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Celebrating 5 years of blogging + Other Milestones

Filed in Books,General Interest, July 15, 2009, 5:41 pm by ,

TweetProlog It has been a while since i wrote on this blog. Thankfully Abdul Fakhri and Priya Raju have been doing a wonderful job of picking up the slack.  Fine Tastings Since this section has not been carried in a while, i decided that it may not be wise to list all the links i […]

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Can Michael Jackson ‘beat’ Rudyard Kipling to ‘it’?

Filed in Books,General Interest, July 5, 2009, 5:35 pm by

TweetOH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth! The […]

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Does friendship still have any value in the New Millennium?

Filed in Anthropology,General Interest, June 28, 2009, 8:45 pm by

TweetAs someone who has grown up amongst a wide variety of friends, I was taken aback when a friend told me recently that it is increasingly becoming rare when you can have a conversation for conversation’s sake with someone even for a full hour. The implication in that moanful statement was that people have lost interest […]

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A Mongrel’s Tale

Filed in General Interest, June 21, 2009, 10:19 pm by

TweetHave you heard of the Liger? Its the unnatural hybrid of a Lion & a Tigress. The offspring of such a union have agonizing moments of self-doubt & identity crisis. For you see, Tigers are solitary creatures. They are territorial & come together only for mating & raising the young. But, Lions live together, in […]

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How cosmopolitan is cosmopolitan? (or) how cosmopolitan can cosmopolitan get?

Filed in Anthropology,General Interest, June 16, 2009, 10:46 am by

TweetAt the point when folk join organizations to be part of teams, they are reminded that they have left all their cultural biases, if any, of colleagues from diverse backgrounds, behind them and are now part of a cosmopolitan workforce. With globalization, we have also reached a stage of cross-cultural sensitivity or so we like to think […]