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There has been a lot of talk this month about the state of affairs at Kingfisher Airlines, the airlines founded by Vijay Mallya. While Vijay Mallya has asked the Government for bail out money (is Kingfisher too big to fail ), the Government has rejected his request. This brings up an interesting point. Vijay Mallya [...]

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While browsing online, I came across two specific pictures which had a common pattern: Creative road side shop keepers copying popular internet brand names and coming up with their own shop names. In one instance, a person opened a mobile soft drink stall called Gogola and nicely copied Google’s style. In the second instance, this [...]

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This time when I was in Chennai, I saw a 12B bus going in front of me. I happened to notice a bunch of school kids hang out of the bus on the foot board and it was really scary. I have done this quite a few times when I was of that age, but [...]

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The Kudankulam Nuclear Plant Project has been going on for many years now and it is ready to be commissioned soon. In the past few months, there have been major protests about the safety of the neighbouring areas, if any accidents happen in the plant. The public protests have gathered momentum and they have now [...]

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Today I heard the news that Nadeem Sayed, a Right To Information (RTI) activist was killed by some unknown people in Ahmedabad in Gujarat. Nadeem was already under police protection because he was a crucial witness in the Naroda Patiya case – one of the cases filed after the 2002 Godhra riots in Gujarat. This [...]

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Happened to watch a snippet from a function attended by Rajini and Kamal, where Arattai Arangam fame, Manikandan, was invited to give a speech. I respect Rajinikanth for his simplicity and agree with the fact that the speaker pointed out that he is one of the very few artists in movie industry who attend functions [...]

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The British court had announced earlier this week that the three Pakistani cricketers, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were found guilty of the charges of match fixing. Salman Butt was given 30 months, Mohammad Asif 12 months and Mohammad Amir 6 months jail sentence. The bookie involved, Mazhar Majeed was given 32 months [...]

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Pakistan has announced that it is granting the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India. There have been a lot of cry from within Pakistan not to do so, based on India’s stand on Kashmir.  The Information Minister of Pakistan has said it will be beneficial for both sides to do so. Historically, at different [...]

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Nita Ambani is the wife of the famous Mukesh Ambani, who is one of the top 10 richest people in the world. Nita Ambani has always claimed that she is happy being Mukesh’s wife but the recent events in the past two years show a trend. Nita Ambani is quite active in social work for [...]

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It started snowing quite heavily this morning and I just realized I have never seen such heavy snow during October. Took a snap of the view from my office. I love this view where I have seen the colours of the leaves change during fall and snow during winter – nice to see them both [...]

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