Happy Winter Solstice
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Today – December 21, 2024 – marks the winter solstice in the northern
hemisphere. It was precisely at 1:21 a.m. Pacific time (9:21 a.m. UTC —
Coordinated U...
Local Council By-Elections December 2024
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This month saw 26,636 votes cast in 18 local authority contests. All
percentages are rounded to the nearest single decimal place. Seven council
seats chan...
Brazil Bans X from Using Children to Power Its AI
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Click to expand Image The logo of X, the social media platform formerly
known as Twitter, displayed on a smartphone in Sao Paulo, Brazil, August
31, 2024. ...
Top Posts of 2024
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2024 was an exhausting year. I don’t remember any period that seemed so
chaotic. Roughly 70 countries had elections this year, encompassing half
the worl...
Of Business Ethic and Ethics
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Cover of book on Mr. Ratan Tata
The chairman of Tata Trusts and former chairman of Tata Sons, Mr. Ratan
Tata, passed away on the 10th of October. The las...
Ratan Tata – shy, tough and a trail-blazer
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A young US-based architect who became India’s leading industrialist Love of
aircraft, cars and dogs influenced his business and his life Ratan Tata,
who h...
UNPACKING THE BLASPHEMY LAWS OF PAKISTAN
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Introduction Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy laws have been used to
perpetrate legit imised violence, executed in the name of religion. These
laws have bee...
2 to 2 1/2 Year Educational Goals
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Hard to believe my little baby is now 2! She's not much of a baby anymore.
Her face is losing that babyish roundness, her legs are longer and
straighter,...
Excerpts “The Sati Strategy” – Koenraad Elst
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Related Posts: A rebuttal to Abul Kasem – “Women in Hinduism” by R Maliger
and “Women in Hinduism” – Part II
The post Excerpts “The Sati Strategy” – Koen...
The Holiest Thing I Read Today — 02.12.2021
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By Q.M. Saltanat, PTB; SBMM Everyone had been dreading that Buzdar would go
out with a whimper leaving nary a trace on history. But with one master
stroke ...
The Indian Premier League 2021 Auction
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The Indian Premier League (IPL) started in 2007 and is usually contested
between March and May. It was created by the Board of Control for Cricket
in Ind...
Kaalkut. Chapter 21
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1 March 2020 23:40 Hours IST, Palam Airport, India The gray Embraer ERJ-145
aircraft had landed at Palam in the increasingly cold and foggy night. Some
new...
Why I am infrequent here ?
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I have been working as a social impact consultant from last 8 years and
before that was a student of rural management. This parallel journey kept
me occup...
In Search of Macondo
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There are a few places, known to us through literature, that let themselves
be re-discovered. One of them is the Caribbean coast of Colombia, the site
of s...
Swalpa controversy
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Four panelists and a protest. A couple of weeks after the Modi government
revoked the special status of Jammu & Kashmir, V Ravichandar, honorary
director o...
Will Kumaraswamy survive as Karnataka CM?
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Will Kumaraswamy survive as Karnataka CM?: How long will Kumaraswamy
survive as CM of Karnataka? Will BJP be able to pouch JDS/Congress MLAs to
form gov...
Testimony (اظہار) by Ahmed Faraz
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On the occasion of his 87th birth anniversary Testimony (اظہار) By Ahmed
Faraz If I am as silent as a rock Don’t think that I Am a stranger to the
embe...
Mizuya Milk Tea Drink Mix Philippines Reviews
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Mizuya Milk Tea Drink Mix is an amazing drink combination and one of the
most nutritious drinks ever produced. It’s made using a combination of milk
and ...
DENUNCIATION OF POONA PACT
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The untouchables were forced to sign the Poona Pact under the impact of the
coercive fast of Mr.Gandhi. Dr. Ambedkar denounced it the very next day
express...
Trump makes International Law Crucial for Peace
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Major powers tend to reject international law when rulings run counter to
their interests insisting that the distant courts carry no jurisdiction.
China re...
Saketh Rajan Memorial Website Updated
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I have updated the website dedicated to Com Saketh Rajan, to view the new
additions scroll down towards the bottom of the website.
https://sites.google.co...
Relaunching camera trapping, call for volunteers
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KANS is relaunching its camera trapping exercise after a long hiatus. This
is the report of the first trip. We need volunteers to keep this going.
Camera ...
Reflections on Design Publishing in India
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*POOL Annual 2 Foreword June 2015*
*Reflections on Design Publishing in India*
Foreword for POOL Annual Volume Two – June 2015
http://www.indipool.com/produ...
The Brahmin Problem
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This post is the first of my series on The Brahmin Problem. Situation One:
India is poor. No, Indians are poor. No, no, some Indians are poor. Stage
1: Ind...
India is being modi-fied
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On the surface this might look like yet another case of gang-rape. Another
minor assaulted by a bunch of pervert criminals. But is there is a silver
linin...
HP Envy X2, Perangkat Tablet Anyar Resmi Dirilis
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Pasar tablet kembali kehadiran produk terbaru. Kali ini produk terbaru
tersebut datang dari pabrikan HP (Hewlett Packard). Tablet yang dinamai
dengan HP E...
Get India going, don’t worry about Hindi
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We really don’t need tax-funded babus to promote Hindi or protect India’s
official language from Macaulay Putras. What we need is to focus on getting
Indi...
Owlish Stance
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Bankers aren’t boring any more. They discuss whether they are doves or
hawks, as the RBI Governor appears to announce the monetary policy. Would
his pol...
Organisations as Defenses against Anxiety
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This was one of my favourite piece in my first book, "Understanding
Organisations: Organisational Theory and Practice in India" (Chapter 11,
Section D), ...
Blog Break
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For the past four years, I have been blogging daily. Somewhere, the ideas
are becoming repetitive. So, I decided it is time to take a break. I will
continu...
Deeply Offended
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Rekha's love-child with Amitabh Bachchan is going to be an art film
director in Bhojpuri - to promote unity in diversity Continue reading →
The Ugly, The Bad and The Good
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I am not narrating here the 1966 Italian/Spanish epic spaghetti western
film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood.
September 11th, 2001 very...
NDTV Hindu Program on Two and a Half Books
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NDTV Hindu did a feature on 'Two and Half Books' in Chennai. 'Two and a
Half Books' was a joint event on my book i.e The Upside Down Book of
Nuclear Pow...
The Suburb Mentality
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A suburb is an upgraded village: a spatially bounded space where people
live under the illusion of knowing each other, of feeling protected by
their belong...
Caste clamour on Internet sets in!
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This is an article published in Indian Express dated 12th June, 2010. The
link to this article is given below. Internet has given castes a new dais.
For id...
Cultural diversity in a research lab
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I thought that this discussion of cultural diversity in a research lab
would be interesting to my readers in India and elsewhere who work in a lab
full wit...
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*Wither Shura e Nazar?*
President Karzai recently announced his new cabinet with the glaring
omission of Dr. Abdullah Abdullah as Foreign Minister. Instead...
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We inform our readers to update their bookmarks to
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