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Obama gets Nobel Peace Prize – Surprised?

I’m sure a lot of people across the world were surprised when it was announced that US President Barack Obama was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, warding off contenders who seemed more deserving. The blogosphere and twitterati were all agog over this issue and I’d been meaning to write about this, but something kept [...]

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Carla’s tryst with “Keratoconus”

A friend’s wife recently had a harrowing tryst with “Keratoconus“…   Here’s her experience, or rather “eyesperience…  Shri Ganapati Netralaya……… http://www.netralaya.org/                                                                 An experience to remember!!   Like any newly wed happy bride, I was settling down to a new life in Pune – one that would be interspersed with activities that I was passionate about.  [...]

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No time for blogging

Have not been finding enough time to blog lately, and the frequency of posts looks all set to dwindle to some extent. As if lack of time wasn’t a problem enough, my internet connection has been acting up big time. The service provider (BSNL) has been giving me a lot of grief and yes, numerous [...]

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500 cops and 50 hrs – All this to kill one dacoit

One of the biggest WTF kinda news I’ve come across…  Ghanshyam Kevat, a dreaded dacoit, was gunned down by UP cops in a village in Chitrakoot yesterday. Nothing particularly amazing about this piece of news, but then look at the stats.. it was a single dacoit against almost 500 heavily armed cops and commandos, and what’s [...]

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LK Advani and Google AdSense – The Second Coming

Aaaaaaaaargh !!!!!!!! Some time ago, I had disabled LK Advani’s Google ads on this site, but lo and behold, new ads are popping up all over the place, and that too in all available sizes !!  

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Politics is fishy business

Gujarat CM Narendra Modi remarked that he and fellow BJP counterparts were like big ocean fish who weather big storms, and called Rahul Gandhi a small fish, floating around in the comfort of aquariums. The Congress, not to be outdone, called Modi a piranha, who devoured human beings…

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The Pink Chaddi Campaign

‘The Pink Chaddi Campaign’ – hmmm, must say I was intrigued when I happened to come across this a day ago. Was curious to know more, and stumbled upon this campaign Facebook, which speaks of their plan to send pink chaddies to the office of the Sri Rama Sene on Valentine’s Day. Yup, these Rama Sene souls are the ones who tried to protect [...]

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