This whole last MONTH....!   From All Saints to HIV/ Aids Day.... it has   been one helluva month... Pardon the language. 

NO sense of celebration at the arrival of the Festival / Wedding Season... Instead a strange fatigue, almost wariness of any invitation card...

News stories SCREAMING out horror after horror ... Day after blessed day ...almost having us duck at the very sight of the morning newspaper..  Let's see...

Nuke deal unresolved with all the parties still to sort out their agendas....

Nandigram a burning issue.... Left Front and Congress play it out for brownie points...   Temporary appeasements...instead of  effective solutions the order of the day.

Nasreen, Taslima adding her own inimitable,  attention getting complications to the whole scene in Bengal.  

Nithari murders still to be unravelled and the guitly brought to book.   Crime goes on unabated in all corners ... Cases on girl child abuse/ incest, in a State that prides itself of 100% literacy, brings sorry sleaze to Front Page news.

Nursery admission procedures still UNresolved despite more than a year of dithering back and forth, Ganguly commission recommedations...notwithstanding.   This is a Developing country where Education is the crying Need of the hour!

Non starter return to fame for 'sab ki pasand'  Madhuri Dixit.....  bar Mayawati,  Her Aaja Nachle.... relaunch has been spooked by supposedly  politically incorrect lyrics..  The dumbfounded ex diva claims she just wanted to dance... Didn't heed the lyrics......

NO thrills evoked by the Indo Pak ongoing cricket series.   It just  failed to rivet our attention or raise spirits... Some matches were almost missed.. Instead,  BCCI's sorry back room drama over Coach recruitment / Selection scandals and suchlike taking precedence..

NCR, end of the month, quake in Delhi/ Haryana came almost as no surprise... Though it did underline how UNprepared we are to deal with any natural disasters. 

Certainly makes me wonder if we are at the end of Kalyug, or still in Biblical times.....facing the 'wrath of God'  in so many ways...for choosing to destroy the Earth and the lives of our Young Ones with rampant consumerism,  junk food, yuppiedom, breaking of the Family system.   And close to zero communication between family and friends....despite the mind boggling array of gadgets and systems in place...

NO time for family, friends, even health, Or helping others less fortunate than us..    The less said about forgotten animals and plants around us..... Who cares....?   From top Govt official down to us and neighbourhood maali..... We couldn't bet on anyone..

Thought i'd wait out the weekend for SOME ideas , something positive to share....but ...........NOTHING so far.

Sorry folks....  But am NOT  giving up..  Putting my thinking cap on , and retiring... NOw THERE's an idea...

See you later.... Any/ All  Practical solutions welcome..

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