What is more important: the person or our religions?

I am not non-religious; I am anti-religious. I believe that the absence of religion will bring more peace and stability to the world. In any case, religion, as a means to ensure  compliance with “good” has lots its significance, with “legal” rules defining governance, in general. I have seen several “inter-caste” couples, which is still [...]

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Favorite anonymous blog

I used to (and still do) read a lot of blog posts. But, I remained loyal to only those by authors that I personally know of. There was only one anonymous blog that I followed regularly: Prem Panicker’s Smoke Signals, and he is not an anonymous blogger! I tried hard (from my perspective) to follow [...]

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My daughter's favorite songs

My daughter absolutely loves two things: Taking a book in hand and speaking gibberish, and listening to/watching some songs. Here is a list of some from Bollywood that she listens to and/or watches Gulmohar Gar Tumhara Naam Hota The audio used to be an absolute favorite;  I would sing this when she received her shots [...]

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Cardinal Gracias High School, Reunion of 1982 batch

On a request by Sunil Laxminarain, I am creating this new post for passing on his invitation to anyone from the 1982 batch of CGHS for the reunion, next month on 19th December 2009. People who are interested should email Sunil at lnsunil@rediffmail.com or contact him in India at 9819839828. Wow! some of these guys [...]

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New multiplication trick?

Just stumbled across this “new” multiplication trick that has been copyrighted. I haven’t seen the actual trick, but the article says Clay’s method is best explained on paper. Suffice it to say you multiply the digits on the right, cross-multiply and add the digits in the center, then multiply the digits on the left. Using [...]

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Yoplus and 1942: A love story

In a recent Yoplus Yoplait advertisement (the girl seems to be doing yoga or something) that I have been seeing on TV, the background music is the same as the one from the song “Ek Ladki ko Dekha” from the Bollywood movie: 1942 – A love story. If you play the song at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y88juKO48ZU, this [...]

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Daftar ko der ho gayi

This one is for all those friends of mine who did not believe in the existence of this song

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Students build scooters/segways!

We have a new faculty (not so new now that he is one year old into the department). Last semester, he revamped a course and converted it into a fascinating experience for the students. In a period of just less than 4 months, the students built this amazing scooter. You only need to ride it [...]

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Ganga…

A while ago, I stumbled upon Julian Crandall Hollick’s journey from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal along the river Ganga. The 6 part audio series discusses various aspects from the nature, to human soiling to the Farakka dam’s drastic impact on the river’s course. Look for all the details at http://www.ibaradio.org/India/ganga/index.htm I remember [...]

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Moderation

I got a question, “What does it mean that my comment is awaiting moderation?” Well, due to the HUGE number of requests (in some cases orders) to determine caste from a certain last name, I decided to moderate the comments. It was not just the request, but persistent follow-up after I deleted those comments.. in one [...]

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