General Interest

A Photo that Made me Pause

Arun calls it ‘marks of hard work.’ And I am not revealing anymore, you have to go and have a look.

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Poessay: Rosary 32 - These Are Not My Words

Anand Jon Alexander Sentenced To 59 Years Of Imprisonment

The Los Angeles Court convicted Anand Jon Alexander of rape and sexually assaulting minors and women. Anand's been sentenced to 59 years of imprisonment.

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Chandan Mitra, The Real Winner

Sri Lanka: Journalist Gets 20 Years Hard Labor

We have been getting several tips about the conviction of a Sri Lankan journalist, J.S. Tissainayagam, who has written articles critical of the Sri Lankan government for a magazine. Tissinayagam has been sentenced to 20 years in prison under Sri Lanka’s emergency laws:

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British Government in Bind Over Release of al Megrahi

How many of you would have heard of the name of 'Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi'. This is the person who is behind a scandal that is shaking Britain, and is causing a huge amount of negative publicity to Gordon Brown. Al Megrahi was convicted for involvement in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, that killed 270 people.

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Tamiflu Resistant A(H1N1) Swine Flu Increasing

Swine Flu (or more correct, H1N1 flu) is now spread all over the world, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. It has been reported from countries all over the world, with people contracting the disease, and a majority of them recovering; for a small fraction of them, the disease worsens to the point that the afflicted person dies.

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Quirk Quotient: Boarding Pass, Please

If you are a Letterman fan like me, you would have seen and loved hilarious segments where Dave creates situations like ‘How many Spidermen can you fit in a Jamba Juice?’. On my recent trip to the Indian sub-continent, I encountered a similar situation, but the subject was ‘How many times will your boarding pass be checked on a given flight?’

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"Ladli": In Delhi, an Incentive to Have Girls

I recently came across the news that, in Delhi, for the first time in many years, the number of girls born was higher than the number of boys.

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Love, Bollywood & Sufism