Independence Day

Sixty two years since we became an independent country and i have lived every one of them. Was i just seven years old when our country ran up its own flag? But i still remember the midnight candle marches,the awestruck wonder when one looked at the new flag and the feeling of pride when it ran up the flagstaff.
I was a member of the boy scouts at that time, or was it the younger version called the cubs.I forget.But distributing paper flags to everyone in the school was a task for which i was chosen and felt utterly important while doing this.
My only regret is that somehow the citizens of our country seem to have forgotten what a country means and what is required to be done for it. We only seem to remember India when a cricket match is being played. Rest of the time the chemists are busy taking advantage of swine flu and fleecing the public when they sell those masks. The politician is only interested in the security that he has got and the contracts that he can influence. The trader is only interested in the obscene profit that he can make by creating an artificial shortage.

What do I do with the milliseconds

My son insisted that I upgrade my browser to IE8 from the IE7 that I was using. In fact I was still not too comfortable with IE7 having installed it a couple of months back after years with the old familiar IE6. I am told that the IE8 is much faster than the IE7 by a few milliseconds.
My point is what do I do with the milliseconds that I have saved.To old fogies like me, seconds and minutes have no meaning. Even hours and days seem to have lost their relevance. One lives in months and years and in one's memories. Was it in the year 2007 that I had that that brush with cancer or was it the year before. Does it really matter. The years have gone by taking all the millions of milliseconds with them and I am still unsure of what to do with those that I am supposed to have saved with the faster browsers.
If there had been some way of saving them so that they made any difference to my tired body and mind, I would have welcomed it. But these savings are not cashable or even usable, when one is really living life one day at a time and not thinking of the next one.

Subjects for this blog

Deciding on a subject to write on is as mystifying as ever. I decided on at least three topics since I logged on to the blog today. But every time after I had typed a few lines, fell into a quandary on whether the subject was the right one to post. i started with trying to write an article on green homes, but soon came up against the realization that i would require to research the subject quite a bit before being able to write sensibly on it. Then started an article on the insurance of cars, but found the subject so boring and repetitive that I gave up that as well. Recycling of plastics was the next subject that I thought about and came bang against my limited knowledge in that area.
That is when I decided to write the blog on subjects for a blog.

Why this blog

Writing is a hobby. A lot of friends and well wishers feel I should be doing more than just writing. Hence this blog is an attempt to make my writing more accessible to people on the net. In this blog I will be posting a lot of articles that I have written on a variety of subjects. If you like the writing and think I can help you with your website content just e-mail me at jayantrow@gmail.com. Let us see if I can write for you.