This New Year

I let the wind scatter my fancies
I let my thoughts be swept away
I wonder whether I will be back
As I prepare, from the path to stray
I wish a few wishes; make a resolution or two
Enjoy the cheer, the good will
I wonder whether I will be back
I wonder if I’ll go away
Happy New Year, everyone!

Waiting for you

Yes, you!
The statcounter on the blog says 9,999.

In the Sunday papers

This and this.
So, while Swaminathan Aiyar celebrates the “TV jury”, Sevanti Ninan says the mediator is disappearing from media. Here’s Mr. Aiyar:
In fact, hundreds of private TV channels in all languages have now made possible a judicial revolution. TV viewers have been transformed from a passive audience into judicial activists.
…
Is this trial by media? No. [...]

Look how tall…!!

I used to be regular GuardianOnline reader once. Now I’m rather erratic about it, mostly because the Hindu has started carrying some of the Guardian Op-Eds.
So today’s Hindu also has one of those: a column by Hasan Suroor on the debate over the Ipswich murders.

Except one who came from a broken family, others were described [...]

Ever changing, and yet the same

I went to see the sun rise over the Taj Mahal, once again. No budding romances this time, just one 28 years old, and the results of it.
The ASI plaque outside the Taj tells us that the beauty of the Taj stems from its ever-changing background: the sky.
Rather like love, no?
Anyway, here are Pooh’s attempts [...]

Masculine beauty and suchlike

Well, the furious (by the standards of this blog) commenting on the previous post led to much thinking on beauty, and masculine beauty, and lots of other things. And ever notice how sometimes everything you read and watch and hear seems to tie up neatly with what you’re thinking? Well, that happened too.
It wasn’t just [...]

Paper planes

A bunch of paper’s gone flying today, and I can’t call it back. There’s this terrible feeling that this was a BIG BIG BIG mistake, but now I can’t do anything about it. What’s worse, I have to carry it through and finish it!
I bought Dad On Beauty for his birthday, and as usual, finished [...]