After months of harrowing winter, which, incidentally was a mild winter by US standards, the Spring has finally arrived. The first indication was people begining to shed their clothes. Bright sunshine, longer days, colourful trees, blooming flowers and liveliness all around just confirmed the onset of the spring season. A walk across The Oval is almost necessary everyday (Equally compelling is a game of Frisby there). The other day, walking across The Oval, I found two girls sitting in front of hundreds of paper windmills. They had erected 3500 of them in support of the over 7000 victims of child abuse cases in Ohio alone. The following picture, apart from being a photo shoot, also expresses solidarity with their cause.
Round-up of the events around the world:
Before the spring could arrive, the heat was already being turned on by the controversial, national debates, both in the US and in India. Bush tried to appease the Mexican population by introducing the Immigration Bill. The Bill sought to legalize the stay of nearly 12 million illegal Mexicans living in the US by asking them to first accept their illegal status and later imposing a token fine on them. The Bill, which generated heated debates and concerns, ultimately fell through and this was another loss of face for the already battered Bush administration.
Half-way across the globe, it was the turn of the Congress Government to propose the 49.5% Reservation Bill in India. It is election time in 5 of the key states and something of this sort was possible, though, not fully expected. Seen to be losing ground in these states, HRD Minister Arjun Singh marshalled his team and played the Mandal card, exactly 15 years after VP Singh had tried it rather unsuccessfully. Such a bill, if ever introduced, will be modern India's undoing after all the reputation it has built for itself as the technology manpower provider to the whole world. God save India!
Round-up of the events around the world:
Before the spring could arrive, the heat was already being turned on by the controversial, national debates, both in the US and in India. Bush tried to appease the Mexican population by introducing the Immigration Bill. The Bill sought to legalize the stay of nearly 12 million illegal Mexicans living in the US by asking them to first accept their illegal status and later imposing a token fine on them. The Bill, which generated heated debates and concerns, ultimately fell through and this was another loss of face for the already battered Bush administration.
Half-way across the globe, it was the turn of the Congress Government to propose the 49.5% Reservation Bill in India. It is election time in 5 of the key states and something of this sort was possible, though, not fully expected. Seen to be losing ground in these states, HRD Minister Arjun Singh marshalled his team and played the Mandal card, exactly 15 years after VP Singh had tried it rather unsuccessfully. Such a bill, if ever introduced, will be modern India's undoing after all the reputation it has built for itself as the technology manpower provider to the whole world. God save India!
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