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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

Filed in General Interest,Humor, July 11, 2008, 10:03 pm by

TweetThe world exists to annoy me. I’ve noticed to my chagrin some people signing-off their email with pithy aphorisms.”War is the science of destruction” or “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of”. As if I care. What happened? Are Bumper Stickers not haute enough this season? When […]

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What is patriotism?

Filed in General Interest, July 7, 2008, 10:34 am by

Tweet Recently read an excellent article on Time about what patriotism means in America – both from Republican and Liberal point of view. As per the author, for the conservatives, patriotism is not a choice and it is like love for your family – you inherit it and do not question it. Conservatives talk a […]

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Celebrating 4 years of blogging!

Filed in General Interest, July 6, 2008, 3:17 pm by ,

TweetUpdated July 10, 2008 : This post has been Desipundited. Thanks a lot Patrix. —- Prolog I generally avoid milestone posts, but i could not resist this one. Last week, on June 27, 2008, we completed 4 years on this blog. During that time, we have written  497 posts and received 2,851 comments.  Just 3 posts away from […]

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Democracy In India – Part 2

Filed in General Interest, June 27, 2008, 4:09 am by

TweetThe world is abuzz with the gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe. Free & fair elections are well neigh impossible. Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader, is incarcerated whenever Robert Mugabe feels paranoid. The media is in shackles. Many people are homeless because of the mass evictions by the government. The police beat up anyone committing […]

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Democracy In India – Part 1

Filed in General Interest, June 14, 2008, 9:29 am by

TweetThe world is chock full of tiresome, litigious people. I fervently hope they won’t accuse me of pilfering this title from de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America”. For the past few weeks, some over-sized issues are stewing in my under-sized brain. There’s no room for plagiarism, as it were. I’m not competent enough to steal, that’s […]