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  • Deceptive debates

    Lady Saga has done it again. In a prime time show in her husband’s news channel CNN-IBN, she cheated her viewers into believing that a per-recorded interview was live. She even invited 3 panelists to debate with a recorded tape 🙂

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  • Arise awake engineers.

    Recently Narayana Murthy raised the issue of the falling quality of the graduates coming out of IITs. Indian engineers have failed to achieve their potential in proving themselves as great technocrats, designers or entrepreneurs. Can the esteemed Engineering institutions ensure that India produces another Steve Jobs, another Richard Stallman?”

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  • Ramayana and politics

    A K Ramanujan’s essay, which was a part of the UG course in history at DU was removed. Well, Ramayana is told differently in every village of India. Does it make our belief system any weaker? Read my latest article on the NRI.

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  • Muqaddar ke sikandar

    I am not a big fan of contemporary television shows. Well, my parents are. These days, whenever I speak to my parents over phone, they tend to go gaga about Kaun Banega Crorepati. I had watched a few episodes last month. I also watched the re-runs of a few episodes recently. And I must say,…

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  • Remembering Deshbandhu

    What is freedom? It is impossible to define the term; but one may describe it as that state, that condition, which makes it possible for a nation to realize its own individuality and to evolve its own destiny. -Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das Presidential speech I.N.C. Session, 1922, Gaya.

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  • Of films and dreams

    Film critics see film making in three discrete steps. First being screenplay when the script and its flow is decided. The next step is cinematography, where the film is actually shot, with actors being the medium. The third step is editing, where the film is made presentable to the audience. It is however, the director,…

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  • Giddie Up!

    Seinfeld is arguably one of the best sitcoms of all times. No wonder, it topped the list of greatest TV shows of all time. Not only did it break several conventions of mainstream television, it was truly a show about “nothing”. Take Led Zeppelin, Beatles, or the Design Pattern authors, a gang of four geniuses has always created…

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  • Remembering Jatin Das

    These days when fasting has become a trend for most politicians, does anyone remember Jatin Das? Today is his birth anniversary. He was a true comrade of HSRA, the league of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan, Roshan Singh and Chandrashekar Azad. Jatin Das fasted for 63 days in Lahore jail, and…

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  • My tryst with money

    Money is something I can never really understand. I mean, I know how to earn it, save it, invest it, spend it. But I really don’t know what it truly is? As I kid I could never appreciate crumbs of papers determining life and death of people. I grew up, learning about money from my environment and…

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  • Dear Anna

    I support you with all my heart and soul. I fasted along with you and wrote a series of articles. Right from the outset, you have been righteous. But, it is high time you acknowledge that Overcooking sours the food! Read my latest article on the NRI.

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