Suksy's Pensieve

Well, there are a few things which you feel like doing and you end up doing it in a way which is not satisfying! This trip to Mysore was one of them. Anyday, I'd love to ride down to Mysore. The first trip took 3 hrs while going and 3 hrs 45 mins while returning to Bangalore. The second trip was much better.. Took just 2 hrs while going and 2 hrs while returning. The best part of the ride was that we (me and NP) rode at a modest speed of 90 kmph both ways and took a 15 min break at Maddur (the so-called half way point b/n Bangalore and Mysore). Details of the trip: Time of departure from Bangalore - 6 AM on 15th July Starting kms: 4404 Time of reaching Mysore - 8AM Time of finishing Breakfast @ Guruprasad - 8 25 Dumped bags and helmet @ Lytton's place Reached CFTRI School by 8 45 Met Aunty Geetha/Lokamatha/Satnam/Deenamma and many other teachers... relived the old memories of school Left school to reach Kukkarahalli kere by 10 - Spent abt 40 mins there Left Kukkarahalli kere to...

A ploy to lure votes If the government is interested in poverty alleviation, it must adopt affirmative action and not caste-based reservation — Ramnath Narayanswamy Few will deny the need for affirmative action. Close to sixty years after independence, we still have more than two hundred million people who are very poor. This is a matter of shame. The need for affirmative action is unquestionable. Caste-based reservations might have been valid in the fifties where there might have been an affinity between depressed castes and their economic status. Is it true today? Do we have supporting data? The UPA government's explicit intention to do away with any modicum of public debate and discussion fuels the suspicion that it is bent upon a political vote-catching agenda. By reducing affirmative action exclusively to job-reservations and quotas in institutes of higher education, the Indian political class has abdicated its responsibility to make primary education system robust. It has p...