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Hi All I am moving to liberalcynic.wordpress.com If you're not redirected soon, click here Thanks Liberal PS: My name on wordpress is liberalcynic cause liberal wasn't available!

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How do u interpret wat eyes say? What about power of suggestion? How do you control for the answers we wanna see or hear? What psychological expts can we run secretly and when can we arrive at enough data to remove internal error? Terminal 3 JFK, a year and yet not enuf data. Somehow the head wants to trust and a normal head would, but this one has been so careful believing that trusting and

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Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal wants to give a higher weightage to 12th board marks in the IIT qualifiers. Specifically, he wants to raise the minimum 12th board score from 60% to 80-85% for a qualification to the IIT entrance exams. He says that it will reduce the influence of coaching classes, and focus the students on 12th boards.When did this man turn into the nut he seems to be today? First

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"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."Mark Twain Human beings are passionate; scientists more so than anyone else. That we take a few given facts and let our imaginations run wild is probably our best quality as far as science is concerned. For centuries, budding scientists have taken for

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Hi guysI have introduced myself to blogging from the iPhone. That's right. I will be sharing my idle chatter from any and all places where today's oxygen (read 3g) is available. CheersLiberal

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As Obama starts to deliver on what he has been promising ever since the primaries, there is a lot of talk between both wings of the electorate as to how the nation should proceed.The left wing is deafening in its bid for a public option in healthcare. They are divided into many groups, some of whom believe that a single-payer system is the answer to everything, while others believe that a hybrid

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The things we say whilst in a relationship but don't really mean"Yes, you were the first.""Yes, you are the last.""Trust me, they're big enough." (Actually this does work both ways!) (I am getting a FRIENDS flashback.)"Of course I noticed the new earrings.""She was just a crush.""You are right. I didn't know what I was thinking.""I never understood (insert random topic) until I discussed it with

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"Reverse racism!", cries the right, while the left screams, "About time!" The centrists are left to do the math. Sotomayor has good qualifications. She is a graduate of Princeton and Yale law. She does not have any skeletons in her closet (yet!), which leaves the right splitting hairs on her rulings. Hispanics used to occupy a sizable portion of some parts of the USA. This can be evidenced by

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"I like to punish myself L, I like to punish my body and keep pushing its limits." This was said to my uncle by his colleague when they were talking about exercising and trekking and stuff like that. When he had told me this sentence, I scoffed. I was a firm believer in "No pain...what's the catch?" philosophy. It had its effects. A growing kaboose, reducing stamina, and chronic fatigue, which

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I had written this some time ago...it seemed nice then...let's see how it plays out now.I don't know what has come over meA strange ephemeral happiness A feeling of satiation, coupled with Some anxietyIt shows me more of who I amShows me more of who I'm not Makes me realize my predilections On this path of self-discovery Shaken I feel with some turmoil Upset I am at something in the airYet there

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A long time ago, I had read somewhere that 'ethics' were a luxury of people whose basic needs were already met. Pretty cynical huh? I always thought of myself as a principled and ethical person, who would not bend rules just to satisfy some greed. Recently, I was decribed by someone as 'internally good'. (The same person, however also called me 'andar se kameena' many times. Some others have said

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Swimming was the most relaxing thing in her life. Even though she was a runner, and loved roller-blading, but there was nothing like gliding in water. Taking in the cool water while it swept over her made her feel like it cleansed her every pore. She was OCD clean, but the dirty water tended to make her feel pure. She always knew that river swimming was not a piece of cake, the currents were

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Honesty with the self is the hardest thing to achieve. People always say, “It is easy to lie to the whole world, but how can you lie to yourself?” We say this while each one of us is deluding ourselves from the fact that we all lie to ourselves; and pretty well too. I have a friend who breaks his diet whenever we go to Sardar pav bhaji (for non-Mumbaikars, it is a place in Tardeo, Mumbai where

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Ex-VP Dick Cheney has made a public statement supporting gay marriage. His statement, "I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish," clearly shows that he is not even on the fence on this issue. Oh dear! If only you had ever been in a position where you could pass a legislature

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The sunlight blazed into the room as Meera could not help waking up. After an entire week of lazing around and committing all possible abacharams her grandma would have frowned upon, her mom noticed that Meera seemed to be on the phone quite often, and not too cheerful. Even her visit to her engineering college seemed to get her down. She always had an inkling that her daughter was in a

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(Opening Caveat: This post is not related to Meera's woe. I am working on the concluding part right now. I will post that soon.)I hate moving. I can completely relate to people stuck in dead-end apartments simply because they aren't able to summon up the energy and the drive to move into another place.Here I was in the Nolita area of downtown Manhattan helping my cousin move from an apartment

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May 2008 "Thank you for flying Emirates Airlines. Please wait for exit instructions from the cabin crew." The voice sounded young, though Meera knew better. Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport was here at last. She was going to meet her family after nine months. She could picture their excited faces in her head. Why she was not excited, she could not tell. She longed to see her little

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September 2003Meera sighed at the sight of the building. It was more dilapidated than she had imagined the ruined palaces of the Ottoman Empire to have been. She had to strain to hear the rickshaw driver. This surprised her, for she had never known a man to speak with such a soft voice. She paid him Rs. 100 and expected him to make any excuse possible to avoid giving her the change of Rs. 7.50,

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For the uninitiated, a clinical trial is pretty much a study of a new drug or formulation in humans. Before this, the drug/medication has been tested in animals which progressively go up the evolutionary scale to make sure that our principle has some modicum of proof. These trials usually have three phases which when complete and analyzed lead to a decision as to whether this medication does what

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There are desserts and there are other desserts. Some are nice, but most are heavy. To me, a dessert should be heavy. I must regret having learned to eat after eating the dessert. There is no other way to enjoy it. Here, I am talking about a muffin.I don't know why I love it so much. Probably because of the wonderful exterior, probably because of the moist goodness locked inside that only the

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A dear friend of mine once described a concept called 'patel shots'. When I asked him to elaborate, he said that they were postcard-type photos taken by tourists near all the garden variety tourist spots around a popular city. This guy loved all the nuances of NYC that I could show him, but make no mistake, he could give the patels a run for their money (which is bucketloads, by the way!) in the

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"Must we wait for our light to turn green completely? Why can't you just cross when there are no cars around?""That's just the way I do it. You can go ahead, just wait for me on the other side."Many street crossings passed. Neither one changed…well, one was forced to… "Stop, don't do that. Can't you wait till we reach the other side to kiss me?""What's the fun in that?"On a park bench, when other

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Bill Maher (of Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO) asked an important question to his panel recently. He asked that how is the current Obama plan to buy toxic assets (also called the 'cash for trash' strategy) better than Bush's? He is doing the same thing that Bush was doing, and somehow he is being given a clean chit no matter what.Right now we are bailing out companies, some of whom do not deserve

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Nick Kristof is a very passionate man. His Op-Eds for the gray lady are from the heart and head in a nice combination. He writes a lot about the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This man has now imposed further sanctions on aid given to the hurt

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We are at a strange crossroads now. It is no secret, nor is it up for debate that the US economy impacts that of almost every country except the ones which are protectionist and completely government controlled. Even a country like China, whose iron curtain policies partially insulate them from the volatility of the western economies, is impacted in that there is no more purchasing power for the

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Let me begin with a confession. I have horrible fashion sense. Now I know many guys out there are afflicted by this malady, but I'm beyond help. I once wore a red colored six pocket pant for over a year (not continuously though!) that would put Govinda's fashion designer to shame.I have always relied on my mother's & sister's help (did I say help? I meant total dominion) in this department. Cut

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"So we were just having coffee…""Wait a second, you said you were in the lab all afternoon and evening yesterday, so this coffee…?""I knew you would not miss that; it was over breakfast!""Alright dude! I knew you would eventually reach the finish line!""Wo to theek hai, but you won't believe what she said…""You mean when you told her that the only reason you were going out with her was because

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The day a country becomes truly literate is when it understands the term "None of your business". The Delhi high court has stayed an FIR against a married couple caught in a compromising position saying, "How can an expression of love by a married couple by stealing a kiss in public be construed as obscenity?" I must be drunk or wasted or something else…for I seem to want to hold on to the slowly

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As I was scanning old email in my inbox (I know…it sounds like I don't have much to do, but it is a nice pastime), I noticed an email I wrote to some student in SUNY Buffalo asking him about my chances of getting into his school (with funding). Doe-eyed and optimistic, I had written an email in my finest English (as much as possible while trying to appear colloquial) wherein I had told him about

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As I was gumming down a bowl of soup that some diet-friendly misanthropic nihilist might have invented, I glanced around the cafeteria to see if there were any of my friends or pretty girls nearby (Both groups are surprisingly not mutually exclusive!) There was this Latin-American female who monopolized my attention for a whole minute, after which she started walking, leaving me with her image

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It was colder than a witch's t$t that day. All day, it had been pretty cold. Full body cover and head gear were a must, and the biting cold winds made you swear off every ungodly thing you might have done in this sorry little life. Somehow I reached Lincoln Plaza cinemas on 62nd and Broadway by 7:30pm.My cousin was due to meet me there with a buddy of his. I called him up only to learn that he is

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"Hey man...is it possible for you to come over in an hour?""Ya sure...what's up?""Aa jana phir batata hoon.""Okay, see you in an hour.""Accha sun, quarter leke aana.""Sure...Royal Stag?""Abbe kanjoos, abhi to note chaapne laga hai...bring JD at least!"Forty five minutes later..."Early as usual!""Well, quarter ghar mein padi thi...and traffic was low...""So, you came via Panch Pakhadi?""Yeah, but

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Blogging is more than a pastime. It happens to be a responsibility. Once the blog actually gets a decent audience, it becomes all the more important for the blogger to use it well. In the old days one had to be really good at writing to be heard simply because even the lowliest college newsletter had an editing panel that filtered off the complete crap that was so bad that the week's recipies

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After much ballyhoo and brouhaha that would take pages of this blog to fill, I reached Sahar airport (Yes, I refuse to call it Chatrapati Shivaji, get over it). One night of tossing and turning and a morn beset by jet lag slowly morphed into my sister dragging me to the latest SRK movie, "Rab ne bana di jodi." It came highly recommended by her friends, which should have been my first warning,

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Ah! The post exam relief is sublime…the end of responsibilities, no need to feel guilty about reading The Kite Runner when you are supposed to be reading Process Analytical Technology, no need to feel like you are wasting time listening to music when you should be captivated by Quality by Design and such like. It is a moment of freedom, where you realize that you are truly done with your subject

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Nothing quite salutes the ego than blogging. Here is an idea where one can take one's deep thoughts (regardless of their value) and immortalize them in cyberspace. It does not matter whether your works are of publishable quality or simply not worth the chips that store them as memory. You have written a piece and so shall it be, forever. Then comes the idea of posting links on facebook and orkut

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The Supreme Court of India has recently granted custody of a minor boy to his teacher mother of humble means. The father in this case, a Mr. Gaurav Nagpal kidnapped his son after the divorce, and was holding on to him against the rule of law. In this case, the ruling was absolutely right. Clearly, the father has displayed a lack of moral fibre with his acts. Let me say on the record that I

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"A grande latte please, no cinnamon…""Boy! You've not changed a bit I see…""Hey, if old habits are allowed to die hard, I think coffee preferences deserve immortality""Double cappuccino, just a hint of cinnamon, less foam…""Wow…living on the wild side, I've never seen you order cinnamon…speaking of old spices I hate, there's Sam…""Sam…surely you mean Sameer, don't tell me he has Americanized his

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Yes, we are not silent, but loudWe are obnoxiously rich and proudWe are shameless flaunting our prosperityNot in richness and baubles, but integrity You came through our shores,We did not stop you thenFor there are many who come soWe'd rather not prejudge them You betrayed our trust, transgressed our boundariesHurt, maimed and yes…killed our brothersWe know not what you want, what you desireWe

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Here is a list of weird things that happen or have happened in my life, which might overlap with some of the events in your lives too.I went to the restroom in the college library that day to wash my hands and face as I was working tirelessly on this term paper (which means I was watching youtube and chatting while on invisible mode). I was scrupulously washing my hands and was done drying them

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To be very clear on this issue, I have not been tagged by anyone to write about my quirks. Seeing as everyone in the blogosphere is writing about these, and that I have some really weird quirks of my own, I decided to write about them.So here goes…Good MorningsMornings can be of two kinds for me, good and bad. Let me stop you right at the beginning if you're gonna say that that happens to

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People! Stop holding doors for other people! Even in crowded bustling New York City; it is insane how you manage to pump chivalry and politeness into such crammed workdays. It is one thing for you to expect me to hold the door open when you are right behind me, but if you're far away, you're on your own. One wonders what the limit is, beyond which the intensity of chivalry wanes. I like the 5-

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As a naïve schoolboy often doused & immersed in polar concepts like good and evil, black and white, day and night, I was used to viewing things in extremes. It is, of course, an easier way to teach people at the developmental stage, to show every concept or idea in terms of its upper and lower limits. Some would argue that some issues need to be examined at the extremes of their ambits in order

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This is a subject that we all pretend to be very concerned about. Pretend to ourselves that is, I would never accuse my audience of pretending outwards!The other day I was standing with a lady friend discussing casually various things including the weather and the vagaries of our professors when a clearly destitute person came up to us and asked us whether we could help him out to get a meal: I

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He wiped his brow and frowned. This was going to be a long climb. His muscles had started to ache. This was more due to inaction than actual strain. Working whole days and some nights punching on a keyboard wiped his body by the end of his week. The weekends, when not working, were filled with mental fatigue and angry snappy remarks at good natured advice to slow things down. He looked up and

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William Kristol has written an Op-Ed in the gray lady, which has, at best, betrayed his conservative dogma, and at worst, brought the newspaper of record to disrepute. Based on a telephonic interview of Sarah Palin, this piece, penned with an adulation quite resembling feverish worship, goes on to cover various softball questions lobbed sweetly at her by this articulate, posturing, conservative

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I had written this some time ago...it seemed nice then...let's see how it plays out now.I don't know what has come over meA strange ephemeral happinessA feeling of satiation, coupled withSome anxietyIt shows me more of who I amShows me more of who I'm notMakes me realize my predilectionsOn this path of self-discoveryShaken I feel with some turmoilUpset I am at something in the airYet there is a

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"I just love writing...I like the idea of sharpening my pencil, and using an eraser!" She pushed her hair behind her ears as she said that.It was 1993. I was sitting in this auto-rickshaw on its way from school to my home. The girl was not particularly attractive, and she had started the conversation; I was just filling in the gaps to be polite.I don't know why I remembered it today. Probably

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He looked at her again and sighed. How he longed to look at her without having to pretend to look elsewhere! She rearranged her dupatta and smiled."So, are you coming?", the annoying sidekick asked. Every pretty girl has a sidekick - an average looking, boring and sorta unintelligent one hanging around. Maybe it was for sheer contrast, to make the pretty one more desirable, he thought.He looked

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Charles Gibson interviewed Sarah Palin in her hometown in Wasilla, Alaska in a quasi-journalistic way. He asked her tough questions alright, but not enough follow up ones. There wasn't the journalistic bite as we would have seen from Helen Thomas, or our very own Karan Thapar or Prabhu Chawla.Without taking the spotlight away from the huge liberties against logic this woman takes, I would like to

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Let me clarify my position on the God issue. I am an agnostic leaning towards atheism. My childhood has been plagued with screaming fits quite akin to the child in Omen, as my parents asked me to accompany them to the temple. I went through the poonal procedure as a good tam bram, all the while lamenting that there would have been a much better use for the money than spending it on a

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Having a conversation with someone that neither of you wanna have but are continuing for the sake of politenessAnyone who knows more than you is a bookworm, and anyone who knows less than you is a foolYou have a conversation with a pretty girl for over ten minutes before you discover the spinach stuck to your teethAs my friend 'buddy' says…your bladder will overfill except when you need a urine

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-50412574145703678682008-09-06T14:01:00.002-04:002008-11-29T12:51:41.475-05:00

He could not help but smile. Eight years of marriage had not worn out her body even a bit. She was as beautiful and heavenly as she was on the day he saw her. Lying on the bed in her favorite fetal position, sleeping peacefully, she looked like the angel who could deliver him from the depths of hell. He stared at her as he always did. Everything in the world could be put on hold for the moments

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-1034407456050446252008-09-06T01:19:00.001-04:002008-09-06T01:19:06.705-04:00

I feel like a parent now; a parent on the day of academic results. As if my first born has brought me a straight-A report card, while the spoilt, self-indulgent other child brought me yet another note to meet the teacher. I feel like saying, "Why can't you be more like him?" Barack Obama chose a six-term senator to be his running mate, a person who has an actual plan for Iraq, a plan which seems

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Barack Obama has done it. The dream ticket of Hillabarack was always going to be just what it looked like: a dream. John Edwards was a good whitening of the ticket for Obama, but he would not do much to make up for Obama's lack of experience.Choosing the six-term US senator Joe Biden will not only bolster the experience factor, it is the wisest choice because Joe Biden had the right idea about

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"Speech silvern but silence golden" I had no use for that phrase all through my life. I liked to talk and I loved to listen. I always thought that speaking is an amazing talent that we have and using it helps us interact effectively. Ergo, I loved to talk and liked people who talked a lot.But something changes when I moved to the US for graduate school. There was a huge change. Suddenly I started

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To my readers:I don't know why this is happening. I seem to have been blocked right now, what with my laptop completely bailing out on me. Now that I have got a new one, I am not yet ready to start writing. So this hiatus! When the urge to write seizes me again, which I'm sure it will, I will be back to enthrall, question, annoy and entertain. Till then, take care everyone.

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To set the record straight, I am all for a woman's right to choose. The right and the power to abort a fetus must reasonably rest with the woman who has to nurture it and later, raise the baby. Having said that, I do understand the rules which do not allow abortion after a certain time period of pregnancy unless, continuing the pregnancy would harm the mother-to-be. The Niketa Mehta case where a

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-32685920544072663102008-07-28T11:34:00.002-04:002008-07-28T14:14:59.585-04:00

This post is merely my presentation of an article in The Times of India, 25th Aug 2001 by a Ms. Vandana Parthasarthy.It is dedicated to blue-blooded tam-brahms everywhere! "You graduated in literature, right?" asked my young cousin. "No, in economics." I hastily clarified. "Economics honours," I added for good measure. The question coming from anyone else would have been innocuous, but from my

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Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg want India and China to quit smoking. No kidding...forget the all-consuming war in Iraq, the deficit America is suffering from, the money they owe to most countries, the erosion of international goodwill for America, the increasingly elusive universal health care etc.; two of the USA's most influential men feel that the levels of smoking and other tobacco

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Sometimes I have the nastiest habit of reading too much into things. On one of my "extremely frustrated" days, I went to Manhattan armed with my Nikon Coolpix S550 and decided to just walk around and look around. The thing is, I walk for hours at a stretch. Then I stop at some quiet coffee shop and have a grande whilst writing something, and then off I go again. If I see something worth

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The primary argument of any person supporting creationism is that the entire world could not have evolved by chance, or that the principle governing the functioning of living beings cannot be randomness or chance. They have a point. What they ignore is that there is a pattern which determines what has happened and what will happen. The principle is not chance, but is randomness. It is not the

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-70944838598716764972008-07-06T23:49:00.001-04:002008-07-06T23:49:54.308-04:00

Tears were rolling down her eyes. He clasped her hands with one hand, and used the other to wipe her swollen cheeks. Even when she was so patently distraught, he could not help noticing the glistening tears on her perfect eyelashes. No matter what her mood, the eyelashes always seemed happy. The eyes always twinkled. It was inexplicable.He was lost in her poetic beauty while she continued talking

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-8863261009575202272008-07-06T00:08:00.001-04:002008-07-06T00:08:40.929-04:00

The bees are disappearing. Einstein had plainly said, "If the bee were to disappear, mankind would have only four years of existence." Colony collapse: that's what it's being called.Entomophily is pollination by insects. Personally, I would give bee-pollination a separate status, maybe Apiphily? Anyway, bees seem to be chief pollinators for many of the plants in today's existence. These bees,

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-32206450736885721052008-07-01T22:14:00.002-04:002008-07-01T22:18:03.257-04:00

I opened the door and went inWith a guilt inexplicable withinTo get something I knew I wantedBy giving in to temptations undaunted The old lady saw me and smiledShe knew what I had come forShe knew how much I resisted comingAnd yet she knew I would come There was finality in her glanceAs if she knew I had no chanceOf limiting myself, of tethering myselfOr even regulating pleasuring myself She

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We read horoscopes early in the morning newspaper, and proceed on our days trying to match the horoscope with our choices, and then read them again at night, and then marvel at the accuracy of said horoscope.We check our email to see stupid forwards that we hate anyway but forward them anyway.We speak loudly to people having hearing-aids.We speak extra loudly to blind people.When we are walking

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-56838727297090472472008-07-01T13:25:00.001-04:002008-07-01T13:25:16.494-04:00

Thunderstorms, Dunkin Donuts, and noisy people lead to only one thing - Thought escapism: the method by which we imagine new mundane things just to escape the mundaneness of everyday life. On one of these expeditions, I was geekily thinking about weeks and months. What if every month had exactly four weeks? Just like February in a non-leap year? I mean, the extra days would pile up. We have four

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-28645029715418754952008-06-29T23:36:00.002-04:002008-06-29T23:39:47.968-04:00

Is it just me, or is the world going upside down? The National Commission for Women (NCW) has asked that maintenance be given to a woman who is deserted by her live-in partner. They are asking for an amendment to the Section 125 of our Criminal Procedure Code, which defines 'wife'. They want the definition to include women in long-term live-in relationships. Hence, upon termination of such

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I walked through the roadAnd not over it as you might thinkThe dust rose as it always doesAnd yet my eyes did not blinkAll I could see was distanceAnd more and more of it aheadFor life is supposed to have twists and turnsIn every road I fear to treadThe sides of the roads are a mysteryThe sights and landmarks are so blurryWill an image ever crystallize?It never will, I do realizeI am born to be a

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-45112588533729583082008-06-20T01:34:00.001-04:002008-06-20T09:03:52.620-04:00

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"And then what happened?” he asked. He had an exasperating habit of eating during these sessions. The sandwiches he ate were always the same. Peanut butter and strawberry jelly: hardly a diet of a mature person."Well, I went up to her and introduced myself. I got the feeling she liked what she saw and I was hoping things would go forward." Sam was amazed at his own honesty. This was a straight

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I am a Mumbaikar. Through and through. So heat and humidity, pollution and noise..bring it on. Crowds are most welcome. I guess with India progressing at such a demonic rate, crowds, noise and other forms of pollution are a given in most cities. There is something about Mumbai, though. Be it the roadside food vendors, or the oft complained about but most adored train service, this city is so

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-14854486768420605892008-05-17T22:56:00.003-04:002008-06-07T18:50:10.164-04:00

Analogy: A similarity between like features of two things based on which a comparison can be made.It happens to be a clever way of introducing new ideas, or rehashed versions of old ones. An analogy helps people relate to arcane, outlandish ideas, and in many cases, bring a smile to peoples' faces. There is something indescribable about the sublime intermingling of ideas which blend with an

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Infinite boredomEven the air has stopped movingThere is no sign of life anymoreTime shows no propensity to passIt makes you wanna end it allExcept even that amount of activity is abhorredThoughts decay in dull headsSounds sights and smellsMean nothing to anyoneMeaningless words oft repeatedAkin to a cerebral power drillBoredom spawns boredomUnavoidable chain reactions ofInactive body and

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It is often the choices we makeAnd not our abilities, whichDefine who we truly areSo said a great wizardWhile he meant it in a context of good vs evil, altruism vs selfishness, and in a realm of virtue over power, even he had not a measure of the magnitude of what he had said. To consider the other parts, when one makes a choice, completely unhindered by peer pressure, familial pressure and

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-83199648055057407992008-04-18T10:48:00.008-04:002008-06-07T18:57:35.398-04:00

Here is the time for me to accept a mistake, and cede a little. I have said formerly that without a doubt, Barack Obama is going to be the Democratic nominee. I am having some doubts about this now. Not because I am convinced that he is not leader material. It is not a result of the "bitter" remarks. It is the result of the pseudo-republican fake outrage machine, (known simply as Hillary Clinton.

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Morality is a tricky concept. There are a certain number of rules which were framed by people existing well before us. These rules are adapted by contemporary authorities. All is fair and well within the bounds of such rules.Somehow we paint a horrible picture of those who transgress those limits that were prescribed by the purveyors of morality. It is probably not such a bad thing.There are and

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Cut to a well lit room...rows and rows young adults perched on desks. There are a few people monitoring them and making sure there is no foul play. No, it is not National Sudoku Championship. It is the main entrance test to the hallowed portals of technical education, running amok, pot-smoking, vodka guzzling, cruise through coursework as a result of extremely above-average intelligence, or

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Most of you who bothered to look at my blog might wonder as to what kind of deviantly possessed demented brain could come up with this shit...yet some stuff I write may make you nod...some others make you roll your eyes...well...writing is amazingly as spontaneous as farting.Now many will cringe and ask me why I had to demean a noble act by lumping it with an objectionable one. The truth is

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Many guys fall in love. They fall in love all the time, many times and fall out too. In most cases, it starts with that moment. The moment when he sees her for the first time. Most relationships start with infatuation, a physical attraction. People confuse that with sexual desires, but the truth is it is not really sexual. It is sublime in that the world starts fading away when he sees her. She

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You feel bad because you are averageI say you are the most gifted, forLife is built for you, o common manAnd you are tailor-made for this worldYour ambitions are lower, ditto expectationsYour disappointments run lowerThere is no fear of acceptance, as,Society craves affiliation with its ownYou fit in well, I don't, I amHated yet cannot change myselfCynicism and loneliness are myCrutches in this

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I wish for a day whenthe masks will be shedthe faces we proudly ownWill truly be readThere is nothing that weMust fear to say or doBut what we truly feelWhy must we skewI can never get overThe fear of disagreementOf rejection and rebukeSo I hesitate to declareWhat I feel or thinkBut little do I knowWhere you stand to lookI know in depths of my heartThat you fear the sameWhile you are brazenly

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When one pictures a writer writing, one thinks of a closed room. There is a small window which lets in sunlight, moonlight, cold breeze or rain as per nature's proclivities. A rickety chair...okay maybe a proper chair beside a simple table with sheafs of papers flying about obscuring the writer's face would adorn the room completed by a water jug and some food lying around.The writer is imagined

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-66637366777705328482008-02-16T17:04:00.001-05:002008-06-07T19:16:29.994-04:00

The adversarial legal process is a time-tested one. The idea of a public prosecutor whose only job is to do everything within the bounds of the law to convict the accused is as good as that of a defense lawyer who must everything he can to prevent that very action. One may think this to be a waste of valuable time and resources pitting smart people against each other, but the truth eventually

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A different LanguageEver get the feelingThat everyone around youIs speaking a tongueThat only you don't getIt haunts me these daysI feel seriously ineptWhen I hear all around meKnowing so much about knowledgeIf it was my IQ deficiencyI would have accepted itBut it is a deep cluelessnessThat I can't swallowI always thought I wasCapable and yet well above averageFeelings of cluelessnessTaunt me to

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-14353533169427384802008-02-05T09:20:00.001-05:002008-06-07T19:21:39.144-04:00

Do you really dare, Mr Raj Thakeray, to stand in front of the trains which come from North India?Why are you so stupid as to create a feeling of national animosity towards Maharashtra? Aren't you afraid Maharashtra will be asked to leave India?We can create another Mumbai anywhere else without your impeding self!Economist S.D. Naik said that as of 2006, Maharashtra has a debt of Rs 1.15 lakh

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The recent drubbing of Samajwadi party workers along with innocent taxi drivers and hawkers by gundas belonging to the Maharashtra Navanirman Sena led by the hero Raj Thakeray has reminded us just how far behind the rest of the world India really is.The journalist from Times Now asked Shishir Shinde, the spokesperson of MNS as to why this was done etc etc...(Here I would like to add a word of

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I don't know if anyone else feels it or not. To me the Democratic Primaries are turning slowly from completely unpredictable to more and more one-sided. With the inevitable pull-out of Sen. John Edwards from the race, it is becoming more and more clear that Barack Obama is going to be the Democratic nominee to the most powerful office in the world.Anyone who read Paul Krugman's article in the New

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Sameer looked around and smiled. It was a good turnout. This was one of the moments when one took stock of the people one has accumulated and treats it as a personal accomplishment. He looked at Ravi. Yes, Ravi's arrival was a surprise. Ravi was always his arch rival and his perhaps most accomplished critic. There was great mutual respect between them, but Sameer could not help feeling that there

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Yet another Indian student was found murdered in the US in what looks like another hate crime. This time it was Abhijit Mahato in Duke University, NC who was found shot in the head. Another free spirit was silenced and the Indian dream of making it in the US after doing getting a graduate degree was tainted with blood.Cue to the incident where two Indian students at Louisiana State University

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-66276352332454796612008-01-16T21:38:00.000-05:002008-01-17T13:38:52.983-05:00

There are 6.5 billion people in this world. The world is run by the top 1%. That makes it about 65 million. That's a huge number. Mensa, the international high IQ site accepts people in it if their intelligence ranks in the top 2%. Not all these people are contributing to the success in this world.There are some who are gifted with above-average intelligence but also cursed with complete lack of

Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-38004962875535283082008-01-13T11:26:00.000-05:002008-01-17T15:25:12.678-05:00

In a press conference, Ricky Ponting was asked about the catch which he told the umpire was clean. Firstly, conflict of interest is one of the most important and well-guarded issues today. Cricket used to be a gentleman's game. Now, with the amount of money and interest riding on whether that catch was clean or not, asking a person (who has a conflict of interest) as to the verity of the catch is

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The Harbhajan Singh case is a classic case of "He said, she said." Maybe I'm way off, but ties go to the defendant in a civilized society which the ICC seems to be. There were three people involved in the situation: Bhajji, Symonds and Sachin. Symonds accused Bhajji of a racial slur against him, which Bhajji denies. (something he need not do; he can keep his mouth shut and ask that Symonds build

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I need some time I need some time, That is all I ask for Some time to breathe Some time to relax Some time without competition Some time without interaction Some time without embarrassment Some time to fold I need to enter my shell For some part of my life I need not to be bothered I need not to be tethered Some time without judgment Some time without relent To life’s

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