Wondering, Wandering, Pondering

It's too hot to be doing anything! I don't get Summer vacation. It's wedding season. My teeth can no longer tolerate sour delicacies like आवळा (Amla), चिंच (Tamrind) and कैरी (Raw Mango). The number of treks I can go to reduces drastically. MSEDCL decides that Summer is the best time for power cuts. It seems that the whole country has migrated to hill stations like Mahabaleshwar, Lonavala, etc. The rain gods, in all their wisdom decide to re-enact the Ghanan Ghanan song scene from the movie Lagaan . Any free time you get is mostly likely to be spent recovering from the Summer heat. The only advertisements that the TV seems to host are of ACs, Cooler and refrigerators. This blog post is part of the  52 Weeks Blogging Challenge.

What are we inspired by? Is it because of a certain situation? Or is it through a particular person's deeds/virtues? Is it a particular place that inspires us, or is it a story of the place? There are many things that inspire us. Some are people who have influenced people around them, some are situations, events which occurred and changed the course of history or it may be something as mundane as watching an ant carry many times its body weight. Thus, inspiration comes in many different forms. The main purpose of inspiration, the reason why we go searching for it is that inspiration pushes us to do/act upon something that we would be reluctant to do otherwise. Personally, I believe that inspiration comes from within. While I may be influenced by people or events, the final inspiration comes from within. The situations that inspire me are many, from something simple as watching the sun rise, to something great and complex such as the life stories of people who have achieve

I have been a Vodafone prepaid subscriber for almost 8 years and till a week ago I was satisfied with their customer service. My last week was peppered with arguments with whichever person called me and left me utterly frustrated and exhausted. To give a background, I was recently contacted by Vodafone regarding a postpaid plan which they felt was suitable for me. The executive informed me about the plan - Rs. 399 monthly rental with unlimited local/STD calls, 100 SMS and 21 GB worth of 4G data. The executive informed me that all I had to do, if I wanted to avail the offer, was to provide a Photo, a photo ID and an address proof to the executive who would visit me at my home. Besides providing this information, the executive asked me one question - "Are you working currently?" to which I replied in the negative since I was looking for employment after my MBA course which would end in 2-3 weeks. This was the first call. When I asked them to forward me the offer detai