Mumbai witnessed it’s first “No Honking Day” yesterday and it was successful. The effect of the “No Honking day” also brought more discipline into the roads, from both the drivers and the pedestrians. There was no lane cutting, no rash driving, no unnecessary honking and no pesky pedestrians.

Mumbai has also seen another successful campaign. It was the “Mumbai Un-plug” campaign. Citizens were requested to switch off all electricity appliances for an hour on this particular day.

Seeing two successful awareness campaigns happening in the city, can trigger more awareness drives. I am listing a few down, which I believe will be as successful as the others.

• No ‘peeing’ day: There’s not a single wall in the city that can boast that ‘I haven’t been ‘pee-ed’ upon!‘
• No spitting day: ditto
• Walk on footpaths day: But for that, we need to get rid of all the hawkers, vendors, garbage who happily call these footpaths their homes.
• No Newspaper day: I am sure this will be a pain for so many people who rely on the newspaper first thing in the morning. It helps them drink their morning tea, finish with the loo, etc but above all it will help the environment. So many Trees will survive.
• No Smoking day: If this actually happens, many Mumbaikars will die of hypertension and stress!mu Many believe that Smoking is the best way to kill tension, stress, viz.
• No email day: If this happens (why should it?), it will be back to the “Morse Code” days.
• Say Hi with a smile day: Mumbai is one of the loneliest cities to live in. Saying Hi with a smile to a stranger will make so much of a difference to this reputation that Mumbai has earned.

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MAN knows that the conscience is always right.
But ironically, MAN still does what his conscience doesn’t want him to do, eventually harming himself !

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If you have, did you give him a coin? No! Why?

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Our senses are windows; windows to knowledge, abundant knowledge. This knowledge enriches us and gives us a better understanding of the what, the how and the why.
But is this knowledge enough to make a champion?

Apart from dedication, aggressiveness, patience, self-belief, a champion is also:

• Belief in the creator, because if the creator can, he can.

• He is the right-attitude, and he believes that all problems have solutions. The solutions are in him, in his mind, in his thoughts.
• A champion is what his mind is. A champion is what his thoughts are. A champion is truth.

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Hypocrisy follows an egoist.

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Tweego and I have been going for early morning walks these days. It’s not that there is a park nearby, but because Tweego enjoys relieving himself on the roads and streets of Mumbai.

There is something in that look of his when he relieves himself. It’s a question he’s asking me. And each day he ventures into a new area.
On certain days it’s at the municipal plantations on roads, other days it’s on a heap of litter, sometimes the “nalla” (drain). It was today that I deciphered this dog language.

He chose the side of a wall, splattered with spit. Spit of paan (beetle leaf) and paan masala (chewable tobacco).
But today was different. Instead of one question, he had two!
I read the first,
“What’s taking you so long?”
But the second shook me off my feet.
“I am a dog, what’s your excuse?”

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I think, I imagine. And these are always depicted as pictures and images that swirl in my mind. Sometimes they are good and sometimes they are bad.

The same goes for memories. They too are pictures and running videos in my mind. But why is it that I can only see what I had seen then, but not smell or feel the freshness in the air, the warmth in the sun; or hear the falling of the rain.

Is it because memories are just rewind+stop+play of pictures or is it because the eye is the dominant organ amongst the 5 organs.

What happens to a person who is born blind? Does he have memories?

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