A start........

Hi! Let me start with why I call the blog Inane Insanities (or Insane Inanities).

Well, aren't all blogs the same? Look at anybody else's blog, you will think, "What a crazy guy/gal", "Doesn't s/he have anything better to do?", ad infinitum. Well, there's some news for you...... the other person thinks the same when s/he looks at your blog......

So, naming this blog Inane and Insane is actually an act of honesty...... of moral courage..... This blog, like any other, is just a forum to air my views, to criticise, to be rude, to do all the other things, conveniently hiding behind the anonymosity offered by the Internet, which I cannot say / do in real life, for fear of being sued, or beaten up, or arrested.

So gear up folks!!! It's totally up to you, to decide the order of  Inane and Insane..... But it will be both.... I promise....

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