Today at Tokyo International Airport I boarded the Air India aircraft that would aid my flight from this charming country. On board all copies of the English language newspapers were already taken so I tucked into ‘Yomiuri Shimbun’, the largest daily of Japan. On the front page there was a heartwarming news story. The mayors of cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had expressed their desire to join the race for hosting the 2020 Olympics. After Tokyo lost its bid for hosting the games in 2016, the Governor of Tokyo had shown some appetite to bid again for 2020. But Japan Olympics Committee was already aflutter and though it maintained guarded silence with reverence to the city of Tokyo, it could be assumed that the candidature of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had the greatest possibility for getting the support of all Japanese citizens.

God created us in his form, they say. If they were to be believed then God comes across as a fairly racist chap. For the argument appears to be just another ruse to underline the supremacy of white race and its religion. Michelangelo and De Vinci were also party to the crime, and so all the images of Gods, angels and the cherubs too have a very fair skin. Even Adam and Eve are not rendered in beautiful black though the mankind originated in Africa. But every religion and its churches have always sought to muzzle the voices of science and reason.

The 19th hole of Delhi Golf Club was no different. A usual I was nursing my wounded pride after the very first round at that prestigious course. My playing partner who was paired with me, an elderly gentleman in his mid-seventies, was a long time member. And he appeared visibly pleased to see that his home curse was too much to take for a visiting outsider.