News and Trivias about India.
Have you ever wondered why people starts pelting stones at shops and buses whenever a high profile celebrity like a film star or mass leader/ politician dies? All of a sudden, from no where they get all the stock of stones, rods and wooden logs to carry out the mass destruction? Why the...
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There comes a moment, a time when one gets the chance to test his courage. Some takes time to react on that moment and some do not take any action at all, but few does. A moment of courage makes an Ordinary person a Hero, a real Hero who makes a difference. No,...
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A year back, I was going through a community in a networking site, when news trickled in that there is a gunfire in Mumbai. Initially, I thought it might be a gang war. As minutes went and I turned to news channels the severity of the night dawned. Next 60 hours was an...
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My friend wanted to join politics. Thanks to multi-party democracy, In India we have no dearth for parties.
So he joined a party. He had good oratory skills. His caste algorithm matched with potential vote bank so no one asked him why he joined the party.
First time he took the mike “I am proud...
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh considers Naxalism Indian’s biggest internal threat. No doubt about it. It’s fair to acknowledge a problem but the logical extension to the acknowledgement is what we are going to do about it? Unfortunately, the government seems to have no clarity in approach to handle this problem.
Past few years,...
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India’s Mission PSLV-C14 was successfully accomplished today. With this, the launch vehicle PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) propelled into space the 958 Kg Oceansat-2 and six nano-satellites.
As per the plan, the launch vehicle first flung out Oceansat-2 at an altitude of 720 km above the earth in a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), followed by the...
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Someone tweeted Shashi Tharoor:
"Tell us minister, next time you travel to Kerala, will it be cattle class?"
And our MoS tweeted back
"Absolutely, in cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows."
O boy! That would have rattled the netas of his own party and God bless our dear MoS with lady luck...
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Election 2009 has broken the back of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) , the supposed to be the part of difference and the second largest opposition party of India. Defeats and victories are part of democratic process. Defeats should lead to introspection , analysis to identify the reasons for the defeat and find straregies...
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The media has hit the panic button and the public has been terrified. Indian cities seem to be under a swine fly hysteria , if the news reported in the TV channels have to be believed.
Finally , even I am fortified. My wife has asked me not to visit movie halls for...
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Dastkar is a society for crafts and craftspeople . Its an umbrella organization that brings artisans of different parts of India under one roof to enable them to sell directly to the public avoiding middlemen. They conduct exhibition cum sales in various cities and give a boost to the exposure , sales and working...
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