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Book Review: Jerusalem – The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
The road to this book started almost six months ago. I was not into reading about middle-eastern history. I had very little interest in the history of Abrahamic religions, hence I ending up with this monstrous 540 page book (excluding the notes and references section) on Jerusalem was unlikely. I was recommended this book by…
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Dengue Deaths are Unacceptable in This Age
The municipal corporation in Mumbai (pretty sure most Indian metros have large budgets) has a budget of over Rs 22,000 crores. That is a lot of money and dengue deaths are not just shameful but is incompetency of the highest kind.
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Fun weekend in Mumbai if you like WordPress and Comic books
A quick update on some really cool and interesting you can do in Mumbai this weekend (20th -21st October 2012). People who blog might be aware of WordCamp Mumbai 2012. It is a event organized for WordPress fans and users. Developers, bloggers, startup entrepreneurs all meetup, share, discuss stuff they know about the famous blogging platform WordPress.…
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Is Your Country Free and Democratic?
I must admit, I have started admiring Aseem Trivedi. I had not known much about him. I have not seen his cartoons until a couple of days ago. Guess, what he has been arrested and charged with sedition for ‘mocking the parliament’. (Read Report) But some members of parliament (elected officials a.k.a sanctimonious politicians) who…
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Usain Bolt’s 2 minute 6.32 seconds workout at the London Olympics
Usain Bolt! What a champ! He has six gold medals in 3 events, over two Olympic Games. That means, in every Olympic event he takes part in, he has won the Gold. This time in London, Usain Bolt won the 100, 200 and 4X100m relay. How fast is Bolt? I thought of adding up all…
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Two Voices from the Beyond!
I earn my living as a blogger writing and sharing about technology among other things. When I started my blogging career in 2009, I did not know how far I would go and how much I would actually love writing. But first anyone aspiring to write has to read a lot and that is what…
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Censorship is [redacted]
I was looking through an online conversation recently and realized that many of my friends are completely against online censorship. They do not want anyone policing or controlling what they are consuming. This can range from the types of movies to documentaries to even text that is online. But curiously, something odd is happening with…
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My Life during the Ides of March
My birthday which falls on the 21st of March could never be celebrated when I was a kid. The reason being, schools usually had scheduled their exams around that time. So birthday parties would be in April. I hated it so much that at age ten, I declared I did not want any more parties.…
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How Culture, Language and Perceptions Change?
Even though I know how to read, write and speak Marathi, I have hardly read a book written in the language. I simply never felt inclined to do so. I’ve often heard the quote ‘What will happen to our language if young people do not read books in it?’ – The problem with this argument…
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29 Days of February
Today is the 29th day on February. But why does February exactly have 2 days less than other months which are all 30 days. Legend has it (legend is probably true) that July was named after Julius Ceasar. While August was named after Julius’ successor Emporer Augustus or Augustus Ceasar. Back then August only had 29…
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