"I did my Ph.d, an F.A.R.C.S and Mathematical geometry but ultimately decided a career in "UNEMPLOYMENT"!? 'You only live once, make the best use of missed as well as accepted opportunities that come your way in life.'

Somali ship piracy?

Communal riots have always been a part of our Indian history as also the celebration of multicultural religious festivals.
"Ganpatti Bappa Maurya,Pudliya Varshi Lavkar Yaa" is the common chants of "Ganesh Chaturthi" ,a festival symbolic with Maharashtra."Iftaar tea party's" are also a celebration during "Ramzaan Idd" which coincides with "Ganpati" and the entire city is decorated with lights, a festive atmosphere that rivals Hong-Kong and Singapore during "Christmas and New-Year".
As for yours truely, intend celebrating Christmas or New-Year in Israel, far from the "Madding Crowd".

"He who rules Malacca has Venice by the throat" is the quote of Malacca, passage to the largest Sea traffic and piracy prior to its position being usurped by Somalia.
Remember "BLACK HAWK DOWN".
As of September 2008 there is a queue of "Hijacked ships" waiting to be released on ransom in Somalian waters, a far cry from the days of "Black Beard", "Captain Morgan" and Long John Silver.
Whats happening in 2008 is fact and less of fiction.

Jim Corbett is synonymous for his sensational bestseller "The Man-Eaters of Kumaon" written in an era when tigers were as common as common cats in Indian forests.
The late 20th and early 21st century has given rise to a new elite group of human writers who have replaced "Tiger-hunting" with "Human-Hunting" . They are "THE POLICE ENCOUNTER SPECIALISTS".
The ultimate prize for them being ,"The maximum score of Encounters"?
We humans are a strange species.

"Gays" in India have come out of their "CLOSETS", something unimaginable in the 1990's thanks to "Gay Indian Icons, a La Rohit Khosla ,Ashok Row Kavi ,Wendell Rodricks and Anup Mathur".
Being a Bachelor or a spinster in India is difficult, one is either "Branded" a "Homosexual or a Lesbian" or an "Impotent or Frigid" but never a "PURE LOVER?"
Has anyone tackled the subject of "MALE RAPE" ? Come on "Males", come out of the "Rape Closets", sure, "Male Rape" is as common as "Female Rape" though never discussed since its a "TABOO TOPIC".

"WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU DON'T SEE,WHAT YOU HEAR IS WHAT YOU SHOULD NOT HEAR"?

DOES BLOGGING HAVE THEREUPETHIC VALUE ON HUMAN HEALTH?

U.S Dollars 8 billion in a "SWISS BANK ACCOUNT"? Yes,in the account of race-horse owner Mr Hassan Ali Khan.
Anyone remotely interested in the World of "Horse politics and Horse racing" would find the name Hassan Ali Khan a "Name-dropper" in a World of mega rich Industrialists and celibrities.
But 8 billion dollars linked to a name could even make Mr Mukesh Ambani seem a moderately successful Industrialist!
No more Mr Hassan Ali Khan, WHO???

The generation of "2008- Bejing Olympics" can consider themselves fortunate for witnessing two "SUPERHUMAN INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS" in the Olympics. a once in a 100 years achievement.
Michael Phelps eight golds in Swimming and Ussain Bolt's "World trotting record " in the glamour "!00 metres sprint" are memories for a lifeline.
We Indians will also remember the Olympics-2008 for a shy "10 metre air rifle" shooter named Abhinav Bindra.