Eggs: Vegetarian or Non-Vegetarian?
In a conversation a while back, Bahubali mentioned that chicken eggs are two kinds, fertile and infertile. Most of the eggs that are consumed are infertile. I didn’t know how that would be possible,...
View ArticleI am against reservations
“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime” – Anonymous This Sunday, (21st of May 2006), Vikram, Bahubali and I were on M. G. Road in...
View ArticleQuote on Reservations and Backward Classes
An awesome quote sent in by a friend: “India must be the only country in the world, where people fight to be called backward” Very apt, considering the recent trouble against reservations. This is a...
View ArticleWhy block entire blog sites?
Well, the Indian government has decided to block blogging sites in national interest. There apparently were many blogs criticizing the government after the Mumbai blasts. So the government decides to...
View ArticleLinux myths, lies and truth and why I like Debian
Before this blog starts to seem like a travel blog, let me post something I found immensely interesting and not related to travels and treks and such. Greg Kroah-Hartman‘s keynote speech at this year’s...
View ArticleCopy-and-paste
What’s with people who want to write blogs, want to put up happenings in their lives, want to share the thrill they had… but end up copying stuff from others’ blogs? Are they too lazy to do that? Or...
View ArticleStreet dog advertisement
Really nice ad showing why killing street dogs won’t help fix the rabies problem. And it comes from the government! Good, real good. This is a post from http://log.amitshah.net/, licensed CC BY-SA.
View ArticleParadise regained
So the Taj Mahal made it to the new seven wonders of the world. A distinguished jury deliberated over a period of several years to narrow down the list from hundreds, I believe, sites and monuments, to...
View ArticleThe Art of Convincing and the Importance of Freedom
A kid walks to her father. She wants a chocolate. She knows the father can’t refuse, but mom has tighter control over whether she can really have it. The kid is smart. She tells her dad “mom says I can...
View ArticleKicking up Storms
Much hue and cry was raised earlier this year when Sania Mirza, the #1 Indian woman tennis player, kept her feet close to the Indian flag on a table. Michael Ballack, the captain of the German football...
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