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Facebook Warrior
The social media, especially Facebook has thrown up many interesting concepts. I explored two interesting phenomenon earlier. First was that of a Facebook Celebrity and the second was that of Facebook...
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
IPL -7 is well underway and already we have witnessed some very entertaining games. While I support no team and have no favorites, I do enjoy some sensational individual batting performances and...
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Battle of the Electorate
Elections 2014 are over and in a couple of days’ time we would know who gets the people’s mandate to govern the country for the next 5 years. Of course, if the public sentiment and the exit poll survey...
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Read not as Written
How often have we seen is that there is a gap between what is written and what is read. Often the state of mind we are in influences how we interpret a written word or phrase. The same holds good for a...
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Clubs and Witch
Recently there was a big ruckus created about a judge not being allowed into a club in Chennai (India) as he turned up in unacceptable attire. The unacceptable attire happened to be traditional South...
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Pacem in Terris
Man is in perennial pursuit of peace, a self-sustaining, self-fulfilling and self-deluding pursuit. Everything that man does is done in the pursuit of peace. God’s are for peace, Religions are for...
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Party To It
Political parties are always in the middle of controversies yet they keep devising methods to steer clear of controversies. Looking at the number of controversies they keep getting embroiled in doesn’t...
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Academic Proportions
There is a term called Academic Inflation. By this I don’t mean the increasing cost of education. What I mean by it is a situation where jobs which needed lesser qualifications are now able to attract...
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Judicial Profiling
The dissenting voice has become a rare commodity in today’s India. The percentage of voter’s turnout in the last election might have indicated a renewed belief in democracy and democratic principles....
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Beyond Enemy Lines
I think, Government of India lost a huge opportunity in altering the India-Kashmir-Pakistan narrative and national interest was again mortgaged to petty domestic politics. A stable and democratic...
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Colere Blindness
I have believed that the definiteness and certainty of many subjects vanishes when they are explored in depth. Culture is one such thing. Culture has been the reason for many modern day conflicts....
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Harmonium and Pandemonium
Recently I happened to hear a song on YouTube; this song was from a popular Pakistani music show, called Coke Studio. It was in Balochi language, a language spoken in Balochistan province of Pakistan...
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Counter-Conversion
The winter session of Indian Parliament, especially the upper house (Rajya Sabha), was a complete washout with no major bills allowed to be tabled. It’s a different issue that BJP again sought the...
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An Yearful
Another year comes to a close. 2014 has been a tumultuous year that had many defining moments. As I sit here, on the penultimate day of the year and contemplate I am overwhelmed with the events that...
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Legintimacy
One might want to believe that relationship between couples needs genuine and voluntary commitment towards each other. While this might be a necessary condition for two individuals to become a couple,...
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Godsend
A glass filled with some water would appear half empty to some and half-filled to others. There is certainly the objective element in the event that of there being a glass and some water in it; yet...
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ShamFul
I am not ashamed to be an Indian, nor am I ashamed to state my nationality when traveling outside the country. Why should I be ashamed of being Indian when there are so many things to be proud of? Why...
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Power of One
Is there power in the unitary? Can an individual have any significant impact on a situation? Man is a social animal and he derives part of his identity from the social group he belongs to. Yet does an...
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VivekLeaks
Man’s effort to institutionalize every aspect of life is well known. There are political institutions, institutions for governance, financial institutions, judicial institutions, academic institutions,...
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In-Dependence
Independent is defined in dictionary as ‘not subject to another’s authority’ and Independence is defined as being Independent. India celebrated its 69th Independence Day recently with much fanfare. As...
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