The Sri Lankan Cricket board says it's ready to send its team to Pakistan, if India refuses to tour the world's new found punching bag.

Not surprising! having borne the brunt of LTTE for decades, Pakistan could well be like a second home to the Lankans!

Amidst all the seriousness of carbon trading, CO2 emissions, global warming, The Kyoto Protocol and the efforts of scores of environmentalists world over, the nonchalant common man in India still burns his share of dry leaves and other "easily bio degradable" wastes, daily.

Today, I extinguished one such burning pile; mainly due to the nuisance from the smoke. It should still count.

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