In Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's adventures in Wonderland' to assure herself that she understands the strange occurances around her Alice says, "I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, ...."
Now what is Alice talking about here? We all know that four times fives is twenty. Is this is an author's blunder or was Lewis Carroll someone much more than the author of a famous children classic?
"Life's dissapointments are harder to take
when you don't know any swear words" - C & H
Monday, August 28, 2006
Lewis Caroll
Friday, August 11, 2006
blue eyed, blond haired - $10 each.
TOI edition dated 10th august' 06 boldly proclaimed 'Designer babies for $5k". For the mentioned price you get an embryo created in the lab. You also get to choose the color of your baby's eye and it's hair too! The clinic also boasts of sperm donors having Ph.D degrees and egg donors of having attended college atleast. Want to know what you baby is gonna look like? They are even gonna provide you with a couple of childhoos pictures of your donors.
Excuse me, sir? Are there not enough children in this world who could be given a better future? Anyhow since we are already at this stage of evolution why not venture to think a bit furthur. The embryo is created in the lab. The mother's womb is still needed for it's growth. Could the day be far off when that is also possible in some lab? And with the advances in gene research why not create one who can fight in a war and never get hurt, one who can all the pain and not cry or maybe someone who has 3 fingers and 1 thumb because on some creative day the world decides that that looks much better!
Excuse me, sir? Are there not enough children in this world who could be given a better future? Anyhow since we are already at this stage of evolution why not venture to think a bit furthur. The embryo is created in the lab. The mother's womb is still needed for it's growth. Could the day be far off when that is also possible in some lab? And with the advances in gene research why not create one who can fight in a war and never get hurt, one who can all the pain and not cry or maybe someone who has 3 fingers and 1 thumb because on some creative day the world decides that that looks much better!
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
The perfect picture
When i was little we used to go to the hills for our summer holidays. On this particular one we were staying for more than a week in a cottage nestled in the then sleepy hills of ranikhet.
Dad woke us up at 5 in the morning. It was just twilight then and we all went out for a short walk upto the pine hills. Dad's secret purpose was to click a photograph of us in the early morning light. (If i remember corrently he had bribed us with ice-cream the previous night to get up early in the morning). Anyways so we trudged after him in the cold - me, bhaiya and mummy to the pine trees lining the mountains. Dad took quite a lot of time to take the pictures. If you look at them now you can see me and bhaiya as two bundles of warm clothing huddling close to Mum to beat the cold. Complete in our woollen scarves (the navy blue ones) sleepy eyes and smiles. Mummy is looking beautiful in her pink sari and a shawl drawn over. The mist is arising from the forest behind us. And Dad got his favourite pine trees in the background. One of the best pictures we have in the family.
Dad woke us up at 5 in the morning. It was just twilight then and we all went out for a short walk upto the pine hills. Dad's secret purpose was to click a photograph of us in the early morning light. (If i remember corrently he had bribed us with ice-cream the previous night to get up early in the morning). Anyways so we trudged after him in the cold - me, bhaiya and mummy to the pine trees lining the mountains. Dad took quite a lot of time to take the pictures. If you look at them now you can see me and bhaiya as two bundles of warm clothing huddling close to Mum to beat the cold. Complete in our woollen scarves (the navy blue ones) sleepy eyes and smiles. Mummy is looking beautiful in her pink sari and a shawl drawn over. The mist is arising from the forest behind us. And Dad got his favourite pine trees in the background. One of the best pictures we have in the family.
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