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HOW I QUIT SMOKING From school days at the age of around 10/12 I took a fancy to smoke and now and then used to smoke a cigarette just for fun along with other students when we went to beach to take a dip skipping classes. It was a daring adult like act, very macho then. Around 17 after finishing highschool I took up a job and started earning on my own. My first cigarette was Chesterfield, an extra length cigarette, costing 2.5 annas (Around 1955 it was probably equal to 15p when my salary per day worked out to just Rs.2/-! As I went up from job to job, salary also increased and by the age of 25 I was a regular smoker. It started with about a pack of 10 and went on increasing. At the height of my smoking, I was a chain smoker, smoking out 2 to 3 packs of 25 king size Wills! My day started with lighting it up and ended with dropping a lighted cigarette on the floor while I went to sleep. Did I enjoy smoking? This question was addressed to me by a elderly fellow passenger in tr

SHOULD PM LET RAJAN GO? May be. It will be Rajan's choice. If you want to climb the Everest you should always have its crown in your view though you will be climbing step by step. There will always be problems, but the wise keep on moving up with focus on their steps without harping too much upon difficulties involved.  We have a very vocal opposition to keep the brakes on more than necessary. If Rajan gives more fodder to them and authenticates their fear mongering, may be it is time PM lets him go.

NDTV HAS CORRECTED BEEN IDENTIFIED AS PRESSTITUTE: Just like a pimp carrying out orders of her pimp! If someone writes a congratulatory letter, does it mean he has capitulated? Since Advani has not done so, will it mean he is a confirmed critic of all things Modi? It is time people read any news with a little more attention than they pay now. These small words like 'capitulated' inserted strategically while seemingly informing you about a fact, subtly convey a view on that 'fact' also. When you read them together and accept the fact (which you will do as it is in fact a fact!) you will also accept the implied sense also, which exactly what the media is trying to sell you on behalf of its pay masters. Remember you hardly pay anything to the media in return for the 'news' they serve you. All their payments come to them from their masters whom they serve faithfully. Freeloaders like you can go to dogs for all they care. One easy way to correctly read any news

Someone  wrote about that situation in a brilliant manner explaining democracy and the Constitution: “ The founders did not want an efficient government. They feared tyranny and created a regime that made governance difficult. Power was diffused among local, state and federal governments, each with their own rights and privileges. Even the legislative branch was divided into two houses. It was a government created to do little, and what little it could do was meant to be done slowly. The founders' fear was simple: Humans are by nature self-serving and prone to corruption. Thus the first purpose of the regime was to pit those who wished to govern against one other in order to thwart their designs. Except for times of emergency or of overwhelming consensus, the founders liked what we today call gridlock ”.