Jana Gana Mana in a New Light

So Ram Singh Thakur composed the tune for Jana Gana Mana, our National Anthem, as we sing it now. A lot of people we asked did not have the right answer, some did, and some confessed to cheating and looking up the internet.
Now Wikipedia says on the ‘net that this man gave us our national [...]

No, I did not vote

…because my vote should matter if I matter. And so far, I don’t. Neither do you…not to them anyway.

I Smoke, Therefore I Am

I have often had to defend my attitude towards the no-smoking law, and yet again a post made in response to mine has got me writing. Why do I bother? Because I believe in what I have said, or say about Ramadoss’ diktat. And I would not really go back on that no matter how [...]

To Smoke or Not To Smoke

India has done it again. Smoking has been banned from public places, predictably from the birthday of Gandhi. They imply cigarettes only I think, because the “smoking” of Christians, their homes and churches, continues unabated through the nation.
On a less irreverent note, with all of India’s cries over equality, this new law just proves that [...]