I have always fought against the Congress. I have fought against them for two reasons:
A. For what they have done to the country whenever they were in power, and
B. For the impression they have created that only those who are born or married in the Gandhi family have the right to rule the contry.
- George Fernandes in a interview to MJ Akbar on CNBC
In the evening, everyone reaches home faster!
The other day as I walked out of the office with Hemant Phadnis, a colleague of mine, he told me that he brings his two-wheeler to office. Knowing that his house is just five minutes walk I was surprised, but quickly I realized that a five minute walk in the morning is sufficient to drench one is sweat, and I pointed it out to him. "No, it's not that. I don't mind walking in the sun in the morning. I bring my bike because I hate getting delayed by five minutes on my way home in the evening!" His answer really surprised me! So while I drove, I started thinking about it.
Long ago there was a science journal aired on DD wherein Dr. Yash Pal (the scientist with long hair, know him?) answered viewers' queries on various scientific topics. One curious question a schoolboy had asked (and I remember it because it was so odd) was that he always rode his bicycle faster and faster as he approached home from school. He wanted to know the scientific reason why he rode so fast!! The answer was that it was just his eagerness to reach home earlier that was behind his fast riding! I myself experience this everyday. On the way to office I average a speed of about fifty kmph, but on the way home I have to take efforts to keep myself at seventy.
Some years earlier when I was in school we had all gone to visit taatyaa maamaa. Ashutosh had just taken up a new job in a bank opposite BSE. He took a train to Churchgate and walked from Churchgate station to BSE, and did the same back home. I asked him how long it took between Churchgate station and his office. "In the morning it takes me half an hour, in the evening it takes me ten minutes". Innocently I asked, "Why? Do you take a different route?" "No", he said, "it's because in the morning I am going to office and in the evening I am coming back home!" Although the answer left me totally puzzled, the elders had a nice laugh and all agreed with him!
Now I understand ... in the evening everyone wants to reach home faster!
Long ago there was a science journal aired on DD wherein Dr. Yash Pal (the scientist with long hair, know him?) answered viewers' queries on various scientific topics. One curious question a schoolboy had asked (and I remember it because it was so odd) was that he always rode his bicycle faster and faster as he approached home from school. He wanted to know the scientific reason why he rode so fast!! The answer was that it was just his eagerness to reach home earlier that was behind his fast riding! I myself experience this everyday. On the way to office I average a speed of about fifty kmph, but on the way home I have to take efforts to keep myself at seventy.
Some years earlier when I was in school we had all gone to visit taatyaa maamaa. Ashutosh had just taken up a new job in a bank opposite BSE. He took a train to Churchgate and walked from Churchgate station to BSE, and did the same back home. I asked him how long it took between Churchgate station and his office. "In the morning it takes me half an hour, in the evening it takes me ten minutes". Innocently I asked, "Why? Do you take a different route?" "No", he said, "it's because in the morning I am going to office and in the evening I am coming back home!" Although the answer left me totally puzzled, the elders had a nice laugh and all agreed with him!
Now I understand ... in the evening everyone wants to reach home faster!
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