Responsible voting?

Lak's post got me into a chain of thought..

yeah yeah.. it is a long chain, but here is the abridged version!

India : (color TV, bag of rice, free clothes) :: US : free money

so the voting populace, a majority of which seems to be very gullible, will vote for short term gains..

It is a democracy. If there were a majority of responsible people and they actually had a say in things, we would not be where we are now, would we?

So, why should we for one second assume that the responsible ones will have an upper hand in this election?

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The Chronicles of Navrathria - Part 3

Now that Saraswathi pooja is over, it is time to release the rest of the golu photos!

Here goes..

The smaller? golus...When you have kids in their terrible twos, the golu tends to be empty on the lower steps and they put all the fragile dolls higher up. Don't remember noticing that when we were kids.

We will now demonstrate a method to calculate the LCM (Please refresh 7th standard Math) for the golus using a factorization method. This shows that the prime factors in a golu are...

Back to more photos..

The megolumaniacs !

This one had a mini Thirupathi setup on the side and it was amazing!

When you cannot capture the size of the steps at 28mm on a Digital Rebel and you have to resort to stitching, it implies that the golu just filled the entire room!

Finally, a couple of shots of our dolls in different paavaadais!

It was definitely fun, socializing, chronicling the golus, eating sundal(s) and watching the little one say "My paavaadai fits! It fits!" after last years experience of hand me downs (hey, if you are 1+ years old and have made only one India trip, chances are you are not going to have enough Paavaadai's that fit, especially if you are short and fare in the bottom 10 percentile for height!).

Here's looking forward to next years golu..

ps. We forgot to take the camera to some golus or simply could not get pictures without people in the frame.. so your golu's have not been featured?! here. Hey, there is always next year, right?

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Veetukku Veedu - Golu Padi !!

Some golu photos with permission of the Navarathrers..

So large that they had to be covered in multiple shots and stitched to get the entire display in one photo.

What bothers me is that even still life stitch photos end up showing a "seam"..

Finally a side view of a golu padi as sold at The Home Depot (Planks are sold separately!).

These are actually "patio" steps. Did you know that this is called a "brain step". Apparently the average human being lifts his/her leg up exactly 8 inches +/- 0.0005 inches (okay, it is more like *+/-0.25 inches) to climb up steps? That is why most city codes require that when you step down from the house to the patio or when you have steps inside the house they have to be 8 inches tall!

The home depot "Padi" standardizes the "Golu Platform". Hey, did you notice that for once, I came up with a sentence that makes me sound like a software dude?!

As usual, this post ends with a promise to lobby my parents to start doing a golu in our house. It is a killer to tell the girls that we do NOT follow golu tradition, just because of a pathetic statistical correlation between great grandma keeping golu coinciding with a death in the family that same year, especially considering :

a. very large family
b. cholera and TB epidemics being widespread in those days

facts, that seriously taint that correlation.

San is worried that god forbid, we start a golu and someone dies, it will be correlated again and we will be blamed.

To hell with it, is what I say. We have two very disappointed dolls at home, pining for a doll display.

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