Effecting fuel efficiency and how to make it more economical to drive a vehicle largely depends on the type of car you drive and on what road conditions you take. Because no matter how fuel efficient is your car for as long as the traffic is terrible and the road conditions are worse than expected, […]
ZEN AND THE SUNDAY MORNING RIDE
ZEN AND THE SUNDAY MORNING MOTORCYCLE RIDE By Warren D. Jorgensen I rolled up to the light and stopped, the muffled throbbing of the engine beneath me the sole sound in the morning air, the only other movement the sun rising slowly over Westchester, warming my back. A cool brisk wind blew out of the […]
An Inscription, Somewhere Near Mount Conner
with spinifex twig plucked from thorny nest and put to the work of hands your cherished name I did engrave, cursive, upon rippled ochre sands of mala plain where cassia weeps and table-topped mesa commands in rocky crevice scattered passion-seed of wildflower has fallen to rest, biding drought and fire as seasons bring […]
Bollywood Scores ‘Hat Trick’
While the Cricket World Cup tournament is in full gear, where hat tricks are imminent, Indian film director Milan Luthria is up to scoring another sort of ‘Hat Trick.’ In his new movie, Luthria’s concept of hat trick is not getting three wickets in three consecutive balls as in cricket, but about 3 successes of […]
Fond reminiscences of a visitor from PoK
POONCH, JAMMU, APRIL 17-It was reunion of the body and the soul of a kind. Probably an intoxicating and overwhelming experience for 76-year-old Abdul Majid Durrani, a resident of PoK, who visited Poonch after 59 years and danced to the beats of dhols to celebrate Baisakhi. For seventy six-year-old Abdul Majid Durrani, and hundreds of […]
Indian Supreme Court Stays Reservations, Killing Millions of Hopes
The Indian Supreme Court has put on hold reservations which were proposed in unison by the Indian parliament, thus challenging the writ of the government once again in the country. The Reservations were meant to provide 27 percent to students from socially and educationally backward classes in all centraly funded institutions in the country. However, […]