This has been a very interesting week and the past weekend was also quite unique. I had the opportunity to do a lot of introspection, meditation, thinking, being, and learning. I was at a Sikh retreat on the weekend and then coming back I’ve been meeting with clients and working on new business ideas the past few days. Before leaving for the retreat, I was feeling a heavy emotional burden after the Burma cyclone and China earthquake and Crisis in Somalia – I was started to get restless about the plight of poor people around the world and the inaction of world governments. At the retreat I was exposed to a lot of new information and it is taking me a few days to digest it, especially the situation of poor farmers in Punjab, who have been committing suicide over the unbearable burden of high-interest loans and the demands for payment from relentless and intimidating lenders. I’m trying to spend some time to learn more about the microcredit concept for which Muhammed Yunus won a Nobel Peace Prize recently, and thinking if that could be applied in Punjab. Since 1947, the government of India has depleted Punjab of its resources without giving support to residents in the state, causing the Punjab economy to devolve from one of the most productive in South Asia to a struggling economy.

Coming back, I’ve been talking to people about new website and business projects. It was very difficult, though, to get my mind away from the Punjab farmers and thinking about their widows and orphaned children. So I really didn’t know what to blog about – I have new things going on for WordPress and internet marketing but my mind isn’t totally into it so my blogging might be off and on over the next week.