The Great Ganesha

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The title results from having recently seen Munnabhai Part 2. But seriously, I just wanted to send Gandhiji some belated birthday greetings. On October 2nd (yesterday) he celebrated his 137th birth anniversary. Happy belated birthday, Bapuji. My family has some close ties with Gandhi, as I’ve written about in an earlier post. The matriarch of [...]

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Notwithstanding my opinion on using ‘Mumbai’, this is serious. A friend forwarded me an email the other day and it has to with the bomb blasts that affected Bombay on July 11th of this year. So many people have complained about the vaccum of governmental support that existed both, in the events leading up to [...]

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So, yesterday Genentech [stock symbol: DNA] the big biotech turned 30. They had a huge concert at their campus near San Francisco. The RXGeek works there, and so I was invited for the festivities. Every year they get big artists. Last year it was Elton John. This year, it was kept a surprise until the [...]

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Seven bombs on seven different commuter trains on the Western Railways went off within minutes of each other on Tuesday (7/11) evening. Apparently all in first-class compartments. Officially, there are hundreds of casualties. Unofficially, there are probably thousands – each compartment holds somewhere in the range of at least two hundred people when full. And [...]

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What's NOT made in China for a change, are civil rights. Yup, you heard right. Nick Bryant, the BBC's South Asia correspondent just wrote a book entitled The Bystander: John F Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality. The entire book was written during his sojourn in South Asia. So what does the civil rights [...]

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Growing up, Archie Comics were despised by my parents for their lack of literary value ("You should be reading books instead of wasting your time with comics!"), but no less than wolfed down by me. There was nothing like spending an entire afternoon going through a pile of new Archies. In fact, when there were [...]

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Friedman never ceases to amaze me. Rarely (if ever) does one see an American journalist with such insight and understanding into complex international issues. The real problem was recently spelled out by an Arab-American psychiatrist, Dr. Wafa Sultan, in a stunning interview with Al Jazeera. Speaking about the Arab-Muslim world, Dr. Sultan said: ‘The clash [...]

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Some guys from the Design Program at IIT Kanpur created this music video. The video is all right, but the song is damn catchy. I like what they’ve done. A creative way to channel one’s energies during (I guess) exam week. Thought I would give them some free publicity. PS: It’s in hindi (FYI) for [...]

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