10 things that impressed me

1.The Australians attacked, in the press conference and on the cricket ground - I hate them, nonetheless for routing Dhoni's men

2.A lower court in Patna sentenced 7 killers of an IAS officer - of the 36 accuseds, 29 commoners were acquited, while 6 high-profile politicians were found guilty

3.Shahrukh got 6-pack abs at 40-plus - never mind that he was paid to do so

4.Science – it is the gold standard by which to judge a phenomenon, an action, a religion or a philosophy

5.An express train running between Patna and Darbhanga lowered itself to the status of a slow passenger train in the flood-ravaged stretch between Samastipur and Darbhanga, for the benefit of the flood victims forced into living on the trackside - men, women and children got onto the train top with their burden of feed for their cattle and got down wherever they wanted. The passengers sitting inside the train gave up their natural propensity to fuss and understood and sympathized, notwithstanding their own discomfort and delay

6.Konkona Sen Sharma played the role of a young mother in 'Mr. & Mrs. Iyer' and that of a young small town girl in 'Laga Chunari...' - in one she looked 5 years elder to her age, in the other, 5 years younger

7.We are world champs in Chess, under-14 Rugby, Billiards and T20 cricket, Asian champs in Hockey and Nehru Cup winners in Football

8.Salman refused to have his wax statue put up in Madame Tussaud’s – impressive ego indeed

9.Bacteria – One bacterial population can teach as much to a Life sciences student as to a wannabe Sociologist (more on this later)

10.My 5-year-old cousin – he knows if he ‘downloads’ ‘chess’ from the ‘internet’ he may chance to cause a ‘virus’ to enter his ‘laptop’.