The long dark tea time of the soul

रङ्ग दे बसन्ती के पहले िदन का पहला शो देखने के बाद, मेरे और सोनाली की सोच िबल्कुल िवपिरत थी, हमेशा की तरह। जहाॅ सोनाली िफल्म के अन्त से अत्यन्त प्रभािवत थी, वही मै सोच रहा था की िफल्म मेॅ कुछ युवको द्वारा, केवल एक नेता को मार देने से िकसी भी समस्या का समाधान [...]

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Thanks to Abhishek for suggesting this title. We were discussing the google maps showing pak-occupied-kashmir as Pak occupied Kashmir. The slight variation on the Indian map aside, Abhishek’s contention was that how does it matter whether it is Pakistan occupied Kashmir or Kashmir occupied Pakistan? Interesting thought. But that comment made me think of something [...]

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About six months earlier, I saw a programme on CNN comedy central. It was the time when the Bush thing had appointed Wolfowitz as World bank president and Bolton as the US representative to the UN, inspite of all the opposition. Well using appropriate visuals and graphics the commentator argued that the balls (the testicles) [...]

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Iran has a right to possess nuclear weapons, and so says the self-proclaimed leaders of the workers and peasants in our country. Their impeccable logic is, since Israel, another self proclaimed true heir of the promised land, already has a huge arsenal of nuclear warheads and continuous support from the self proclaimed champion of justice [...]

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We, Indians, must have heard/read/uttered this slogan a million times in our lifetime. “Kashmir se Kanyakumari tak Bharat ek hai” (India is One from Kashmir to Kanyakumari). The interesting question is, India is one what between its northern and southern ends? (Kashmir se Kanyakumari tak Bharat kya hai?) I was pondering over it for quiet [...]

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It is a top-down-bottom-up, rob-poor-to-make-rich-richer implementation of socialism in India. It benefits the least who are the intended beneficiaries, at least, in the slogans and empowers the rich and the well-to-do to become even more richer and weller-to-do.
Last year, the government announced a hike in EPF interest rate. Many of the people, I know, are [...]

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There are an uncountable number of problems, associated with our country and our society. In fact, every civil society has its share of problems which affects a not infitesimally small percentage of its population, and in many cases society as a whole. The idea of utopia, or ramrajya, is so hypothetical, that it is impossible [...]

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They might put me in jail for this. This will be regarded as a comtempt of court. There is something basically wrong with our judiciary. The sheer volume of cases rotting in our courts tell this. Why, on an average it takes 2 years to depose even the simplest of cases?
And then they find time [...]

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Q. What is Chalis transform?
A. Its an operator, which operates on whatever that comes out of your mouth. Every uttered word, phrase, and the combination of above can be applied for a Chalis transform.
Q. Is it easy to understand?
A. Yes. Though the Chalis transform in itself is a very complex operator, but anyone who has [...]

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Very frequently, I read about Indian growth being bogged down because of the lack of ‘Labour reforms’ in India. That led me to ponder about the meaning of the term ‘Labour Reforms’? Searching the dictionary.com, I found out that Labour means “a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages;” and [...]

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