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On Celebrity Social Responsibility

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:45:29 0000

The do’s and dont’s of a citizen’s action list can fall in two categories - what she must do and what she should do. The ‘must’ is largely related to legal duties such as paying taxes, abiding to civil and criminal laws, following traffic rules, respecting the liberty of fellow citizens, and so on. The ’should’ list includes what a citizen does beyond the ‘must’ list. The ‘must’ list appears very important because we, the...

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How dare Uma Bharti do a kissing publicly?

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:59:58 0000

I strongly condemn this on the behalf of Indian culture & traditions. Please join me!! Anybody there? Muthallik? Photo Courtesy: Times of India, 23rd March edition

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28 PMs for India

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:13:06 0000

I have always been against the regionalism and the politics of the same. Hence, I raise a voice, here, for 28 prime ministers for India, one for each state. After all, why should only the voices of SP or Sena or NCP be heard? Each of 28 states should be treated in same way.

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Mi Vilasrao Deshmukh Boltoye!

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:54:52 0000

Now, this one is really a classic case. Seemingly too much frustrated with the corruption and bribery in government offices, Sanjay Dhotadmal, a man in Pune, applied for ration card and got it issued in the name of Maharashtra's CM Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh. After feeding 2000 bucks to the ration officer, it is indeed not a difficult task to get a ration card in the name of whosoever your choice is. IBN Live reports: Sanjay had actually visited the office to get a copy of his original ration...

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Okay, I am safe, but 20 of us have already died!

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:23:27 0000

I was about to leave my home to go to Hotel Park, Janpath (behind, Connaught Place) where I was scheduled to have my last dinner with my 3 partners (till yesterday). It was sort of a farewell for me after I ended the four years of collaboration. Just then, I got a call from my senior partner, Rajiv, that we need to cancel the booking at the Park and look for some other place nearby which will be much safer. My another partner, Vijay, was still in Janpath, waiting for us to join him....

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And why don't we blog regularly?

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:36:29 0000

Here is the answer: (Source)

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Google's Chrome and everything else

Wed, 3 Sep 2008 04:45:12 0000

So, before Oracle launches its kit for web and desktop, Google has announced the launch of its own browser - Chrome. Heavily using the technologies from Webkit (Apple) and Firefox, this browser will be open-for-source. But, the question is - why another browser? I think Google now arrogantly realizes that the 'web' and especially the 'search' territory are mostly monopolized by Google Inc's products. In addition to the search business, Google has worked quite aggressively, during last 3-4...

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"I" or "i"?

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:14:12 0000

Weeks before, I read few pieces where some writers used "i" instead of "I". I was highly intrigued with this usage of personal pronoun. I even had a discussion with my tech writer friend that whether it is the correct use or not. We had indeed no answers, so, we came to a conclusion that this might be rather a modified kind of literary usage and there might be no grammatical suggestions over exactly which one of them to use. An article on NY Times clears this...

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Geothermal Energy and EGS : New frontiers of global energy quest

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:56:26 0000

While the Indian government is striving to get nods of NSG to make its nuclear energy dreams come true, the quest for renewable energy options have encountered another significant development. Google.org (the philanthropic arm of Google) has decided to invest $10.75 million as parts of its RE<C (Develop Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal) initiative, whereas the Australian government is going to invest $ 27 million for a similar kind of goal. These initiatives are aimed to grab the heat,...

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We shall never forget you, Abhinav!

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:05:49 0000

Back to those days, when Indian shooters have started featuring in international tournaments, an era had started striving to culminate some day. And this was 1994 with Commenwealth and Asiad games. Before that, I don't think anybody had expected us to do anything in shooting. After the ups-and-downs of Indian hockey, there wasn't many hopes left. In the 90s or few years before that, lifters, first men and then women, had started emerging in many game events. Olympic was still a dream for every...

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Don't Call me Brother

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:30:17 0000

> Don't call (me) brother, when (you are) sitting with (your) boyfriend. Hehe!

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Who says India lags behind in education?

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 19:15:13 0000

...When the size of "Coaching for admission to the IITs and other engineering colleges" industry is Rs. 10,000 Crore. ASSOCHAM says: "The amount of money which goes to these institutions is enough to open 30 to 40 IITs with lots of seats that can ensure admission to average candidates," Of course, it doesn't include coaching institutes for management tests, civil services exams, other government services, international tests, medical entrance tests, computer courses, et...

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The Third Mistake

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:03:22 0000

I received June edition of 'Book Today', a monthly newsletter of India Today Book Club, today. The cover picture of the newsletter was of "Amitav Ghosh" who has recently released his new novel, Sea of Poppies, the first in the trilogy of novels. ITBC is offering 10% discount on this book. The interesting part was that Chetan Bhagat's latest book "the 3 mistakes of my life" is coming absolutely free with the purchase of Sea of Poppies. This book was released...

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The Hunger Cafe

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:08:50 0000

Mumbai Journal of New York Times reports: The world is filled with eating houses of every kind, from hamburger joints to three-star restaurants. There are places you drive through and places where you sit down. But the world may be unfamiliar with a Mumbai variation on the theme: the hunger cafe. The hunger cafes have stood for decades on a stretch of road in the Mahim neighborhood. Mumbai’s broken, drifting men squat in neat rows in front of each establishment, waiting patiently....

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Music: a journey of the man to the unknown

Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:53:19 0000

When words leave off, music begins. ~ Heinrich Heine Every time my consciousness gets the hold of my ears, one of the five senses of mine, I hear a rhythm that fills my heart and soul with a random rainbow of sounds and silences. The rhythm is never recited by my consciousness, rather whenever my consciousness wakes up and the senses start working in a synchronized way, every wave entering into circumference of my existence becomes a song and music to my heart to propel it with much more...

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2008: The Year That It Can Be

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:52:44 0000

Greetings, folks! It is another happy new year. Sounds cliché, eh! But no, it’s 2008 which has become alive for the first time, with new resolutions, new plans, new schemes, new this, new that…everything will be new, as we expect, right! Well, it has to be, it’s a new year after all. But, the foundations of most of the New Year happenings are already set in 2007 itself and significantly all the news headlines will be the extensions of the last year’s...

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Free Speech: The Great India Debate

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:51:54 0000

Free speech, censorship, and the fanatical reactions - during last few years, these co-related issues have been spread quite aggressively by the interested junta over the entire country and even the whole word, in general. There are mainly three parties involved, to be precise, which have shown a great deal of enthusiasm. First, who gave the spark for this issue by the self-generated customized exaggerations, by the name of free speech, liberty, art, literature, awareness, objectivism, and so...

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Speed Breaker Ahead

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:51:54 0000

[courtesy - Times of India, Delhi]

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The Dawn Chorus

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:51:05 0000

It was yesterday, when it all came to me. All random, scattered, swollen and trembling gratitudes of mine go to thee. Early dawn, and some dripple dews on yellowish maple leaves. All afresh, but ebbing away, and continuously playing on my heaves. Amidst the beauty the sleep was still on my nerves. Two eyes were reading newspapers and the heart was stumbling on the curves. Some killings, a couple of rapes, shining knives with the people of plague. Also some riots on the name of...

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Right to Emergency Care : Bloody Rumours Again

Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:49:26 0000

Three days back, I received a forwarded mail from Pragnya, a friend of mine, that was about a judgment of Supreme Court. At first, even I got excited by that amazing information. And why not, it was about the right to emergency care that at first sight, gave me an impression of a revolutionary step by the judiciary system. At the next moment, my mind started playing with its database by the help of heuristics. Within moments, I recalled another similar forwarded mail that I had received last...

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