tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post115379928791076928..comments2023-11-19T00:42:48.156-08:00Comments on balancing life: The 50 dollar MercedesSunilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776658071546232685noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1154013020563923192006-07-27T08:10:00.000-07:002006-07-27T08:10:00.000-07:00swapna......i can only imaging sitting and waiting...swapna......i can only imaging sitting and waiting for their call. I can't even imagine how my friend P & his family were coping, since his dad was in Kuwait, in the war zone!Sunilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07776658071546232685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1153938469486693632006-07-26T11:27:00.000-07:002006-07-26T11:27:00.000-07:00Good one.My parents were living in Saudi at the ti...Good one.<BR/><BR/>My parents were living in Saudi at the time of the war. My sister and I were living with my grandparents in India - I still remember waiting every sunday for their phone call.Swapnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12576492000140789947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1153925732197037972006-07-26T07:55:00.000-07:002006-07-26T07:55:00.000-07:00Harini.....yup....its often so easy to reduce thin...Harini.....yup....its often so easy to reduce things to a statistic, and you indeed do forget the high human cost there. But with so much going on, it's hard not to condense information into a statistic. It's up to us to retain our empathy.<BR/><BR/>Supremus.....do write about them.<BR/><BR/>Proudindian, yes, any war can only result in extreme trauma and difficulty. But you can't blame the people going to the gulf to earn money. Many of them are semi-skilled, and had they worked in India, they wouldn't have earned in a life time what they do in 5 years of toil in the gulf states.Sunilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07776658071546232685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1153826410514085092006-07-25T04:20:00.000-07:002006-07-25T04:20:00.000-07:00the human cost of war - when we see tanks rolling ...the human cost of war - when we see tanks rolling down, and armies marching - this is what ends up getting forgotten.<BR/>It all ends up sounding like statistics of a very one sided rugby game - terrorists 18, civilians 81 !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com