It’s election time in south India and the propaganda is overspilling onto the streets.

Is it just coincidence that so many members of the Gandhi/Nehru family have been in power in this country?

Or that George Bush Junior followed in the footsteps of his father?
Could there be another reason? Read more…

I just came across this shocking article about the cost of Cherie Blair’s hair maintenance.

The article claims that during the month leading up to the 2005 general election, the wife of the British Prime Minister spent £275 per day on personal hairstyling, mounting up to a total bill of £7,700.

I find it utterly sickening and irresponsible that the wife of the Labour party leader should squander wads of cash on hairspray and grooming while half of the world’s population lives below the poverty line. Read more…

Leap-frogging to a new life…
This world is but a play
And death, a change of scene.

Like sleep at day’s end
And fresh clothes in the morn,
So this body, vehicle for the soul,
Is utilised, spent
And discarded at dusk.

A new skin donned at dawn,
Ready for the promise
Of the new light of day.
A new opportunity
For the final leap home.

VEGETARIANISM & CONSCIOUSNESS
I consider the degree to which vegetarianism has been embraced by a culture to be an excellent indicator of the extent of its evolution. Refusing to kill animals for food demonstrates the ethical progress and humanity of a civilisation.

In India, vegetarian food is widely considered to be the best - a mark of the great advance of consciousness that took place here many centuries ago. Read more…

Swastika, take me into your world,
Within your centre, all mysteries unfold.
Arms spin through eternal time,
With tails that trail in the winds behind.