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Happy to watch the Republic day parade of India. If there is one place you can understand the vast diversity of Indian Subcontinent then this is the day. Happy to see our Kalam, waving his hands to the youth of India. Saudi king , the chief Guest also impressed a lot on seeing the diversity of the country. No country can be boast of such a vast cultural diversity and unity. In this day i would like to remember some of the galant Indian youths. Bhagath Singh like leftist youths fought for the country by giving their life.

Many think that India got its freedom by Gandhian struggle. But it is only an half truth. Without Bhagath Singh, Sughadev, Netaji etc etc Indian freedon would have been a dream. A person like Churchil could have handled Gandhian movement for a few more decades! The indian gallantry, unrest and Labour Party came into power in England are some of the reasons for our independence. In this day i would like to remember one such brave youth ... Udham Singh, aperson who took revenge for Jalian Wala Bhagh Masacre ... that too in England soil ! Some of his last words before he was hanged in UK ....

"I did it because I had a grudge against him (Sir Michael O'Dwyer) , he deserved it. I don't belong to any society or anything else. I don't care, I don't mind dying. What is the use of waiting until you get old? That is no good ... Is Zetland dead? He ought to be, I put two in him. I bought the revolver from a soldier in a public house. My parents died when I was 3 or 4 ... Only the one dead, eh? I thought I could get more." Read more

At 7:58 a.m. John felt the ground shake. It was a subtle movement, unlike the jolt-style earthquakes he had experienced growing up in Southern California, and it sustained a low-frequency shudder for several minutes. John asked Ying, his assistant, to fetch a green plastic bowl and fill it with water. She set it on the ground and they both watched the ripples.

Ying thought it an earthquake on the island and scrambled to stand under the door sill. John suspected something more ominous. The region hadn’t seen a significant tsunami since the island volcano Krakatoa, west of Java, erupted in 1883, setting off a wave that killed 35,000 people. But John, something of a sea gypsy, had spent most of his life roaming oceans in small plastic crafts and he knew the signs. .... "Read this interesting and touching story to understand the wisdom of people who loves and lives in hormony with nature!" - Chella

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I had to fly to Hyderabad on Friday on a business call. Just landed in Coimbatore. Will continue my Mumbai Musings along with my Hyderabad Diaries!