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A few days back, the university of Calcutta celebrated its 154th anniversary. Simple it may sound, but this university is a living testament of the glory the city Calcutta holds. The University of Calcutta is the oldest of the modern universities in India. It has produced 4 Nobelists, more than any other Indian university- Ronald…
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A raga a day keeps the doctor away. There live some pied pipers in India who believe in the self healing nature of human body. For thousands of years they have used ragas to cure people from unrecoverable fatal diseases. Read my latest article on the-NRI
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I know some foreign returned Indians who find it difficult to pass stool in Indian toilets. “I need to a dump in a western toilet”, they say. Biologically, squatting is the best position for addressing to nature’s call. It’s natural after all. For a long time through human evolution, we squat. Sitting in a chair-like is relatively new progress. While…
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And a woman who held a baby against her bosom said, “Speak to us of Children.” And he said: “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to…
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Blacksmiths of ancient times never had the microscopic or technical tools to analyze the micro-structure of metals. All they could do is ensure quality only at the physical level. It is no secret now, that Indians used many more types of Irons than what modern metallurgists of today. Same was the case of most other metals.
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It was only 5 years back when Orkut was the primary mode of being connected with old and new friends, at-least for us Indians. It was Orkut that introduced Indians to the idea of social networking. The terms ‘orkutting’, ‘scrapping’, ‘testimonial likh na’, ‘fan ban ja’ were a part of daily jargon for Indian youth.…
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I recently read that the minimum age for voting in India was 21. It was only in 1988, when we amended our constitution to lower the Voting Age from 21 to 18. Since then, I’ve been wondering. Is there a link between the minimum age of voting and its impact on political standards?
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For the second time in the past year, a stampede has killed people recklessly. On the night of January 14, the climactic day of the Sabarimala pilgrimage season, a stampede has cost over 100 lives besides leaving many injured.
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The greatest charm of the Bangalore city is the fact that it is the garden city of India. While cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata cannot survive a day without CNG, Bangalore still has gushes of fresh air to offer. The roads of Bangalore have a cool breezy feel due to the trees around the…
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“The computer industry is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion industry” -Richard Stallman (founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation). I really don’t understand the hype behind cloud computing. Isn’t cloud computing simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more…
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सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 