Now i have moved from college life to professional life (really 
).. so i am thinking that to avoid any confrontation with office work.. I should just be posting some articles.. so let me start an article from timesofindia … really a nice one
Up South — Lalit Mohan
Flights of literary imagination can be brought down rudely by geophysical reality. For instance, in the ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru at zero hours on August 15, 1947, he said: “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom”. The fact is that when it struck midnight in India barring those living longitudinally to our east, the rest of the world was quite awake. In Europe and Africa it would, give or take an hour or two, be time for the evening supper and in the Americas people would be tucking in their lunch Similarly, in school there was an ode to the motherland in Hindi, which included the line: “The Himalayas are her crown the sea washes her feet”. This particular image is evoked commonly in Indian poetry. The explanation is that the Himalayas being up in the north, and the oceans down in the south, the head being up, and the feet down, the metaphor is a perfect fit. The problem with such formulation is that if south is where the feet are, then our crown would be lying at China’s feet, because the Himalayas are to the south of that country, at its feet, so to speak.
Actually, in the cosmic sense, here are no ups and downs One of India’s greatest statesmen, C Rajagopalachari, said: “It is the fault of the geographers. They always put south at the bottom”. What is ‘up’ at the South Pole would, from a vantage point in the Arctic, be in the general direction of south, and therefore, ‘down’. If we ignore what Richard Dawkins calls northern hemisphere chauvinism, ‘up south’ could be as valid an expression as ‘up north’. The ‘ooperwala’ or ‘the God above that we supplicate to in the north would, from the southern point of view be ‘neechewala’, where they would place purga tory. And Australia would not be called ‘Down Under’. Dawkins says you can buy maps in Australia and New Zealand, which have South Pole at the top. In this inverted view of the world the oceans gently lap Mother India’s head and her toes get frost bitten in the Himalayas. And China’s crown lies at our feet!
