Fat Man
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DINK - if one spouse gets bored of the other spouse and divorce, what happens next? If one of them dies, what happens? Will they remarry, if this happened at a young age ? Perhaps yes. But what if this divorce or death happens when they are in their 40s or 50s or 60s? Is it easy to find another partner at that age? What happens if one spouse of the DINK couple falls chronically ill when the couple is relatively young, say in their 30s or 40s? Will the other spouse take care of the ill spouse lifelong? Will the well person feel that it's a lifelong burden to take care of ill person? Afterall they had signed up for DINK, to enjoy, not to be straddled with single income and an ill spouse.... Or will the person divorce his/her ill spouse? I have seen more divorces of DINK couples when one of the spouses is unwell. What happens to ill person now after divorce? Who will take care of them? The parents? The siblings? They would have lost their job due to their illness.... Many many questions.... It's not easy as one thinks.. People wanting DINK should think of all possible scenarios and be prepared for them. Ofcourse, end of the day, it's their choice. And I get this... My take: have kids.... Kids provide some emotional respite - whether couple is together, divorced, single, unwell or well spouse - kids with their love and affection, their mischief, their antics, their support - they provide the emotional and mental strength for the couple/person to keep going in life. Life changes for the better when kids are around. #DINK
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#Watch: #TMC supremo #MamtaBanerjee asks candidates & party workers to guard EVM strong rooms to prevent it from being exchanged with other EVMs. Says, “If required I will also guard the strong room in my area. I will also visit my counting centre. As a candidate I can always visit the counting centre.”
Repeat after me: Kids are not your retirement plan. Kids are not the solution of your loneliness. Kids are not the answer of your - how we will live in old days financially. Bring a new life in the world only if you are emotionally mature, financially stable, can provide a good and independent life to your offspring not debts, responsibilities , trauma etc.
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Open letter to Indians in America. -- Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat: Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way. Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned. You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict. Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect. Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself. As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal. Respectfully Sridhar Vembu
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