penny day

A penny saved is a penny earned


A penny for your thoughts

To put my two cents in,

A necessity for penny pitchers

Haven’t heard so many penny focused saying. Remember the days of 1paise,2paise and 3paise. Well they are all gone now enough for the reserve bank to think of pulling out the coins. This is a world wide syndrome yet it is still lucky to find a penny on the ground.

23rd may is also the Penny day.

Chanakya's chants

Chanakya’s chants


Author: Ashwin Sanghi

Publisher: Westland ltd.

ISBN 978-93-80658-67-4

The author Ashwin Sanghi, an entrepreneur by profession, publishes this novel in his own name unlike his first The Rozabal Line which was published under a pseudonym Shawn Haigins.

The books swings in time between the Chankyan Era and Modern India politically. He draws parallels in between the lives of the modern day King maker Gangaprasad and the ancient Chanakya Vishnugupta.

The book is fairly interesting, though the author is not able to linguistically create the swing in time. He has Gangaprasad’s protégée Chandini Gupta to match Chanakya’s Chandragupta. The twist being a romantic angle of Chanakya who lands up being Rakshas mistress her curse will allow the chant of Chankya to succeed only if the protégée is a woman. He also attributes the success of chanakya to his Shakti mantra.

What I now do is a taboo, but after the refined time swing of Asoka era by Amita Kanekar the book seems a little crude.

An interesting book to borrow and read.

Osama-Obama-Oh! a drama

Obama-Osama-O a drama.


Osama with this tranquil face has become icon of terrorism, and it was necessary of Obama to amputate his Islamic roots in the phase of Islamic phobia.

Yet I wonder how much American media has contributed to creating the Osama image. Movie star Jim Carrey calls Osama a boogieman.

His death has heralded an end and a beginning, it’s like “the king is dead long live the king”” as the Goan thinker Tomazino Cardozo observed “Bin laden maybe dead but not his though.”

What is unacceptable and shocking in the whole operation is the way it was done!

The Americans sneaked and sized into Pakistan, it violating the sanctity of the country. To me it sounds like proving the American sovereignty, and an indirect invasion of Pakistan.

Shekhar Kapur observes –Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan all wounds opened in the name of Osama. If you note it’s like the invasion of the east, next boogieman will be created in India and it is only a step to china which was what really worries Uncle Sam.

Though Osama’s bombing of the twin towers is unacceptable to the civilized mind it might be the only way to handle Uncle Sam who thrives on arms selling. Bully the Bully and he will back off.