tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543656700978884257.post4201063993325921826..comments2023-11-05T01:15:11.298-07:00Comments on The Daily Pheesh: In Memory of...Prasanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01996399951984071646noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543656700978884257.post-72473074772923478232008-10-03T04:54:00.000-07:002008-10-03T04:54:00.000-07:00@QIThe ban is to social engineering what burnt bre...@QI<BR/><BR/>The ban is to social engineering what burnt bread is to the palate. I am sympathetic to the logic behind the ban and somewhere deep inside, I perhaps sympathize with the practical impossibilities of any other mode of regulation.<BR/><BR/>Yet I would still prefer institution-level action, whereby every institution determines its own rules regarding smoking with even this policy tried out first in select areas before being implemented.<BR/><BR/>My biggest problem is how the ban does not seem to be the effect of any larger plan but a simple way out for the Minister and his acolytes.<BR/><BR/>As for Gandhi, you should read what the patriarch has to say on some of the human weaknesses like tobacco, alcohol,sex etc. :PPrasanthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996399951984071646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543656700978884257.post-91873255452876773572008-10-02T22:50:00.000-07:002008-10-02T22:50:00.000-07:00Good one. Tomorrow they'll tell us not to have sex...Good one. Tomorrow they'll tell us not to have sex on 2nd October, and all national holidays. And they'll probably ban alcohol before that as well.<BR/><BR/>I do not smoke, and I agree that people who do not have the right to tell smokers not to light up in their presence. But this is just ridiculous. If you're so friggin' concerned, why not ban the cultivation of tobacco and the manufacture of cigarettes?<BR/><BR/>And SS: won't an anti-smoking ban be a good thing? :-)<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/><BR/>Quirky Indian<BR/>http://quirkyindian.wordpress.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543656700978884257.post-87864904864588048002008-10-02T04:27:00.000-07:002008-10-02T04:27:00.000-07:00Most channels have gone back to the Attenbourough ...Most channels have gone back to the Attenbourough version because they have got tired of screening the Benegal version and they realize that the old one is in fact new to a lot of people. The circle goes on!<BR/><BR/>As for the smoking ban, I think a healthy disregard for the dictates of authority is a the keystone of all academia. I am sure the mentioned ones will manage. It's a big issue in the media and blogosphere though. One person whose opinion I would have loved to hear is Khushwant Singh. Sadly the jolly sardar does not seem to be very active these days.Prasanthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996399951984071646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543656700978884257.post-50084767663518347982008-10-02T04:13:00.000-07:002008-10-02T04:13:00.000-07:00Sigh. Every other channel had Attenborough's Gandh...Sigh. Every other channel had Attenborough's Gandhi, in different languages. Might have been interesting to compare the diff lang versions if I had the time. <BR/><BR/>Smoking ban ... I'm wondering about some of my colleagues who cannot do without their smoke... How will they cope? :) <BR/><BR/>BTW: NDTV/CNN, I forget which, had this headline for the story this morn - Anti-smoking ban ... <BR/>Confusing semantics, no?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com