…to the grind…

Had a beautiful Vietnam trip – my first to a ‘communist’ country, my first with Western backpackers – they are a breed of their own! Will probably write about that with a few photos as soon as I can. But this week promises to be hectic – I am moving, again! Within Singapore of course, but it is still a lot of pain.

To resume writing, I have this New York Times article that caught my eye. It starts,

Small, sick, listless children have long been India’s scourge — “a national shame,” in the words of its prime minister, Manmohan Singh.

According to the article, China has hugely reduced child malnutrition to 7 percent but in India it is still 42.5 percent. This should make you go out and vote, if nothing else will, even if you feel it does not count. That is the matter for another post that I have been planning – it will come in its own sweet time!

But seriously, I had a hard time on my trip defending India in front of a bunch of Westerners who have spent months there, some have even worked with our NGOs. Our hearts might be in the right place but our actions fall too far behind – and I am as guilty, as charged. But…

“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;”