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The US election campaign is in full swing and in just a few months on 8th November the die will be cast. There are 4 candidates, but only 2 matter. These are the Republican and Democratic party who have shaped the destiny of America ever since the...
The last week has been a traumatic period for the world. There have been at least 5 terror attacks and in one of the most reprehensible incidents an old 85-year-old French priest was killed with a knife by a Jihadist who claimed allegiance to the...
Every passing day makes solution to the ever burning Kashmir problem look more difficult. Nearly seventy years after independence all the three affected parties, namely, India, Pakistan and Kashmiris are grappling for a solution. Since the mid...
The dust has begun to settle and the stage show has commenced with the curtain going up. The battle lines are drawn and the candidates on the verge of bagging the nomination. The GOP is likely to nominate Donald Trump, never mind that old timers...
The American election is a 4-year affair. In addition by an amendment to the US Constitution, an incumbent is restricted to just 2 terms. This is wonderful as it acts as a check to unbridled power. This amendment was passed in the late forties...
The state of Pakistan was the dream of the poet Iqbal, who visualized a homeland for Muslims of the sub-continent. That's the reason he used the word "Pak" meaning "pure" in Urdu, as the name of the new nation. Pakistan had a tortuous birth as an...
A place where labourers work hard and build up beautiful dwellings for us. The view from my balcony enables me to observe the happenings in and around a building construction site and also the living pattern of these hard core workers residing...
Bose in Indian Psyche
Indians respect Bose a lot, but then let us also accept the fact that we are hero worshipers and look for heroes everywhere. One reason is that we have had very few victors who could be role models for Indians down the last...
One knows that it needs a mirror to show how one looks. Thus, what outside people feel about India and Kashmir in particular can best be gauged only by meeting and listening to the people living outside India. I have been singularly lucky of...
Communication is our greatest source of power, the most significant characteristic of mankind. Success of a manager depends more on his ability to communicate than any other skill. It is a process involving interchange of facts, view-points and...
The Bermuda Triangle has always been a topic of curiosity and research. The unsolved mysteries of Bermuda triangle has always been loved by the scientists, readers and the net surfers. The sudden disappearance of ships and planes without any trace...
The untimely death of Mr Munde in an car accident highlights the need for safety while traveling and the need to severely curb the rising traffic violations on our roads. It is reported that the highest number of deaths are taking place in the...
Just like one of the co-founders of PayPal, Max Levichin, born in Ukraine, and co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, born in Russia, Jan Koum is an immigrant. Jan Koum was born in a small village in Ukraine. It was a communist nation. He didn’t even...
With time the human body ages and withers away. But it’s a man’s words, thoughts and principles that could truly withstand the test of time and become immortal. Immortality doesn’t mean an eternal life. It means living in the hearts of the people...
Muthulakshmi Reddi
Government of India conferred Dr. Mrs. Muthulakshmi Reddi, the first Indian to be medical graduate, first ever member of a state assembly and first deputy speaker of any legislative assembly anywhere in the world, with Padama...
Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu with a heart full of love for people of India and she was not afraid to show it openly like a loving mother who felt pain if her child was in trouble. Sarojini Naidu started her public career to work for Indian...
Dr Varghese Kurien
Dr Varghese Kurien is the man behind the success of Operation Flood, the movement that helped treble the country's milk production, making itself-sufficient in the production of milk and milk products.
India is a land of...
It was in November 1989 that Sachin Tendulkar played his first Test Match against Pakistan and that was to launch him into an illustrious career. In 1991-92, the then Finance Minister Dr Manmohan Singh presented a revolutionary budget which was to...
Our freedom fighters
India became a free country in 1947 although it was only half the independence as we lost two big parts of motherland in the name of Pakistan. That is what we got after a long struggle to get our freedom from the...
Life is beautiful, wonderful. People with different nature, diversified choice originating creative ideas into valuable contribution forms part of life that we are living in. It is more like a play, where everyone is performing his part and leaving...
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