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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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How intolerant can we get?

Intolerance seems to have become a way of life lately, and it doesn’t take too much to offend people or “hurt their sentiments” if recent events are any indication; some people from an NGO beating up a Pakistani girl for sporting an Urdu tattoo on her back, others vandalising Mumbai University over a perceived injustice to the Marathi language, the [...]

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Happy New Year – 2009

Here’s wishing everyone and their close ones a Happy New Year. Hope 2009 rings in some change for the better and we have a more peaceful year than 2008. In retrospect, 2008 leaves behind memories and experiences I will always treasure. Here’s a warm and heartfelt thank you -

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JFK – The Mystery Continues…

On November 22, 1963, US President John F.Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas. This is probably one of the greatest whodunits ever, with no conclusive evidence about the events of that day. So many theories, that it’s simply mind boggling…

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