Philosophy
It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.—Herodotus, Histories.
Close enough...the Indian mail will be delivered--46 years late.
August 30th, 2012
BBC NEWS
A bag carrying diplomatic mail from India has been found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, close to where an Air India plane crashed 46 years ago.
The jute bag was recovered by a mountain rescue worker and his neighbour after some tourists spotted it on a glacier last week.
The Indian embassy in Paris told the AFP news agency that it would begin efforts to retrieve the bag.
The Air India plane flying from Mumbai to New York crashed in January 1966.
All 117 people on board died.
The bag recovered from the glacier has markings saying "Diplomatic mail" and "Ministry of External Affairs", as the foreign ministry is called in India.
"Some tourists came and told us they had seen something shining on the Bossons glacier," rescue worker Arnaud Christmann told AFP.
'A dump'
"We found pieces of the cabin, a shoe, cables - it's a real dump up there!"
Mr Christmann said the diplomatic bag was "sitting as if someone had just placed it there".
"We were hoping for diamonds or at least a few gold ingots. Instead we got some soaking wet mail and Indian newspapers," he said.
"It's not the sort of thing you find very often in the mountains - the mail's going to arrive 46 years late."
The bag has been handed over to the police in the town of Chamonix at the base of the mountain.
The Indian embassy in Paris said on Wednesday that it had not been informed of the discovery but officials would be looking into it to recover the bag.
- Indian Space Missions...up, Up, And Away--a Good Thing
"Mythbusting India's Mars Mission" by Morris Jones November 6th, 2013 SpaceDaily The successful launch of India's Mars Orbiter Mission is a major step forward for an advancing Asian space power. The global space community has applauded the flight,...
- Nice Going Ford India And The Figo Hatchback--idiots
"Ford India Needs to Fire Its Advertising Execs" by Katy Waldman and Megan Wiegand March 22nd, 2013 Slate Today in horrible advertising ideas, Ford India plugs the cavernous trunk space of its Figo hatchback by depicting captive women stuffed inside....
- Five Days A Week Or Maybe Three?...mail Delivery
Delivery truck in 1931. "Postmaster says days are numbered for Saturday mail delivery" by Carly Mallenbaum July 20th, 2011 USA TODAY Falling mail volume and soaring red ink may soon doom Saturday mail delivery and prompt three-day-a-week delivery within...
- 700 New Species...from Indian Amber
"Ancient Amber Reveals 700 New Insect Species" October 26th, 2010 Science News Researchers have discovered more than 700 new species of prehistoric insects in a 50-million-year-old amber deposit in India. The 330 lb. deposit, dubbed Cambay amber, was...
- Bhopal Disaster--convictions...26 Years Later
"Indian Court Convicts 7 in Bhopal Disaster" by Hari Kumar June 7th, 2010 The New York Times An Indian court convicted seven people on Monday of death by negligence in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, in which thousands of people were killed by toxic chemicals...
Philosophy
46 year old Indian mail WILL BE DELIVERED
It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.—Herodotus, Histories.
Close enough...the Indian mail will be delivered--46 years late.
"India diplomatic bag found in French Alps after 46 years"
August 30th, 2012
BBC NEWS
A bag carrying diplomatic mail from India has been found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, close to where an Air India plane crashed 46 years ago.
The jute bag was recovered by a mountain rescue worker and his neighbour after some tourists spotted it on a glacier last week.
The Indian embassy in Paris told the AFP news agency that it would begin efforts to retrieve the bag.
The Air India plane flying from Mumbai to New York crashed in January 1966.
All 117 people on board died.
The bag recovered from the glacier has markings saying "Diplomatic mail" and "Ministry of External Affairs", as the foreign ministry is called in India.
"Some tourists came and told us they had seen something shining on the Bossons glacier," rescue worker Arnaud Christmann told AFP.
'A dump'
"We found pieces of the cabin, a shoe, cables - it's a real dump up there!"
Mr Christmann said the diplomatic bag was "sitting as if someone had just placed it there".
"We were hoping for diamonds or at least a few gold ingots. Instead we got some soaking wet mail and Indian newspapers," he said.
"It's not the sort of thing you find very often in the mountains - the mail's going to arrive 46 years late."
The bag has been handed over to the police in the town of Chamonix at the base of the mountain.
The Indian embassy in Paris said on Wednesday that it had not been informed of the discovery but officials would be looking into it to recover the bag.
- Indian Space Missions...up, Up, And Away--a Good Thing
"Mythbusting India's Mars Mission" by Morris Jones November 6th, 2013 SpaceDaily The successful launch of India's Mars Orbiter Mission is a major step forward for an advancing Asian space power. The global space community has applauded the flight,...
- Nice Going Ford India And The Figo Hatchback--idiots
"Ford India Needs to Fire Its Advertising Execs" by Katy Waldman and Megan Wiegand March 22nd, 2013 Slate Today in horrible advertising ideas, Ford India plugs the cavernous trunk space of its Figo hatchback by depicting captive women stuffed inside....
- Five Days A Week Or Maybe Three?...mail Delivery
Delivery truck in 1931. "Postmaster says days are numbered for Saturday mail delivery" by Carly Mallenbaum July 20th, 2011 USA TODAY Falling mail volume and soaring red ink may soon doom Saturday mail delivery and prompt three-day-a-week delivery within...
- 700 New Species...from Indian Amber
"Ancient Amber Reveals 700 New Insect Species" October 26th, 2010 Science News Researchers have discovered more than 700 new species of prehistoric insects in a 50-million-year-old amber deposit in India. The 330 lb. deposit, dubbed Cambay amber, was...
- Bhopal Disaster--convictions...26 Years Later
"Indian Court Convicts 7 in Bhopal Disaster" by Hari Kumar June 7th, 2010 The New York Times An Indian court convicted seven people on Monday of death by negligence in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, in which thousands of people were killed by toxic chemicals...