Rumi Nations

After their Google Earth, driverless cars and Google Glass projects, this is one more innovative, useful, and important project from Google. These resources that Google is developing using Landsat imagery from NASA and USGS provide a revealing picture of how humans are transforming the planet in short spans of time. Such continuous record has never been available before and starting from now onward or since satellites started taking pictures of the Earth's surface, these pictorial records of our planet will be maintained forever as long as humans live on Earth. So wear your seat belts and explore ! Since Google is partnering with Time magazine, this article is worth a read!

I was wondering about the actors who portrayed various gods on those TV serials about two decades back. Many of the 'important' gods of course managed to leverage their roles in quite remarkable and unrelated ways. Many of the gods became politicians and representatives of the people of India. But then their political careers sort of fizzled out as the people decided that perhaps they didn't want these gods to represent them. Even as actors, I do not think any of these guys either were exceptional in their profession to begin with or rose to any great heights afterwards. Perhaps this shows that playing god is a rather easy job as far as acting jobs go. Which would seem to indicate that the 'story' itself was rather weak if the main characters are rather unremarkable. Indeed, the mythologies are more or less like children's fables written millennia ago that have lost much of their relevance today. The basic assumption that something written ages ago would contain...

What was there before the toothbrush? The twig of course. Has it died down? No sir! Not in India. It’s still very much the in-thing in rural India. But what surprised me somewhat is this spectacle of seeing policemen using twigs in Gurgaon. Well, I guess you discover many unexpected facets of India on those early morning walks — if you bother to venture outside of the confines of your apartment complex. I am left wondering if the policemen use twigs out of cultural habit or to save money or out of convenience. I would be interested in hearing the opinion of the readers about what they think. I saw more this morning. One sturdy Haryanvi policeman climbed a tree on the periphery of the police station this morning — presumably to collect a twig for brushing his tooth. I am not quite sure as to the purpose of this energetic activity as the line of sight from me to him was not quite unobstructed. What does this say — about policemen in particular and Indians in general? I do not know. I am ...

Well, it seems the Government of India is up to its usual censoring ways ... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126327347865425871.html?mod=WSJ_hp_us_mostpop_read It's not as bad as what the Chinese are doing in battling Google. The Internet is awash in pornography and the feeble attempts of the Govt. of India won't be able to stem the tide. The Govt. should merely restrict itself to ensuring that there's no child pornography or trafficking of humans. There are problems galore for the Govt. to worry about as it is ...