Man's greatness is not in never falling but rising every-time he falls

A weblog of R.K.Gurumurthy

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On Sports

  
So it's yet again that anemic tried-tested-and-found-successful syndrome that keeps the Lakshmans and the Dravids of the country in the team. Not that they don't deserve a place but when are we building for the future? At a time when we get to watch electrifying WC football or see that historic tennis at Wimbledon the other day between Isner and Mahut, it could be wicked casuistry to speak about Indian cricket. It's just that seething sinking feeling when one sees Ghana/Uruguay/Chile or similar countries participating in world cups while a 100 cr populated country's tennis heroine falters at the initial rounds without a whimper.
  

Another Terrible Transit

Need to figure out if planetary transits have anything to do with my blogging frequency. For those cursorily checking into this blog to see if any updates appear, pls scroll down to see under the title "My Dateless and Timeless Diary".

Speaking of transits, the nodes get stationary to slow moving around 17 degrees and Cancer Ascendants face the fury. With both Jupiter and Saturn mutually aspecting, this might go down as a terrible phase. If my reading of planetary transits is correct, this jupiter-saturn transit should take us economically to the 1930s or the era of great-depression.

I remember an old native joke - once a frustrated person approached an astrologer for advice and remedies. The astrologer looked at this person's chart and said "Things look quite bad for the next 6 months and you will suffer a lot". The person asked optimistically, "what would happen after six months?", to which the astrologer said "You will get used to your miseries...".