Wednesday, July 30, 2008

China, India, Chindia?!...

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When I was in class seven (already an avid reader of newspapers) Mao Ze Dong, the ‘Great Helmsman’ who had transformed China and in the proc...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

The Bucket List

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First movie review The Bucket List [ Director: Rob Reiner, Writer: Justin Zakham. Released in the US: 11.01. 08. Edward Cole played by Jack ...
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Monday, July 21, 2008

Indians and English, Indian English!

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In its July 2008 issue, Reader’s Digest published an article which concerns an issue very close to my heart, and invited readers to write...
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Friday, July 11, 2008

Unaccustomed Earth

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Book review: Unaccustomed Earth , by Jhumpa Lahiri, Random House India 2008, Rs. 450 I have just finished reading this book, and thought it...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

The blog writer looks back

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Now that I have been blogging for two continuous years (and an enormous number of people, including lots of celebrities both in India and ab...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Values, prices, incomes...

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# A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing : Oscar Wilde. # A sentimentalist is one who knows the value...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

I wish I had resigned sooner.

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Orkut recently suggested I might wish to visit certain communities, including one called St. Xavier’s School, Durgapur . Out of a mild cur...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Global crises, websites of interest

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This post may not have any direct connection with the subjects on which I have been lately requested to write: I shall ask all those good pe...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Sports!

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Gosh. I am overwhelmed to receive so many nice and thoughtful suggestions so soon: here and via email. I guess I have bitten off more than I...
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Saturday, May 24, 2008

I'm back, with changes and requests.

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I took a week's break and went off the Net. Now I am back at the keyboard once more. Regular visitors will notice that I have at last go...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

American rebuttal to John Cleese!

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By the way, I am not sure whether John Cleese really wrote that 'open letter' or not: but let the post remain, because I enjoyed the...
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