SOME THOUGHTS IN JULY, 2021

Our views need to be honest; not necessarily have to be popular. The Cuckoo, I thought, sang sweet because it loved and wished well of the world it lived in. Since persons of eighteen years of age and above have been vaccinated by now in good number, it is not in anyone's interest that they should continue to sit at home away from colleges. Colleges must open now and admit those who have had their two jabs. India's students have remained away from schools and colleges for far too long a period and must return to their respective schools and colleges as soon as possible. A Bandh call is an appeal, Bandh can’t be enforced. A person not subscribing to the cause of the Bandh may as well go his way. He cannot be coerced to compliance.Application of force to make him Bandh compliant amounts to coercion and law of the land must ensure that he is freed from the captors. ^^^^^^^^^

JULY 2021 REFLECTIONS

Leave your conquests and defeats behind, if you like to withdraw into seclusion. xxx Plucking flowers and fruits from someone else's garden before the first cawing of the morning crow is not the way to start your day with. xxx The injury keep paining because I kept thinking about it. xxxx A society that's unkind to wildlife is arrogant, cruel and intolerant. Deficient in sensitivity, it soon becomes unkind to humans as well. xxxxx Shacks, hundreds of chairs and tables on Beaches of Odisha is one of the weirdest ideas on tourism promotion. How can you make Divine vastness of the beach-sand degenerate --- used for Barbecuing? Beaches are best left unspoiled to make your soul shine. xxxxxx School without Internet facility is akin to a Hospital without Oxygen and India needs to demonstrate the same amount of concern for such Schools as it did for Hospitals without Oxygen. Over 97% of Odisha's Govt Schools go without Internet connection despite so many school development initiates launched by Government with high-pitch publicity. xxxxxx The off-the-shelf Garlic-Ginger paste has never been my favourite. It's like the Rabbit-Camel Kebab in the apocryphal story at a fancy Restaurant in an exotic island that supposedly used the ingredients in equal proportion-- one leg of camel and one leg of rabbit. xxxxxxx