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Commenting on the assassination of Ms Bhutto, Bush condemned it as a ‘cowardly act”. He said the same thing about the 9/11 incidents. Many o...

One of the tidbits displayed on the screen when the India-Australia test match was being telecast today was that the coach, Buchanan, had on...

When trying to read the reviews in “The Hindu” today of the many concerts in Chennai, as part of the ‘Carnatic Music season’, I found that I...

Two weeks back. Hired an auto-rickshaw to go from Point A to B. When we reached destination, the driver asked me to pay Rs 120/-. I was fu...

Tired of the hackneyed ‘Frankenstein’ theme, wherein robots destroyed their creators, the science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov came up with ...

“Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental, he is charming. It is only...

In Finland, where I happened to be this week, there is concern about snow or rather the absence of it for the second Christmas in a row. Muc...

Massoud Shaari on the Persian setar ( not to be confused with the Indian sitar) and Darshan Anand on the tabla. (via BoingBoing and Raymo...

“Whether the shape or symbol be sonnet or sunset, curve of fiddle-bow or curve of cricket bat, only with our own vision may we see the light...

As an engineer, what I found interesting in the news reports on the delay in the launch of Atlantis , the space shuttle was NASA’s admissio...

Rahul Dravid’s 19 runs in this test is the highest score ever by a right-handed, January-born, Mach3-using, clean-shaven, Indian ex-captain ...

For more than 40 years, automobile makers, oil companies and additive manufacturers kept denying that tetraethyl lead was a serious health h...

The Story of Stuff narrated very well. ( via : BoingBoing)

Tyler Cowen offers some tips for committed foodies: For those looking to take a food vacation, I have a recommendation. Choose a country wi...

Daughter : Appa, if two of your friends did something wrong, would you confront them or would you ignore them? Me : Give me an exam...

There was a time when the activity of picking and buying fruits was a gamble. There was a 30% chance of the fruit being rotten, 40% chance o...

R.K.Narayan’s book, “Salt and Sawdust” has a selection called ‘Table Talk’, which according to RKN was a new form of writing, without the co...

John Keats wrote these famous lines in his poem, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all ...

According to this article in Salon, livestock accounts for 18% of the world’s greenhouse gas emission, more than the entire transportation ...

Being part of the corporate world, and working for an MNC, to boot, I endorse and help promote capitalism. I naturally want to believe that ...