And the past few weeks

After the viral have been quite hectic..... catching up with work and all the fun that i missed out on including regular workouts in the gym........ have finally started the 'eat less and eat healthy' phase of my own arbit diet plan and supplemented it with regular workouts . we should see some results in the next coyple of months i hope ...

So what else is new - hmmmmm lets see - i read David Davidar's 'House of Blue Mangoes' . I don't read indian authors much but this was quite a good book . the best part about davidar's prose is that he manages to strike the fine balance between being too prosaic and being overtly lyrical. so, the narrative is crisp yet detailed in the right manner and actually encourages the reader to visualize each moment in the book. The book primarily deals with the lives and times of the Dorais - the principal family in themythical town of Chevathar, in the backdrop of caste issues and violence.

Now this indeed was an eye opener for me since hitherto i had always assumed that caste based politics was the exclusive domain of the north and bihar belt. then i did some digging after i read the book and figured that the south has it's own issues as well! We indians are major racists in our own way , we don't go the 'gora vs. darkie' route ...... we just discriminate among our own people based on a some societal structure created aeons ago and outdated beyond repair . And then, we are properly outraged when an indian abroad is insulted on racist lines. I mean when will we learn that we need to clean our own backyard first before we even ask the world to respect us as indians.