First read the A sing of times... post before this one. Now go read this article. I thought this was just a trend in India. In America it makes even more sense to spend god awful amounts of money celebrating a union which statistically has only a 50% chance of surviving. Its one thing if you have a cool $50G burning a hole in your pocket and there are no more hungry people in the world left to feed, but come on!!!! I mean really?? A second mortgage for a wedding?!??
Also today is the 133rd birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. Props to the BBC for covering this in a cool photo collage/article. Only one of the major US news sites has any mention of this (NY Times, On this Day). Thats kind of sad because the whole non-violent civil rights movement was based directly on the ideas that Gandhiji professed. A majority of the world will be vegetarian before Americans learn to look outward towards the world rather than inward at themselves.
Posted by Mr. Keyur at October 2, 2002 01:33 PM