And this is a very heady place.

Your limbs are stiff... worms are eating your heart... and this heady fragrance of dead flowers... this heady fragrance of dead flowers...

Heady enough to make you forget family responsibilities?

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God

In those heady days, we were experimenting with chat rooms and online virtual communities.

This is heady national rhetoric, and it was all put together in a great pageant

This is heady national rhetoric, and it was all put together in a great pageant launching the return.

And 15 years later, there are 100 of them and 2,000 people on staff and it was just such heady times.

Do heady times of struggle always give way to a somewhat deflating taste of victory? Am I merely a veteran wistfully reminiscing about the old days of struggle?

It was that sort of heady question about what counts that led me to take my CEO hat off for a week and fly off to the Himalayan peaks.

There is no doubt that gold s heady rise to the peak, from around 350 per ounce in July 2003, had investors drooling. The price would rise today because everyone had become convinced that it would rise even further tomorrow.

Indian GDP grew at heady rates of 8 10 per year between 2004 and 2007, a period that seemed to herald a decisive break from the anemic Hindu rate of growth. Reforms had unleashed new entrepreneurial energies and the prospect of a brighter future lifted people s aspirations.

Understandably, the exposure of the IPL as a morass of deceit, discredited by spot fixing episodes engineered by unscrupulous bookies and venal players, has deflated such heady notions. Cricket continues to hold many Indians in thrall, but many others have forsaken it in the wake of the IPL revelations.

Triumphant capitalism, idolatry of the land, and the comforts of the status quo produce a heady cocktail. But, high on the benefits of globalization, and waiting with a mixture of excitement and apprehension for the coming of a new post Western world order, Israelis are dancing on the rim of a volcano.

The Madonna like status of Cory Aquino in the Philippines was inspiring in the heady days of People Power, but did little to bolster the institutions of a secular democracy. In Poland, once the battle against Communism was won, the Solidarity movement was soon sundered by conflicts between secular democrats and believers who looked to the Church for guidance.

Unlike the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, the current fighting in Libya presents Al Qaeda with an opportunity to confirm its classic narrative about the importance of change through violence. More troubling still is that Libya s violence reveals certain features of the Middle East that had been forgotten after the heady success in Tunis and Cairo.

The United States, quick to capitalize on regional concerns triggered by China s increasingly muscular self assertion, has strengthened its military ties with its existing Asian allies and forged security relationships with new friends. But the heady glow of America s return to center stage in Asia has obscured key challenges in remaining the region s principal security anchor in the face of China s strategic ambitions.

But it has been a while since Indians and Chinese had much to do with each other. The heady days of Hindi Chini bhai bhai ( Indians and Chinese are brothers ), the slogan coined by Nehru s India to welcome Chou En Lai in 1955, gave way to the humiliation of the 1962 border war, after which it was Hindi Chini bye bye for decades.

The reinternment, organized by Hungary s anti communist opposition on the 31st anniversary of his execution, drew more than 100,000 attendees, heralding the beginning of the end of the country s sclerotic regime. We Hungarians, and Central Europe in general, have come far since those heady times, but the past 20 years have also given us much cause to question the path we took.

Long used to wielding power, the military had become increasingly wary of Mubarak s efforts to groom his son as his successor. Yet today s heady talk of freedom cannot obscure the reality that the people s revolution has so far led only to a direct military takeover, with the decades old emergency law still in force and the country s political direction uncertain.

The gaunt, gentlemanly Mazowiecki had served as an adviser to Lech Wałęsa, the leader of the Solidarity movement. He had seen the movement swell to more than nine million members in the heady days after the August 1980 Gdansk Shipyard strike and, like the rest of the movement s leadership, had been interned when General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and banned Solidarity 16 months later.

One of India s more astute young commentators, Sreeram Chaulia, captures this heady exuberance well Every milestone in advanced rocket science, he writes, is a shot in the arm for national self confidence, showing that India is headed for global leadership. When the chips are down, or if there is a national calamity, memories of the Mars orbiter blazing a trail in the sky will sustain the faith that the future belongs to India.