thoughts

I have been back from Cape Verde for a week now and finally I have enough time to get around telling you about all the fun I had. (lucky you!) But before I get around to figuring out how to show you the millions of pictures which I took during my three weeks there, there are more important things to talk about.

Firstly, for those of you who knew Rani the dog, she has been buried at the farmhouse in Pune. Mom and dad did this personally and when I get back to India, on the 28th of December, you are more than welcome to join me to the farmhouse. She was a real friend.

Our trip to India is fixed. We are leaving on the 27th from UK and will be reaching India on the 28th during the day. I hope the trip is going to be as much fun as I am dreaming right now. We are planning to go to Goa and sit by the beach for a few days before going down south to Kerela and having a good time down there. Kerela is a part of the country I have never been to and am looking forward to it myself. Goa, that's the place I want to settle down finally. When I am 60 and if I am alive, I might buy myself a small shack there and sell weed to make some money. But otherwise prawns and beer will have to do.

Getting back to the real world where you get arrested if you do try to sell weed, there are so many things that have been happening since I had gone to Cape Verde. First of all, the war in Iraq is still going on. One would have thought that after Vietnam and Afghanistan (not the US debacle, but the USSR one) would serve as a lesson to the leaders of the world. Apparently history lessons are not important if you want to be the president of a country. Shit happens, but shit happens again and again. The past month has seen some of the bloodiest times in Iraqi history. Who is to blame? The entire country is on the brink of civil war. Is this really better than the situation under Saddam? Which is the lesser of two evils? And who are we to judge? People like to believe that they are going to be saviours of the world. That explains that some of the biggest hits in Hollywood have been films showing a bunch of Americans saving the world. But in real life, does it work that way too? Since the US was losing the war in Iraq and things were getting out of hand, bush played his last card. Saddam is to be hanged. What is this doesn't work either? Please read this blog by riverbend if you have some time.