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• Fire in ice Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:41:26
  I dont represent any international peace agency. Nor do i have a professional degree or training in broking peace. One fine day i decided to follow, what the heck is actually happening there. The reason for the dawn of that “fine” day being, i saw a picture of one pink salwar clad lady, throwing stones [...]
• Unsolved questions on Religion Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:34:18
  India, one of the most secular countries in the nation, is routinely shaken by communal violence.
  Headlines that rip your heart:

  Thirty-eight people burnt alive, 12 among them were children.
  Property worth lakhs of rupees gutted down to ashes.
  Shops looted and vehicles torched.
  Vikram Patel, Swastik Mehta, Joy Lobo, Heeralal Shah, Brian Phillips, Iqbal Mehmood, Aslam Khan – casualties [...]

• A fine example of Indian style Business English Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:03:33
  “The gentleman who wrote the journal from which the following pages are chiefly drawn, went out to India in the beginning of 1805, and returned in 1819. …The impressions made upon his mind by the scenes which he beheld in India, are now, with deference, offered to the public.”
  Thus begins the book “Fifteen years in [...]
• The twist in the mega-famous NRI’s career Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:14:55
  Back in 1999, Shyamalan’s star was not simply rising but exploding into awareness.  I still remember the impact that The Sixth Sense had upon its release. Five-storey billboards whetted anticipation, and four- and five-star reviews dropped in virtually every newspaper. It was a restrained ghost story, beautiful and enigmatic with a twist that had all [...]
• book review Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:00:45
  Obesity and the health issues that accompany it have long been a subject of intense discussion in the Western world, where the abundance of super-cheap and highly processed foods has been linked to many health disorders. David Kessler’s, The End of Overeating is an important addition to the books written on the subject – why, [...]
• They also serve.. Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:14:00
  Two decades ago, drinking water was scarce here and the soil was hard laterite. An open well, the only source of water, used to dry up by February. Expert water diviners had shrugged off their shoulders leaving its harrowed former owner deflated. But today, in the same farm, 15 acres are being irrigated and water [...]
• Indian English in all its flavours Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:40:48
  Macmillan Publishers are running a campaign featuring English used in various regions of the world, with all the localizations and accents. This year, it is “Indian English” month and you can view the first entry here. Feel free to contribute, and enjoy the fun:
  I am now going to pull something other than teaching out of [...]
• Greater Hyderabad …or.. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:54:56
  If anyone is looking for proof that will illustrate the popular adage about the cure being worse than the disease then they needn’t go far to find it. They can find sufficient proof and lots of it right here in Hyderabad. They only have to step out of their houses and look down at the [...]
• Why Dumpster Diving Will Save the Planet Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:43:56
  “You need to eat trash.” It’s Seifert’s selling point, if he’s selling anything. He assures me he’s never once gotten sick from eating out of a dumpster. It’s different than eating from a restaurant’s dumpster, too. He clarifies the difference in pulling wrapped, packaged items out of trash bags that were just sitting on a [...]
• shabe-baraat, thanks giving Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:27:11
  Yesterday was Shabe-Barat , an auspicious night for the Muslims, the night on which the almighty pardons the sins of his children who seek his forgiveness. From the sunset to dawn is the auspicious period to seek the forgiveness and during this time Almighty’s light of forgiveness descends upon the sky.
  Nicely written page about a [...]

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