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Leave the Kids Alone!!!!
2007-12-31 13:01:00
Its been some time that i have been moved by a Hindi Movie. But "Taare Zameen Par" exactly did the same. It tells the story of Ishaan Awasthi, a nine-year-old boy who suffers from undetected dyslexia The film potrays beautifully Ishaan's frustration of his disability to do things which a normal kid would have done and his lone struggle against the world (people around him). This movie is the directorial debut of Aamir Khan and he does justice to the story in true Aamir style.Coming to the film - the direction has been exceptional. We have seen many Hindi movies (and many Indian Movies) where child artists looks quite horrible, Not in this movie. This is indeed a child's movie, Aamir Khan (who is one hindi superstar) come toward the interval. Actually he is just having a supporting role in this movie, so do all the grown ups. The hero of the story Ishaan Awasthi ( quite wonderfully potrayed by Darsheel Safary) is a easy go kid, who reminds all of us (atleast myself) of our childhoo...
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Weapons Of Mass Destruction
2007-08-09 08:50:00
At 11:10 am on Tuesday, April 20 1999, Eric David Harris (18) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (17) arrived at their school ? Columbine High School. Harris parked in the junior student parking lot and Klebold in the senior student parking lot at spaces not assigned to them. From then they went in a shooting spree across the campus ? terrorizing and killing 15 and injuring another 24 before committing suicide. The amount of weapons and ammunition these two teens carried would have put Arnold?s Terminator to shame. They had Intratec TEC-DC9, Hi-Point 995 Carbine, Savage 67H pump-action shotgun, Stevens 311D double barreled sawed-off shotgun and bombs made with carbon dioxide canisters, galvanized pipe, and metal propane bottles. Their initial plan was to detonate bombs in cafeteria and shoot at those kids who would be fleeing once the bombs went off. Their initial plans were changed once the bombs didn?t go off. Then they ran shooting all those who came infront of them. A detailed descripti...
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Sanjay Dutt and Us
2007-08-01 08:04:00
As expected the sentencing of Sanjay Dutt has evoked a wide variety of response from all over India across all the community. There is a wave of sympathy for the actors fate, which is been contributed by the success of his movies(like Munnabhai). There is a huge section of media and celebrities who are drumming up that he has been given a raw deal by the Judge. There is accusation from one particular section that he (the Judge)is trying to enter the history books (Now thats a revelation - If by convicting a celebrity a person can make his mark in history, then damn that history).Against this backdrop I would like to congratulate the Judge(Special Judge P.D. Kode) for a job well done. During delivering the verdict he never tried to hide the fact that he was a fan of Dutt and given enough encouragement to the convict. He never allowed his personal admiration for the convict come in between his duty and he has done a wonderful Job.The celebrity circle and the useless Indian media is dr...

Some Photographs that changed the World
2007-07-26 07:58:00
Anne Frank 1941 Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. For many throughout the world, one teenage girl gave them a story and a face. She was Anne Frank, the adolescent who, according to her diary, retained her hope and humanity as she hid with her family in an Amsterdam attic. In 1944 the Nazis, acting on a tip, arrested the Franks; Anne and her sister died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen only a month before the camp was liberated. The world came to know her through her words and through this ordinary portrait of a girl of 14. She stares with big eyes, wearing an enigmatic expression, gazing at a future that the viewer knows will never come. Biafra 1969 When the Igbos of eastern Nigeria declared themselves independent in 1967, Nigeria blockaded their fledgling country-Biafra. In three years of war, more than one million people died, mainly of hunger. In famine, children who lack protein often get the disease kwashiorkor, which causes their muscles to waste away and their bellies to p...
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Celebrating The Life Of Oskar Shindler
2007-05-04 12:00:00
Celebrate The Life Of Oskar Shin dler Let me take the opportunity to wish this real human being a ?Very belated happy Birthday?. Oskar Schindler was born on 28 April 1908 in Zwittau, then part of Moravia, Austria-Hungary (Zwittau is now known as Svitavy in the modern Czech Republic). Like many in his times, Schindler was an opportunistic businessman ? one who sought to profit from the German Invasion of Poland. Oskar Schindler arrives in Krakow as an unsuccessful businessman and was there to get benefited from the cheap Jew labor to do his business. Like many of us our entire knowledge of Oskar Schindler comes from the movie ?Schindler?s List? and the book ?Schindler?s Ark? by Thomas Keneally. The life of Schindler has so much relevance in today?s multi polar world. He was no Gandhi or Mandela, nor did him resembled Christ or Buddha. Rather, he was a deeply flawed man. He was a Nazi and a war profiteer. A compulsive womaniser, he was frequently disloyal to his wife. After the ...
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Justice For Manjunath and Future of India
2007-03-27 07:07:00
In a landmark judgment, the Lakhimpur Kheri Sessions Court on Monday awarded death sentence to Pawan Kumar, alias Monu Mittal, in the Manjunath Shanmugham murder case. The seven others have been sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy to murder. On Friday, District and Sessions Judge S M A Abidi had pronounced the eight accused as guilty under different sections of the IPC. Manjunath was working as a sales officer with the India n Oil Corporation when he was shot dead in November 19, 2005. The Indian oil corporation's sales manager had challenged Mittal about the fuel adulteration at his pump and was about to fine him. That was when Mittal and his colleagues shot Manjunath and then hid his body."Just ice has been delivered. This is what we had hoped for," said I B Singh, Lawyer, Manjunath Shanmugam Trust.Manjunath was murdered on 19 of November, 2005 for sticking to his principles. His shock death send cripples across the country. The entire IIML alumni stood up to fight for hi...
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Budget 2007 - My Stupid View
2007-03-07 20:03:07
How good was the Budget -2007 presented yesterday by Mr. P Chidambaram, this was the question that was running all over the place yesterday. The final verdict came down to a great Thumbs Down to the Finance Minister. The main reason for these thumbs down from the middle class is the fact that there was no tax exemption method added. The media is more concerned with the lack of Reforms and the slight increase in Taxation on the BPO and IT industry.This puts in effect the core question about Budget ? Any budget which does not decrease my Tax Burden is a bad budget? The majority answer seems to be a rousing YES to this question. I have some conversation (maybe you can call it as debates) with my friends about this. In my opinion any Budget which does not drastically increase my Tax Burden is a ?Good Average Budget?. My friends and majority of the public in India seems to disagree strongly with this. One of the points raised against paying the taxes is the lack of facility provided by t...
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Polar Bear and Climate Change
2007-03-07 20:03:07
Many organization and many individuals have been in the forefront of many battles won and lost in the history. But not in our so called illustrious history an animal has been in the forefront of a struggle. A struggle in which it is unknowingly dragged into, A struggle that will define its existence. The photo provided below taken by Dan Crosbie have sent cripples all over the world.The picture looks like a Mother and cub resting in the top of a ice sculpture done by waves have sent cripples all over the world. Let me remind you that Polar Bear are extremely decent swimmers. But yet they may be in sight of being endangered. What makes them so attractive is the their cute and innocent face, which make them so lovable compared to their bear brothers.Anything that is cute and innocent we humans have more affection to it. The traditional threats to the polar bear - hunting, toxic waste, offshore drilling - have been overshadowed by a new one: the ice around them is melting, and we are t...
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SomeOne's Watching Me
2007-02-23 13:57:02
Internet - the only revolution of this modern world has pioneered many innovation s and ideas. It has brought out the hidden talent of many out in this world. many innovative ideas were unrevealed through the medium of this. Many barriers it has crossed, many yet to be crossed. Its being used by everyone from babies to elderly, from terrorist to soldiers from every one in every part of this world. Like some one said "Internet is Cause and Cure of Today's Problems". I have found these video in YouTube. Its done by some one called as ichannel. Believe me this concept is great. Just put yourself in the place of the hero of story, you can find the fun in the whole thing....I am putting the first two episodes here, rest you can find in Youtube
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Chemicals used in bombs in Iraq
2007-02-22 19:56:02
At least five people were killed and 140 wounded when a lorry laden with chlorine exploded in Baghdad on Tuesday [AFP].The use of chlorine combined with vehicle bombs may represent a new tactic used by bombers against Iraq i civilians, officials there have said.A lorry bomb, which blew up on Wednesday in Baghdad, was the third in the past month to use chlorine, a gas that burns the skin and can be fatal if inhaled directly, officials said.Wednesday's bomb killed at least two people and wounded 32 others.Many of the injured coughed and wheezed as they were taken to hospitals, officials told reporters, symptoms which indicated the use of chemicals. Iraqi and US officials said the use of chlorine seemed intended to raise the level of fear and havoc in Iraq, at a time when the United States and Iraq are implementing a new security plan for Baghdad.Lt Col Christopher Garver, A US military spokesman, said: "The tactic illustrates the fluid nature of insurgent planning, and the tendency t...
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NDTV?s Fake Face
2007-02-22 07:55:01
Some weeks before there were coverage on NDTV about the hungry of this country. It was a response to the Government?s announcement of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS). I have to admit that it was one of the most heart warming programs which came on TV for some time. There were pathetic faces of children of this country who never had the luxury of having a proper meal. They found most of these children as really malnutrition. But two days before there was one more story which made sure to me that all those emotions shown by NDTV was really fake. The news was about Sonia Gandhi asking the government to study the impact of the Wall mart?s entry in to the Indian Market. It really was a political ploy to capture the attention of the voters. But whatever it is there was no explanation of the attitude shown by NDTV reporters reporting these stories. There was real contempt shown toward the story. They were trying to depict the attempt as a bastardly act. It was not such an ac...
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Nuclear Proliferation And The World
2007-02-22 07:55:01
The latest hot topic of debate in world affairs for the last one month has been "Iran and Its Nuclear Energy Program" . There are all kind of debates going on the effect of Nuclear Proliferation and its effects in World Peace. let me introduce my fellow readers to what exactly Nuclear Proliferation means:Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons production technology and knowledge to nations that do not already have such capabilities. It has been opposed by many nations with and without nuclear weapons, who fear that more countries with nuclear weapons may increase the possibility of nuclear warfare, de-stabilize international or regional relations, or infringe upon the national sovereignty of individual nation-states.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been the primary international anti-proliferation organization since it was established in 1957 by the United Nations. It operates a safeguards system as specified under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...
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I.T. AND INDIA - Amartya Sen
2007-02-22 07:55:01
The following is the Keynote Address at the NASSCOM 2007 India Leadership Forum in Mumbai on 7 February 2007 by Dr. Amar tya Sen(Nobel prize winner for economics) Some admirations come from near, others from very far. My respect and reverence for the IT industry in general and the extraordinarily dynamic and triumphant Indian IT industry in particular have come, by necessity, from some distance, since I am a dabbler in things far away from IT services and software. When the invitation came to attend this year's NASSCOM meeting and the leadership forum, I thought that this either indicated some mixing up of my identity ("wake up, wake up," I wanted to say, "I teach non-IT subjects at a university!"), or alternatively, it reflected generous interest of NASSCOM leaders to reach out (or as my students say, "hang out") beyond their principality. Of the two possibilities, identity confusion is the more exciting. My late friend Isaiah Berlin, the philosopher, recounted to me his ...
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The New Upper Middle Class Indian Judges
2007-02-22 07:55:01
The latest series of judgment by the India n Supreme Court Judge s points to the exact status of affairs of the country. Most of there judgments in the recent times have been anti poor. Lets take about the case of Narmada Bachao Andolan. The latest judgment orders the government to implement the rehabilitation as ordered earlier. When we look at the judgment, it seems a very ruling that goes to benefit all those who is going to displace by this Enormous Dam Construction. When we look into the fact that the ruling was made on a complaint saying rehabilitation has not be done properly, we find the foul play in the ruling. How many times have we heard an instance of the court ruling a judgment by taking into account only the statement made by Government(Surprisingly here Governments are the culprit). This is equal to freeing a murderer, since he has told in the court he has not done the crime. The latest ruling by the Honorable Supreme Court of India openi...
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Russia may target Poland, Czech Republic - Resumption of Cold War
2007-02-22 07:55:01
It does not comes as a surprise the comments made by Russian Strategic Missile Forces Commander Col. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov. The comments came in response to the American Plans to deploy U.S Missiles in Poland and Checz republic. This looks like a resumption of Cold War antics by the two countries. The comments of Russian Strategic Missile Forces Commander Col. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov is given below:MOSCOW: Russia may target its missiles against Poland and the Czech republic if the U.S. sets up its missile defense shield planned in the two East European countries. "If the Polish and Czech governments approve the decision [to deploy U.S. anti-missiles] our strategic missile forces will be able to target those missile sites," said Russian Strategic Missile Forces Commander Col. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov said. The commander told a press conference on Monday that Russia could quickly resume production of medium range missiles if Moscow decided to walk out of a Soviet-era treaty wit...
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