Indian Idol

Oct. 2 nd was Mahatma Gandhi 's birth anniversary known as Gandhi Jayanti. It has been declared as International Non Violence Day by the UN.

An editorial in the Hindustan Times newspaper says;The first thing you notice in the picture (of the bank note) is Gandhi smiling,which is delightfully wicked.The editorial goes on the say ; while Gandhi 's soul -bending battles with injustice can never be underplayed, the manner in which he defused critics and churlish adversaries should be a lesson to many of us today who start foaming at our mouths or worse each time we feel slighted.Imagine how Indians would have responded to Winston Churchill 's 1931 jibe of Gandhi being a 'half naked fakir ' today.Replying to a journalist whether he didn 't feel under-dressed to meet the King in his dhoti (a cloth wrapped around his waist). Gandhi replied,"The King has enough on for both of us".Gandhi indeed was a great man. He was nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize , but was set aside.Now the Nobel Committee regrets it.Gandhi was deeply influenced by Christ and the sermon on the mount.

On the right- school children dressed like Gandhi and his followers.

Got a phone call from a cousin who is living abroad.She married twice and both her marriages have failed Her first husband was an Italian and the present one is British.She just made wrong choices, got them from the Internet.There are so many Internet marriage horror stories.

Yesterday I got an electrician to do a lot of electrical revamping in the house.And I watched a useless movie called "Single White Female-Psycho 2. Just to get over India 's poor performance in their cricket match against Australia. Now lets see how these Indian idols fare in Friday 's match in Hyderabad.Chak De India!