Category: Ideas and Thoughts
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Want to restart the blog after a long break!
It has been almost 6-7 months, I haven’t added significant content to my blog. In this period of time, I relocated to United States. This was a period of transition, from rupee to dollar. I got strong feeling that this blog was not getting me enough returns for my hard work and time. Frankly speaking,…
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How to stop rapes in Delhi?
Once again Delhi, the capital of India, is in headlines for wrong reasons, for the brutal rape and torture of a five year old girl. She was abducted on April 15 and kept hostage by her neighbor for two days without food and water and repeatedly raped in east Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar. She is the…
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Who killed Mahi?
Mahi, the poor little four years old girl who got trapped in deep borewell 86 hours back, has been pulled out from it but she has been declared dead by the doctor. Actually she was dead even before she was brought outside the borewell. As you already know, the girl was accidentally fell into the…
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Golden Moments of Indian Cricket
English people brought Cricket in India in the 18th-century and it got opportunity to play its first Test match in 1932 at Lord’s. India was the sixth team to be granted Test cricket status. In their first fifty years of international cricket, India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196…
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World is waiting outside the main gate for you
Resul Pookutty is an Academy Award winner Indian film sound designer, sound editor and mixer. He, along with Richard Pryke and Ian Tapp won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for the film Slumdog Millionaire. Besides working for south Indian films, he has also worked in both Hollywood and Bollywood. He is a 1995…
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Do you think it matters where our genes come from?
A few days back a Chennai based rich couple has placed an online advertisement seeking a sperm donor preferably an IITian for artificial insemination. The compensation for this donation will be Rs 20,000. They are looking for IITian as the donor as they desire to have a child with very high IQ and intelligence. The…
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How Indian women should dress?
Recently there has been spate of comments and discussions on how the women should dress in India to avoid sexual harassment, rape and embarrassing situations. According to Director General of Police of Andhra Pradesh, one of the main reasons for rising number of rape cases could be the provocative clothes being worn by women. The…
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What kind of journalism is this?
Last week, rediff.com, India’s one of the oldest web portals, published an interview of Syed Abdul Rehman Geelani. This man was accused of being the mastermind of the attack on Indian parliament. He was charged under POTA and he spent around 2 years in jail. He was later acquitted by the Supreme Court. On the…
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What is wrong with Indian media?
Two days back, Aishwarya Roy gave birth to a baby girl. This is first child for Aishwarya and her husband, Abhishek Bachchan. Fine, every hour thousands of babies born in India. What’s so special about this baby girl? I don’t know but for millions of Indians, it’s a big news. The event has attracted the…
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Sachin Tendulkar completes 15000 runs in Test Cricket
Finally Sachin achieved the milestone of 15000 runs in Test Cricket. Now he is way ahead of the next highest scorer in the biggest version of World Cricket. He was unbeaten on 33 as India reached 2-152 in their second innings at stumps on the third day after being set a challenging 276-run target to…