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[12 Oct 2005 | One Comment | 85 views]

Yes! I am not kidding.
Just click on the links below to see what I am talking about :
1. http://alternativeperspective.blogspot.com.
2. http://www.cyd.liu.se/~kamva881/blogs.
3. http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/
4. http://www.technorati.com/search/iipm.
5. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3395977/
Indians never sit still !

India »

[19 Sep 2005 | One Comment | 112 views]

I didn’t get to update my blog during the last couple of days, so I would like to apologize to my friend Vel for not spreading the word earlier than this. Anyway, here it is:
I have been involved with a great organization – Project Why for a while.
Read more about them here -
http://www.ideamani.com/2005/09/project-why.html
They have more than 500 children that they take care of and only have money left for a month.
A few bloggers, myself included have come up with an idea – A lucky draw for the charity with a …

India »

[25 Aug 2005 | No Comment | 84 views]

The “blogosphere” is abuzz with reviews and commentary about the academy award winning documentary, “Born into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids”“. I haven’t yet seen the movie myself, but have been reading about it and the directors on various websites.
I am not going to say so much about the movie (mainly because I haven’t seen it yet) as about how I think there is a disbalance in the media-portrayal of India and the reality. Now, I am not saying that there is no poverty in India, or that there are …

India, Politics »

[15 Aug 2005 | One Comment | 103 views]

Today marks the 58th anniversary of India’s successful freedom struggle. I would like to extend the warmest best wishes to the readers of my weblog on this occasion. At the same time, I salute the martyrs who laid down their lives to fulfill their dream of an independent and progressive Hindustan.
Click here to read the full text of the President of India’s speech to the nation on the eve of the Independence Day. The President of India is akin to the British Crown in that he “reigns” but does …

India, Life and Personal »

[3 Aug 2005 | No Comment | 81 views]

The Times of India has been under a lot of fire from bloggers recently for making a “pseudo-mockery” of the Mumbai floods by posting sound-bytes from their star readers about not being able to read their favorite newspaper in the morning. The first blog post that I came across about this was at Indianwriting.

I do not expect this from a newspaper like The Times of India that takes pride in being the 24th largest newspaper in the world with a circulation of 1,680,000. Gimmicks like this do not set up …