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Terrorism: A Questionable response
Terrorism in the name of one particular religion is haunting humanity today. Two months have elapsed since 26/11 and the masterminds behind the attack are still at large. Why the Indian government and security agencies have failed to safeguard the lives and properties of innocent Indians and when can we put a full stop to terror? The answer to this vexed question lies in answering those politically incorrect others which escape public discourse. ...
| S Basu |
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Islam, History of Hindus and Jews
Simply put, the 2008 Mumbai mayhem, the 2001 attacks on Indias parliament, train bombings in London and Spain (2004 and 2005), steadily spreading terrorist attacks from tribal areas to urban Pakistan (2006 to present), the 2008 attack on Indian Consulate in Afghanistan and the 9/11 attacks on America kind of murderous violence may stop when all the good people in Pakistan, including the community elders and spiritual leaders who want a decent future for their country declare, as a collective tha...
| K Bhatia |
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Net Generation & Obama victory
I have just finished reading a very exciting and revolutionary book titled GROWN UP DIGITAL, How the Net Generation is changing your world, by Don Tapscott. He is Chairman of the nGenera Innovation Network and an adjunct Professor of Management at the Joseph L Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is an international bestselling author or coauthor of eleven books, including Wikiomics, Paradigm Shift, and The Digital Economy. No one knows the digital generation and its impact on ...
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Reactions to Terror should be harsh
In the social context, human behavior is a set of complex interactions between the individuals. The inherent complexity attracted many social scientists to pursue theoretical and empirical studies on the subject. They defined human behavior as a composite of actions and reactions-to-the-actions of individuals. While an action has a single independent origin, the reactions to it are different many. Consequently human behavior is an inexact science of social psychology. This may sound fuzzy. The e...
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Recession: Time for Ergodic Cerebration
It is baffling to learn about Ramalingam Raju. A person who, just a year ago, was called a renowned, distinguished entrepreneur and an international business leader, is today behind bars for financial misappropriation in the company which he himself had built from scratch-Satyam. If the media informants are to be trusted, he had been keeping up the defalcation for the past decade! Wasnt it during this time that he was honoured with awards and accolades of both national and international standing...
| U Prabhu |
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Ayurvedic Massage
Ayurvedic Massage with feet is practised in Kerala Choutti system of massage. In this method, the patient wishing to undergo massage treatment lies on a matress and the therapist glides over the patients oiled body by using feet. The therapist holds a rope hanging over patients body for support.However,there are many limtations to the therapists movements and massage strokes in this system. Moreover,this type of massage is rather exhaustive for the therapist himself....
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Slumdog Millionaire: Racial prejudice cont..
This ostentatious display of anti Hindu sentiment is of course lost on the jingoists or those ABCDs who go gaga over such pernicious cinema. Sincere critics questioning the dumb plot where a slum boy grows up into a sophisticated leftist JNU product with a flawless English accent are censured by appealing to the authority of the Golden globe awards. They keenly forget the film was precisely designed for that, appeal to the racial sensitivities of those who really matter! Therefore, even the libe...
| S Basu |
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Swami Vivekananda: A legacy denied
Vivekananda was the first Indian who impacted the West despite criticizing Christianity and asserting Hindu superiority. Unlike Gandhis irrationality in considering Western civilization to be a spurious antithesis of the pure Indian counterpart despite himself imitating the ideas of Christ, Rosseau and Tolstoy; Vivekananda cherished the values and achievements of both despite the influence of no foreign thinker on him. His influence on Sri Aurobindo who represents the last viable fusion of the E...
| S Basu |
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Emulation of Fallacies
In India, since time immemorial, we have been in pursuit of a society which is laudable as far as principles, ethics, and rationale go. Our pursuits have not [just] been towards creating a financially affluent society. We have been rather immensely zealous in working towards a civilization where all and sundry would live in peace, dignity, and with honor.Yes, it is very much possible that we, especially a large section of the youth, can begin a self-defeating argument against evil practices once...
| U Prabhu |
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"Imagining India" - A Book Review
At first glance, Nandan Nilekanis Imagining India is daunting.500+ pages, densely packed with statistics, policy prescriptions and anecdotes do not make for easy bedtime reading.yet I found it highly engaging and written in a very readable style. If there was ever a book you wished that reflected a birds eye of what ails India, Imagining India would come pretty close to it.On the very first page, in the preface, Nandan Nilekani recalls a conversation with a visitor in which he was asked:Why dont...
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Media under Scrutiny
A billion strong Hindus have been taken for a ride, for so long, by so many eminent people, and at last they have seen through the game. Hindus have been woken rudely after Mumbai 26/11 up, are alerting other Hindus who are in deep coma to wake up to the Hindus who have been kept under Maya that all religions are the same and gain you the same goal is Moksha delivered to the Hindu society. ...
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An [hour] with a Prostitute!
By: U. Mahesh PrabhuJan-01-2009Authors Home PageViews expressed here are authors own and not of this website. Full disclaimer is at the bottom.(Author is Editor-In-Chief of upcoming apolitical and illustrated family magazine FOLKS and Fellow of Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London (UK)) Feedback to authorIt took me a lot of time to decide whether or not to write about this incident in my life. As a guy who has been born and brought up in a relatively conservative and God-fe...
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Lets Buy or Destroy Pak Nukes
Mr. Bret Stephens wants to buy Pakistani nukes (WSJ, Dec. 16, 2008) offering a handsome sum of $100 billion and in case buying is not an option I suggest a coalition of America, NATO, Israel, Russia and India to destroy all Pakistans nuclear assets. For Pakistani army and the ruling elites the nuclear assets are for blackmailing global powers each time Pakistani lashkar or irregular elements are caught in acts of terrorism planned in collaboration with al Qaeda and Taliban leadership.For many pu...
| K Bhatia |
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A Hindu CM for J&K: Any Takers?
Earlier this year when the Hindus of Jammu rose up in arms, their gripe was not merely the revocation of land allotted to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, they were in effect protesting their marginalization for the last 50 years or so in this Muslim majority state of secular India.Democracy is not synonymous with brute majorityism. Embedded in a civilized democracy are subtle nuances that transcend mere numbers and which exhibit a refined compassionate element that carries with it all sections o...
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Vote bank politics: enemy of democracy
While many of the banks are in trouble throughout the world, Vote Bank politics in India is alive and kicking and is a dangerous development for emerging democracies in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.The recent example of an anti majority cabinet minister in India raising possibility of conspiracy in the open murder of ATS officers in Mumbai terrorist strikes, was foolish and was raised because they were investigating, so called, Hindu terrorism and had lost credibility in doing so, ...
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