Hello friends !
Welcome to my blog "Palamvalley". I propose to share my thoughts on varied topics, mostly about my hobbies such as gardening and photography and an occasional travel. I have no claim to any literary scholarship nor any command over the language in which I write so there are bound to be a gaffe or two. To be overlooked of course. What I write is like the rumblings of an idle mind of an idle person with time on hands. So please take it in that spirit. Even if we are only interested in pursuing our hobbies we cannot remain unaffected by the happenings around us. We need to spare a thought for them too. There are these spate of terrorist attacks around the world, especially in the European continent with loss of precious lives. No country in the world is immune from these attacks and everybody needs to be alert because eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. Then there is the upcoming presidential elections in the US, a leading economic and military power in the world. The world at large has a stake in the outcome of this election as the policies of the new incumbent is bound to affect us in some way especially those young people who have dreams of going to the US for education and a career. Nearer home the shenanigans of our political class. A government with a majority in the lower house finds itself helpless in implementing its policies in the face of impediments in the upper house where it lacks the numbers. Our democracy follows the Westminster model but with a little quirk that here the Rajyasabha does not yield to Loksabha in matters of legislation unlike the House of Lords. In this game of shadow boxing the loser are the people of India. We may be helpless spectators to all this but we can express our views on these occurrences with the pious hope that fellow citizens would wake up and take notice resulting in a cascading effect washing away the general apathy. And what better forum than a blog ! So watch out.
