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'Optimist'ize Your Life!

'Optimist'ize Your Life! Ganga Prasad G. Rao http://myprofile.cos.com/gangar “Be an Optimist”, they said “Smile and look around, the world is bright glamorous and beautiful” Persuaded, I have shed my pessimist snake-skin, peeled away my morose face (even shaved my week-long stubble!) And now, sporting a silly smile I have turned, overnight, a 'born-again optimist' livin' the good life, ignoring matters mundane, and anything beyond instant comprehension Wishing away all grey clouds of tomorrow in to the enjoyment of the now I am an Optimist, therefore I am! No longer do I trek weekends run along the beach at dawn Vocational training? Evening college? No, not for me With latest sunglasses, lotsa macho stuff a bike from hell, and boots to fit No book worth the thrill of a babe riding pillion curling her hands 'round me as we zoom away to the mall Gotta meet friends, live up the life, check out movies, the music, the moves and the shakes SMS every gimmick there is ...

Global Warming, the Movie - Cycle III

Global Warming, the Movie - Cycle III Ganga Prasad G. Rao http://myprofile.cos.com/gangar Ever wondered why no Indian actor or actress ever made it to a James Bond movie? Or, for that matter, an Indian fiction author? Because there is no 'story', no 'plot', no 'real-life conspiracy' to base it on. Get it? So, as a favor to my more illustrious colleagues in the film industry, here is my outline for a 'James Bond' movie. I have named it 'Global Warming, the Movie - Cycle III' (No apologies to Al Gore!). You may want to rename it 'Mother of All Conspiracies'. Once, there were a group of politicians who, for various reasons not related to character, intelligence, performance, principles (too much of it, of course), fell out of grace and power. Not finding any takers, they decided to get together. In trying to accommodate each other's past, they committed to certain wrongs in the future, so no one among them get away leaving the rest behi...

Sane Insane?

Sane Insane? Ganga Prasad G. Rao http://myprofile.cos.com/gangar What is sanity? A state of mind? Behavior consistent with society's norms and expectations of the inferiors? Following traditions of the majority going about the routine timidly, unobtrusively and unnoticed so not to raise the ire of households, neighbors or the powers that be? Accepting established rules and institutions stacked against the commons? Disappearing and dissolving in to the multitudes of those gone by, in to an oblivion of the ordinary? And, pray, what is insanity? Unmitigated, unexpressed frustration against injustice – stark yet private, gory yet informal; Anger at denials and insults umpteen attempts on life, mail fraud, forgery, intimidation IPR theft, smoking, gassing, witch craft, you name it? Outrage against relatives who sold out to enrich themselves while snaring the family deeper in web? Fighting every stone cast by neighbors while living in the glasshouse of an 'executive test' one did...