoming was quite irksome to find the Speedpost person standing with Sunita's renewed passport at my doorstep !!!!!!!!!!!