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New Year Resolution 2017

If you have read my previous year New Year resolution , you can skip reading this. Gained weight last year. I need to control it  Please don’t give me any suggestion   I need to learn at least 25 new English words (2 per month and 1 to make it round) and 365 non English I myself will get some resources Email forwards, Orkut, Facebook and now WhatsApp joins the list. So less time there and possibly will try to increase other modes of communication Your suggestions are welcome Clean up non-mandatory things... Will do this year too. Will try to get the photos organised - full year goal Thinking of online storage + hard disk. Do you have any good solution? Will increase the book reading time. I shall choose the books I wanted to read for next 10+ months by January 14, 2017. At least one from Amitav Ghosh,  Preeti Shenoy and few from Osho is for sure What are your favourite English non-fictions written by foreign authors? Will spend time on reflecting

December Rain - 7

My grand grandfather took my grandfather to the school which promised discipline as its focus. He later understood that neither the care for discipline nor anything was up to even the very basic level. My grandfather took my father to the school which promised quality education. Alas, quality is too relative and the promise and the delivered thing didn’t match. My father took me to the school which promised to facilitate sports activities apart from discipline and education. There was no space and budget for sports in the school. I took my son to the school which promised hi-tech setup for learning and collaboration. At the end, I had to spend all my money to get nothing of worthy. I think there will be a school again promising discipline oriented education and my grandson will go there. Okay, it is not about schools. It is about promises and hopes and disappointments. Generation after generation we vote and elect leaders. I hear hundreds of promises from our politicians in every