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The bystander effect is the somewhat controversial name given to a social psychological phenomenon in cases where individuals do not offer help in an emergency situation when other people are present. The probability of help has in the past been thought to be inversely proportional to the number of bystanders. In other words, the greater…
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“let us declare that the state of war does exist & shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses & the natural resources are being exploited by a handful of parasites. They may be purely British capitalists or mixed British and Indian or even purely Indian.” -Bhagat Singh (In his leter to the Punjab…
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The ascent of a country from poverty to prosperity, from tradition to modernity is a great and fascinating enterprise. Despite of the massive inequality it has created, India’s middle class has grown from after the economic reforms in 1991 and it has begun to flex its muscles in the global information economy. But this revolution…
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Though I’m not a hardcore cricket fan, I recently watched a few matches and lo! Sachin is just the same!! His simplicity, humbleness, adaptability, schoolboy-like enthusiasm is off comparison. He recently crossed 30,000 runs in international cricket. And I’m pretty sure, he’ll soon hit a 100 centuries.
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It was only yesterday when I was cursing WordPress for deducting my money thrice during the registration process of this domain. I was actually irritated by the way things had gone. My friend and her mother had trusted me so much by helping me with her credit card in registering for this domain, and all…
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It’s a pity, youngsters in India do not have the vision to think beyond. Neither their parents, nor their grandparents had that vision. This is where the root of the problem is. When I decided to do a project with 10 other friends, I met all types of people. Some had resistance from their family. Some…
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Its exam time and all we can think about is books, notes and coffee. On this context, as a self realization (which every student goes through during exams), I must say that the most discussed topic among hostelites is the inferior quality of education and the teachers who literally don’t know how to teach.
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Immediately after starting this blog I had decided to purchase this domain on my name and launch this website as souravroy.com. Everything was just fine. In the online form, after filling in all the details, the message displayed that “Address line 1 too long. Transaction failed.” I tried the same thing twice and still the…
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I recently saw a pic on Flickr that disturbed me. The pic says “When you program open source, you’re programming Communism” Later in the pic it mentions “A reminder from your friends at Microsoft”
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Ayodhya issue is once again in the limelight, thanks to Justice Liberhan. I’ll take up the entire issue from scratch because most youngsters of my generation don’t even know about it.
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सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 