Introductory Blog

I am Rakesh Shah. I am not familiar with blogging and its environmet and would try to learn to use bloggs to good adavntage for the general good. I have travelled a lot and had the opportunity to work in trans-cutural seettings, reasonably well read and a creature of the old world with a healthy respect for decency, good values and relationships based on mutual respect.

My hobbies include photography (no calim to any proficiency), religion with reference to its social impact, history and sceintific understanding.

I am a nationalist and feel deepy pained at the state of the nation and social situation in India. The degeneration of the political and social discourse, destruction of democratic values, greatest degree of hypocrisy in the political system and demise of sense on nationhood amongst politicians and leaders is a constant source of discomfort and anguish for me.

In my opinion the media is our biggest failing now as it feeds unending footage of 'saleable' rather than 'acceptable' or 'beneficial' to peopel who are extremely susceptible to what they see or read and are unable to always separate grain from the chaff. The fourth estate has deceived the nation.

We'll talk about all that in the coming days.