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The 2011 Census, currently underway in India, is likely to come up with a population figure exceeding 1.2 billion. If it keeps growing at t...

Daughter: This classmate of mine pisses me off completely…. Me: Hello, would you like to modify that sentence? Daughter: Ok, this class...

In April 2010, newspapers reported that the Prime Minister was enumerated for Census. Yesterday was the turn of the Vice President to get...

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is reported to have said yesterday : “Corruption strikes at the roots of good governance. It is an impedim...

The National flag and the Congress Party flag carry the same combination of colours and in the same order. The difference is only in the emb...

The ghost writer who prepared the text of the Republic day address to be delivered by President Prathibha Patil, gave it the title. “Speech ...

This is my 750th post , and my 50th with the BritIndia tag. My interest in this period of Indian history began when I found that Google Boo...

While in Mumbai, I visit an office that has two sections, one of which is located on the 25th floor of Block A, and the other on the 25th fl...

The Indian cricket team now in South Africa without the top batsmen, Tendulkar, Sehwag and Gambhir, seems to be doing well. This is a happy ...

" Modern India with illustrations of the resources and capabilities of Hindustan ", by Henry H Spry, M.D, published in the year 18...

When inflation goes out of control, the Govt must be seen to be acting promptly and decisively. The root cause must be found and remedial st...

“ An Encylopaedia of Rural Sports ” published in the year 1840 talks about the spread of cricket in the British colonies. (page 134) "...

Peter Roebuck writes in his column : Usman Khawaja is set to become the first Muslim to play cricket for his country. Of course it is a gre...

I was in a mall in Delhi the week after Diwali and observed that almost all the showrooms had displayed huge signs announcing “Sale: Flat di...

In the year 1834, one Ram Raz , a retired native Judge and magistrate at Bangalore, published an “Essay on Hindu Architecture” that for the...

It must be tough being the ghost writer of India’s Prime Minister. Solemn messages must be sent out on every possible occasion. The PM must ...

A news item on Dec 5th this year reported: “A security alert has been sounded across Uttar Pradesh and other communally-sensitive places i...

In an article in The Outlook, Madhu Purnima Kishwar writes: I fail to understand why almost every commentator, every TV anchor, every edit...

“Household Words” a journal edited by Charles Dickens, carried this chilling narrative in one of the issues that it brought out in the year...

Mark Lowry, comedian, in this hilarious interview when he turned forty, explains how the description of birthday changes every decade. Yo...