Dance dance

Happy Diwali

"Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine."

The festival of lights stands for the victory of the good over the evil, but I believe it should be celebrated as a festival of sharing and compassion. Until the unfortunate of this world are helped, the world will remain shackled by the devil. This diwali and ever after lend a helping hand, and then the victory of good over evil will be complete.

Some trivia about diwali:

• Bhagwan Mahavir, the Jain prophet, attained Nirvana on this day.
• Kerela is probably the only Indian state where even Hindus do not celebrate Diwali.
• Lord Krishna discarded his body on Diwali day.
• Diwali is also celebrated in Gkyena, Thailand, Trinidad, Siam, Malaya and Singapore.
• Sivakasi. a small town in Tamil Nadu, is the biggest home to the fireworks industry in India. And almost all workers in Sivakasi are below employable age.

In the seventh heaven

Income disparity in India

Its interesting how the income disparity in India has shown a sharp increase since 1990. Incidently that was around the same time India opened up to globalization. Another interesting observation is that the income disparity actually decreases from a period of 1960-1990 indicative of the socialistic nature of government.

Tsongo Lake

Tsongo lake, is one of the most sacred lakes in Sikkim. It is fed by the melting snow during summer and stays frozen during the winter. According to local folklore, polluting the pristine lake would be catastrophic for the world at large.

Ye hai Mumbai Meri jaan!!

Only local train passengers in Bombay will know how helpful commuters try to be....... Last week, a hapless victim fell prey to the over enthusiastic Bombay 's local train commuters.

Our hero, a man from Pune, wanted to go to Matunga, but as luck and Trains would have it, boarded a fast train not halting at his destination. He panicked on realizing his mistake but by then the local had started moving. On seeing his plight, a sympathetic co-passenger decided to come to his rescue.

It seemed that he had been commuting by that particular train (6:03 pm Kasara Fast) for the past 6 years and had noticed that the train always slowed down just before Matunga station and crawled at a snail's pace while passing through it. He told the man to jump out of the running train as it slowed down and that with a little bit of fleet-footedness, he would make it safely on terra firma. However, knowing the man's inexperience, he added some words of caution:

"Keep running the moment you jump or you'll fall. Just keep running." He stressed the word "running" lest the man not know the laws of motion. The train d id slow down just before Matunga station and at the prompting of His mentor, our hero jumped out of the train and started running as if all Hell had broken loose.

What he didn't realize, of course, was that he was running parallel to the train instead of running away from it. Meanwhile, the train slowed down further, so that the man was running faster than the train. In the process, he reached the door of the next compartment and the foot board commuters there pulled him in thinking he was trying to board the train!

To his agony, the train picked up speed and sped past Matunga and his new co-passengers started to congratulate him on how lucky he had been, until he told them that they had actually undone what he had done with great difficulty.

Those standing at the door of his "ex-compartment" had witnessed the whole drama and just couldn't stop laughing at the poor man's situation, while he grinned sheepishly!!!

I had such a good laugh, cause I kept imagining this guy running.

Source: Mumbaikar.com

I am frankly shocked to hear about this. Don't these people have a better way of fighting back?