India’s chances look really bleak in an attempt to procure a permanent seat in the Security Council at the UN. If you remember, India is a part of the G4 countries (Germany, Japan, Brazil & India) which are lobbying for the seats and each one of them is facing stiff opposition from their neighbours. Pakistan, of course is opposing this move.
But I strongly support India’s candidature, not simply because I am an Indian but India has played an active role in the UN eversince it was born (India was one of the founding fathers) or be it the various peacekeeping missions that she undertook for the organisation. Also it’s logical to make the world’s second most populated and the fastest growing economy to be in the global state of affairs.
It surprised me to no limit today when I read that US has rubbished the G4 nominations. The confusion prevails as Africa now wants a bigger share in the pie. Whats the basis of being elected as a permamanent member? Let’s get that right first. And if India does get the seat then it should be with the veto powers and not just the seat itself. No arguments about that.
July 13th, 2005
It’s swelteringly hot and HUMID in Mumbai and the rain is sort of teasing us here. It falls for sometime then its sunny the other. I am sick of this hide-n-seek game that the weather gods have been playing with me @#$% It gets so stuffy in the train sometimes that you can’t help but watch the other person drip on your Arrow or Louis Phillipe :-)
The average Indian likes to SIT wherever he goes. My friend Randhir has a very good theory about this which predates to our ancestors. India faced famines for centuries and thus her people needed to conserve energy in whatever way they could and hence the sitting posture carried forward from generations after generations. Hmm…interesting. But if you ever travel by the local trains, it is painful to stand for one hour and looking around, you find people nicely dozing off, sometimes salivating as they dream.
Hence..(back to the original topic)….I hope it rains so I forget whatever happens around me. Amen! :-)
July 12th, 2005
I seem to have gone mad after I was introduced to
Corel Painter and
WACOM Intous by Shyam. Infact I was ruing about the fact that I could not get the tabby on saturday itself :-( But anyways, I am trying to pick the basics right now although doing the same with a mouse seems very difficult but I will manage till this weekend when the tabby will be there for me :-)
I went to Jayant’s place for a luncheon and a get-together today. I liked the place a lot which is located at Prabhadevi, right next to the Arabian Sea & the view from his 9th floor apartment is fantastic. I found a few books on art at his house and it caught my fancy immediately. I did mention earlier that I now want to diversify into fine arts with the aim of digitalising and the book on the Louvre Art Gallery put more oil in the already raging fire inside me. Anyways, the food was good and both Jayant and Ranjana were excellent hosts for the day. Thanks a million:-)
Since I and Aadesh are spiritually inclined we decided to drop by the Prabhadevi Siddhivinayak temple to pay our respects to Ganesh. If there was anything that caught our attention instantly, it was the high security presence there after the Ayodhya incident. It seemed more like coming to some airport or a defence facility rather than a temple. Sadly, it seems like Lord Ganpati will have to live with this for sometime now.
July 10th, 2005
I met Shyam from the
SurfUnion gang for the IAF Aeroshow at Mumbai. Before that he had already carved a name for himself by posting some awesome sketches from his portfolio. The guys at SurfUnion instantly developed a liking for this “great” illustrator since they hadn’t seen anything like this before. Shyam was working for CHIP magazine at that point of time. If you really want to know who shyam is then you should see some of his work
here and
here. And this
work is his self portrait which he revealed today that he used only a mirror (to see himself) and a mouse with Adobe Illustrator (gulp!). Also you can find him at his
GFXArtist page where he has a good fan-following.
He’s now off to IDG at Bangalore which publishes such magazines like MacWorld, PC World, etc on a global platform. Since this was going to be his last weekend in Mumbai I decided to spend some time with him. Actually he’s inspired me a lot to take up illustration since I do some caricatures and hence we had decided to buy the WACOM Intuos for myself from Andheri but it could not happen. Later we went to Cafe Coffee Day at Carter Road and then loitered around the promenade there itself. The evening was supposed to be over by 6:00pm but we went for a dinner at Golden Orchid & rounded it off with a Sundae Treat at Cream Center.
It was a great evening no doubt where we discussed, gossiped, shared jokes, & whatever else that means fun :-) Good Luck Shyambhau. I will see you at Bangalore someday…definitely :-)
July 10th, 2005
