A sad day

My good friend, more of an elder sister to me, Chetana died in a horrific accident on Monday morning (09/20/2004). I am in a complete shock. Chetana was a cheerful lady who usually played the prankster in our team at Honeywell India.

Suddenly everything seems unimportant. Death really gives a perspective. How people cope up with the loss of the loved ones? It seems so unreal. We were chatting few months back and it seemed like the old days at Honeywell India. My thoughts are not so coherent. I am little lost as memories come back flooding.

God takes away people whom he really likes at a very young age. My prayers are with her family and especially Prashant her husband with whom she spent her best part of the last decade.

Sport and Politics

Sports and politics ideally should be twains that shall never meet. But as usual they meet more often than you would like. Probably that is because you can never compartmentalize things. Everything has something of the other and influence one another.
The saddest thing I read in recent times was the recent Asia Cup football final between Japan and China in Beijing. The Chinese really hate the Japanese due to the Imperial Japan's atrocities during the World War II in the mainland. But then by any token, booing Japanese national anthem was disgraceful.
It reminds of Valluvar's saying which roughly translates to,
"If someone does something bad to you, then shame him by doing good to him". He also adds that if you end up trying to be as bad as him then there is no difference between you and the other guy. Hope sometime that everybody in this world follows the Valluvarian path. Alas, we don't live in an ideal world!