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I argued with a machine. The automated program that deleted my entry because it thought I was selling something ! And won !!! The link to my travel blah blah is now up. Here it is again .

For a few days, this blogger is giving this blog a well deserved (?) rest and is instead going to be blogging at a new place . If you go there, you'll make out why. Will be back here of course, but after a little while. Hopefully, you'll journey with me and leave your kind comments there too.

Spare a thought for Shiva Kesavan, Nadeem Iqbal and Himanshu Thakur.  Who ? you might ask. A luger, a cross country skier and an alpine skier respectively. They are three Indians who will be at the Sochi Winter Olympics that start today. But for the next eighteen days they are not allowed to be Indians. What a shame. This is because India is currently suspended from the Olympic movement. The Indian Olympic Association's membership of the International Olympic Committee stands suspended. IOA officials have been accused of corruption and criminal charges are pending. Yet one continues to hold his post in the IOA, which is against the Olympic charter. The IOC gave time for the IOA to hold fresh elections and reconstitute the IOA. The IOA did not do it . Consequently India stands suspended from the Olympics. Shiva Keshavan is a five time Olympian. He will lead the contingent of three in today's opening ceremony. But they will march under the IOC flag, representing as individuals an...