A Day in India: Photo Blog

The guest writer for this week is Akila Venkataramani

Yes I AM a ‘proud Indian’. I know we were the ‘discoverers’ of ZERO. We were the ones who taught Pythagoras his own theorem. We are one of the rapidly ‘developing’ countries in the world (yeah right. Ours is the only case where the ‘present tense’ has a long lost ‘past’). And we belong to that country which was ‘freed’ by Mahatma Gandhi because of his one ‘stern’ order…QUIT INDIA! (Lol! Sorry couldn’t help. Does this mean that freedom fighters such as Bhagat Singh and Subhash Chandra Bose were playing Mafia Wars as there was no Facebook during their time?)

Having (sarcastically) said the above, I wish to bring it to your notice that I did not mean to offend any of your beliefs or pride (phew…that was close!). I am a person who believes ‘No one is perfect! Not even God! (If he was, then he wouldn’t have created me in the first place!). We are all faulty. We live ‘with’ it and we live ‘amongst’ it.  India sets an ‘interesting’ example this way.

The below are my personal ‘mind picked’ observations until now.