Analysis of contemporary events

Wednesday, 23 January 2013

“And I thought that I loved”- My entry for the get published contest

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The Idea - The narrator is a typical modern generation young professional always on the move.  The story takes the narrator on a ...
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Thursday, 3 January 2013

The Great Game continues

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Starting from the geopolitical struggles between Russia and England in the 19th century over Afghanistan to the current day scene post O...

Gender equality paradox

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This documentary has some fine points uncovered about gender equality comparing developed countries and developing countries:

Commonality of Articles

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Some Articles with same number have leaked (as Salman Rushdie might have liked to refer to) into different constitutions and charters with ...

Butterfly Effect

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A butterfly flaps its wings in Africa and a hurricane formation takes place in Asia. The Butterfly Effect theory proposed by Edward...

The Halal Facebook

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It refers to the social networking portal in Pakistan, alternative to Facebook that came up as a response to ban on Facebook by judiciary a...
Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Direct Cash Transfer

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Government is almost acting in haste to implement Direct Cash Transfer (DCT) scheme before 2014 Lok Sabha elections. For this reason the s...

Peace across the Northern Limit Line

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Northern limit line is the maritime boundary between North Korea and South Korea in Yellow Sea. Often there have been clashes between two n...

Stock broker with $5b US bonds

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Tax authorities have put this catch in Tamilnadu single handed equivalent to all catches in last two years. In India legal limit for such f...

What is in a name

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Noted author, columnist and Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor has suggested disclosing the name of Delhi gang-rape victim and naming...
Saturday, 29 December 2012

What's in a race

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There has been hue and cry specially by Asian-Americans over the App Make Me Asian demanding its removal from Google Play Store, calling ...

Teachers - now Students - of Gun

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The Newtown massacre in USA has seen the arms debate rekindle - whether to put more arms in people's hand to safeguard themselves or t...

A visionary departs

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Ratan Tata retired from Tata Group after taking it to new heights in his stint of twenty years. The path of company under him during last...

Old enemies : new issues

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Cold War era hangover keeps on taking various form of tussles between USA and Russia, even though erstwhile USSR disintegrated way back in...

India's longest railway tunnel

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The trial run for India's longest railway tunnel cutting through Pir Panjal   range in Kashmir was done successfully amid an applauding...
Friday, 28 December 2012

Compare prices of books to buy online in India

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www.kbooksearch.com turns out to be a very useful website to compare price of books across various e-commerce websites in India. A sa...

Fiscal cliff

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The term is used to refer to tax increases and spending cuts to be applied automatically from end of this year in USA. The deal has be...

A culture apart: policing in Stanford

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The culture of policing in India is a debated topic where the 'police' word raises similar thoughts as in colonial times in the mi...

Not man but woman as well

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The patriarchal mindset in India finds voice in insensitive remarks on women not only in men's voice but in women's voice as well. ...

The war of states at NDC

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NDC (National Development Council) meeting, convened to discuss 12th plan paper (2012-17), saw different states showing their displeasure ...
Thursday, 27 December 2012

Project Chirag

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The project has been true to its name bringing light to the lives of many. Project Chirag is a n initiative by students from Mumbai t...

Asteroids for future space missions

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NASA plans to turn near earth asteroids orbiting in space into space stations. The idea is to capture these asteroids through a launched r...

New frontiers of speed in China

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China has set another benchmark in putting in place the longest high-speed rail line between Beijing and Guangzhou .  The move has led...

IITs : External peer review proposed

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None of the Indian universities including IITs have figured in top 200 in international rankings, the most recognized rankings being Times...

Cable TV Digitization : deadline and bottlenecks

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The latest in a series of bottlenecks being faced after Central government made digitization of cable TV compulsory is opposition by West ...
Wednesday, 26 December 2012

The lost tribe from Israel

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800 BC.  Bnei Menashe , a tribe descending from Jews, is banished to India. Since then they live in the states of Mizoram and Manipur in I...

'Newsweek' goes digital

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Newsweek  is the second largest news weekly magazine in USA. Its print version could not hold ground in an era brought about by online revo...

The pirates of Somalia

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They don't make headlines everyday but neither are they wiped out from the blue waters of Arabian Sea to rest in history pages. The pol...

Two things about T20 last evening

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First, the Christmas day T20 India-Pak match played in Bangalore was symbolic of improving bilateral ties between India and Pakistan. Paki...

Curious case of Delhi Police

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Delhi turns out to be a unique case in Police administration where it has maximum control by the Central government and the NCT Delhi gove...
Tuesday, 25 December 2012

Santa never brings gift to me

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Another Happy Christmas! The world is not over and the wait is not over. I share the pain of Daniel B George -

Time to contribute

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The government has appointed JS Verma Committe to suggest amendments to criminal laws relating to safety and security of women. The sugges...

Harvard Business Review has 8 Indians among top 100 CEOs

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The CEOs include - Y. C. Deveshwar (ITC) Subir Raha (ONGC) Mukesh Ambani (Reliance) AM Naik (L&T) AK Puri (BHEL) Sunil Bharti ...

Thik Hai

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Lazy editing of PM Dr. Manmohan Singh's address to the nation to calm the protesting nation post Delhi gang-rape incident led to much ...

Opium, cannabis and all those stuffs

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There are only three kind of people involved in these in order of the supply chain- Growers, Sellers and Users. The User category is not a...
Monday, 24 December 2012

CERN gets observer status at UN

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UN General Assembly has granted CERN an observer status. It is the first physical science laboratory to be granted so. CERN, located o...

Happy Decade Delhi Metro

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The most important contribution of Delhi Metro was in integrating the Delhi NCR region more closely. Another was to give people freedom fr...

The tale of two Sudans

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The fight for the two Sudans started much earlier than on 9th July, 2011 when South Sudan separated from Sudan to become the latest entran...

That time of the year

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That trains and flight have started to get delayed by fog warn me against travelling in these modes of transport for a fortnight or so, the...

Take a bow, the Master retires

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Deeds themselves speak for great people. For Sachin the statistics speak in no lesser terms. But what stands apart Sachin in the Cricket f...
Sunday, 23 December 2012

Gun Laws in USA

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The tragic mass shooting at Newtown was another reminder to reconsider the gun laws in USA. Guns are easily and legally available over the...

Lasik : An Indian behind it

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The well known Lasik Surgery procedure to correct vision was invented by none but an Indian scientist Mr. Rangaswamy Srinivasan back in 198...

No Barfi from Oscars

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Barfi is out of the race from the Oscars. Sooner or later it had to be. As they call them inspired movies in the Bollywood, it was copied ...

Delhi rape: A reminder to introspect and find solutions

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The recent heinous rape incident in Delhi stirred the consciousness of the masses in India. Men and women alike are out on the roads, prot...
Saturday, 22 December 2012

2G lingers on

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The political overtones in the 2G affair right since the CAG's famous loss estimates have never been in disguise. Politics survives o...

The mindset inherited

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While discussing some topic in a TV debate politician Sanjay Nirupam commented on the politician-turned-actress Smiriti Irani that sometim...

The Sanskritisation of a tradition continued

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If you thought that chair throwing, collar grabbing, slogan shouting, challenging opponents in plain Hindi/English/others, porn watching an...

The Sin Tax

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Interestingly, this is the name of the new tax that the government plans to put on tobacco and liquor, in order to finance the health budg...

Accreditation, Education and Nation

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The quality of higher education in our country is hardly a match with the quantity - myriad number of engineering and medical colleges run...
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