Streams

I remember reading Nitish Kumar (Bihar CM) long time back. After he has done some praiseworthy work in Bihar and people recognizing him he said something really thoughtful, which we don't generally expect from politicians in our country. He said that now there are two streams in Bihar, one of naysayers and other of believers. People who have hope and belief that things can indeed change for better. And this stream is getting broader.
At different time in different political scene this can be applied again to the stream Aam Aadmi Party has created. Rough estimate reported here says they spent 5% of what BJP or Congress spent for Delhi election 2013 . They actually stopped taking donations after hitting goal of INR 20 crores. This is the party which is selling a dream of clean and effective governance. They better live upto it. To expect them to be 100% ideal would not be fair. This is not a utopian world. Even if they deliver 80% of their promise, by comparison, they would be decisively better than most other political outfits out there.

So now we all have a choice again; to be part of one of the two streams. This is the point in time where the river divides. It is not too soon to make a call. I chose to be a believer. No good can happen unless we believe it can. There is not much good either in flowing with the other stream anyway.

"You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one. I hope some day you may join us."

Pile of dirt

Yesterday when I was cooking mustard greens I had to clean it. Like clean it thoroughly in running water. Whenever you cook green leafy vegetables make sure you clean them by immersing them in water. If you don't do it you eat some dirt with your food. Is it bad to eat a little bit of dirt? After all what are we? Pile of dirt held together by some biological processes.