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Heartcrossings
Name Generator
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Found this fun blog post that generates your name as it might have been if your mom was Sarah Palin - its hard to forget her in my neck of the woods with the yards ...
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rAKeSH
Gmail's got themes now!
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Awesome! I always wanted a darker version of gmail, guess my wish is fulfilled now. :) For the same thing earlier I had installed greasemonkey, but now its right within Gmail. Thank you Team Gmail. ...
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Arunn
Magnetoreception and Shark Repellants
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Some time back I wrote an essay on Magnetoreception . In that it was mentioned about how sharks can sense the Earth’s geomagnetic field. A short recap from that essay:
Sharks and rays possess ...
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Filbert
Flavor of the season - Obama
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Loved the mosaic/ collage below, that was made out of the first pages of newspapers from all over the world, after the historic victory. Courtesy - Obama News Mosaic . The size of the version I have uploaded ...
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Patrix
Farewell to Dada
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The camaraderie he created with the “huddle” continues to date and is one of the greatest symbols of Indian cricket. The combo of Ganguly the captain, Rahul the vice captain and John Wright the coach will remain ...
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Patrix
The Tragedy of Being Chanderpaul
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Every fucken time I walk out in the maroons, or my whites with my maroon hat, I have to pick up 10 men, and carry them around for a day, and sometimes 5.
This really ruins ...
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Patrix
Caferati-LiveJournal Quick Tales Results
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The results for The Caferati-LiveJournal Quick Tales contest are out. The twelve winning stories are linked along with the links to the prize-winners’ LiveJournal profiles.
See Also : Follow DesiPundit on ...
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Patrix
Interview with Jaswant Singh
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India’s former foreign minister spoke to Pragati on the relationship between the state, the nation, and society. You can listen to the podcast here .
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Nikhil
Lamentations of a Lost Soul
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Here, flowers are plastic, lips are painted, breasts are silicon filled, smiles are wicked and you know men don’t have moustache. People in a pretentious frenzy, clamoring over their cell phones sprinkling ‘Fuck’, liberally in their tele ...
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Nikhil
Fair or unfair
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If you are a fairer than most, you fit a wide variety of roles. If you are dark, a couple of obvious career paths are available to you.
You can position yourself as a “dusky sex siren”. ...
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Nikhil
Fight to Save Yamuna
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In a capital city, where we always face a power and water crisis, building new luxurious villages is nothing out of norm. The thing that Government got wrong this time is that it plans to build ...
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JK
His Space
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In spite of his tryst with Asimov, he never wanted to be an astronaut. He had been hearing stories of the strenuous training involved in preparing oneself to become an astronaut. The story had a tragic end, ...
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Patrix
Scientific Indian Story Contest 2008
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Selva announces the results of this years Scientific Indian Story Contest . Although he hasn’t posted the winning entry yet, he shares this wonderful toolkit that every creative science writer should be aware ...
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Patrix
Speaking Out Against Casteist Violence
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They have taken an anti-Dalit line and this has led to minor skirmishes in the recent past. In pamphlets and posters within the campus, the Mukkulathoor Maanavar Peravai specially omitted the usage of “Dr.Ambedkar’s” name while referring ...
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IdeaSmith
Dostana and Gays
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The Dostana promos included an un-self-conscious proclamation of “We’re gay.” After the release this Friday, what did the audience think of Bollywood’s newest offering about a (supposedly) homosexual couple?
Neha thinks that the ...
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Patrix
Looking for the Indian Obama
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I wanted to objectively evaluate India’s potential ‘Obamas’, three names have come up pretty consistently are Rahul Gandhi (INC), Sachin Pilot (INC) and Omar Abdullah (NC). The discerning observer will quickly realize that these are all heirs ...
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Nikhil
Think before you blog!
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2. Anonymous name : Being anonymous or not revealing your true identity does not guarantee anonymity. It just takes a couple of hours to track anyone down on the internet. Sad but true. (Unless you are a ...
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JK
Indian History Carnival - 11
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The Indian History Carnival, published on the 15th of every month, is a collection of posts related to Indian history and archaeology.
As Tamil Nadu politicians and film stars are protesting against the killing of innocent Tamils ...
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JK
To Continue in English, Press 1
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CSO : 3G hasn’t been launched yet sir. Why the hurry?
MS : Oh, no real hurry. So far, 2G was enough. I had only Sonia-ji & Rahul-ji to call. But I heard Priyanka-ji may enter ...
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Patrix
Hall of Shame
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Following the guilty verdict handed down to Anand Jon, I ndiatime looks at the other bad apples who at times use the crutch of desi-desi-bhai-bhai to excuse their crimes.
See Also : ...
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Patrix
Friday Photo of the Week #32
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G’bye meandering ways
[click on image to enlarge] Selected by Arun . Join the DesiPundit India through Flickr group to see your photos here. This group is ...
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Nikhil
Obama should change
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Overated Outcast is unhappy with Obama . He wants the good old guy back.
This is completely unacceptable and has to change. Look, we cheered for you. Kenya had an orgasm when you won. ...
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Nikhil
JEE and GATE
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Prof.Giridhar talks about some changes he would like to see in JEE and GATE.
Considering the distribution of the marks in JEE is a Weibull distribution, we know that the average does not correspond ...
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IdeaSmith
Victim No More
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The Mad Momma refuses to be a victim - of sexual harassment or street harassment.
‘Don’t you dare do that again..’ I screamed as they got away.
People in the market stared but ...
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Patrix
The Tragedy of Being Chanderpaul
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Every fucken time I walk out in the maroons, or my whites with my maroon hat, I have to pick up 10 men, and carry them around for a day, and sometimes 5.
This really ruins ...
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ideasmith
A Tree Grows In Mumbai
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That patch of yellow in the corner isn’t an indication of autumn (Do we get that in Mumbai?).
The minute the street-lamp is turned on in the early evening, ...
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Patrix
Caferati-LiveJournal Quick Tales Results
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The results for The Caferati-LiveJournal Quick Tales contest are out. The twelve winning stories are linked along with the links to the prize-winners’ LiveJournal profiles.
See Also : Follow DesiPundit on ...
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Patrix
Interview with Jaswant Singh
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India’s former foreign minister spoke to Pragati on the relationship between the state, the nation, and society. You can listen to the podcast here .
...
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Arunn
Lotus Leaves, Hydrophobic and Omniphobic Surfaces
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Surfaces can be hydrophobic. Like Lotus leaves [1]. They can be superhydrophobic. Like soot coated discs that bounce off milk drops. Now they can be omniphobic. Recent research [2] demonstrate surfaces that ...
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FMCG companies get IT savvy
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Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies are looking at 10-20 percent improvement in production and efficiency levels this year because of the adoption of newer technologies to track expansion of product portfolio and manufacturing locations, besides aggregation of godowns and ...
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Nikhil
Lamentations of a Lost Soul
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Here, flowers are plastic, lips are painted, breasts are silicon filled, smiles are wicked and you know men don’t have moustache. People in a pretentious frenzy, clamoring over their cell phones sprinkling ‘Fuck’, liberally in their tele ...
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Heartcrossings
Rice Farming and Math
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I can't wait to read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers even though I was underwhelmed by The Tipping Point. Despite all the hype around it, I was not convinced enough by his line of reasoning to be converted. I am particularly ...
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Srivalli
Paneer Chettinad Curry!
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I know it must be pretty obvious that paneer is something that I am very fond of and I take great pleasure in the fact that even Konda loves it. But even I was surprised when hubby dear gave ...
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Arunn
Should I Profess
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Thankfully, Walter Noll comes to my rescue explaining what it actually means [pdf] to profess…
[cartoon pointed to me by Vijay ]
Posted in Clutter Tagged: comics, Humor, profess, ...
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The revival of a costly myth
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My friend Chandrasekar forwarded this mail to me. It is an interesting article about government spending. The way governments work all over the world, any new scheme has to be gone through with a very fine toothcomb. It is sad ...
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Mayooresan
Themes for Gmail from Google
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There are several third party script based themes available for Gmail but now we have official themes for Gmail. Yes, Google has announced Themes for Gmail.
Today morning in Twitter I saw people are talking about ...
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Prabha
Firni (Rice Pudding)
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Ingredients: Rice Flour ........ 1 cup Sugar ..... 2 cups Milk ....... 9 cups Almonds 10 to 12 Pistachios ........ ...
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rAKeSH
Nagercoil Junction
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Nagercoil Junction , originally uploaded by Rakesh Ashok . Well that's my dad's native. I stayed there for four years i.e. right from my 6th Std to 9th Std. It's not what ...
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Nikhil
Fair or unfair
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If you are a fairer than most, you fit a wide variety of roles. If you are dark, a couple of obvious career paths are available to you.
You can position yourself as a “dusky sex siren”. ...
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Mayooresan
Pomegranate - an iPhone Killer
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Pomegranate is a powerful hand held phone that going to kick on the ass of iPhone. I just got the link to Pomegranate on Twitter in John Reese’s Twit. Design is stunning and eye catchy. ...
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Heartcrossings
Love 2.0
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Reading this article in which experts hold forth on online dating reminded me of something a friend had said a while ago - that I should write a post on how to spot a fake in thirty ...
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Selva
When Newspapers are wrong
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As a person with prospective investible money, I was eager to know about various ‘value-picks’ (hee hee, yes, you can get bamboozled once more) based on Price-to-Earnings and Price-to-Book ratios in the Indian capital markets. There was a huge ...
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Nikhil
Fight to Save Yamuna
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In a capital city, where we always face a power and water crisis, building new luxurious villages is nothing out of norm. The thing that Government got wrong this time is that it plans to build ...
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