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• Dr Devdut Pattanaik

  
  Heartcrossings — Authority: 128
  A lot has been written by children of FOB parents about their coming of age in the west while being brown and sometimes Hindu. Unfortunately, I have found little if any practical use for it. Much of this genre of writing is about the consequences of omissions, mistakes, short-sightedness and such on the part of the ...
  16 hours ago

• Tasmanian Devils And One Selfish Gene

  
  Reporting on a Revolution — Authority: 422
  Genes dont have real motives. Selfish in the term "selfish gene"  really reflects the metaphorical motives of genes and not the real motives of individuals carrying those genes. Ordinarily, different genes in the multicellular bodies of organisms co-operate. Such a system has evolved because in sexually reproducing ...
  17 hours ago

• Junagadh – A Journey through Ages

  
  ghumakkar.com — Authority: 119
  Junagadh is a city and the headquarters of Junagadh district in Gujarat. It is at a distance of 327 km from Ahmedabad and is about 58 Km from Sasan Gir. The small city of Junagadh is rich in myths-legends and has such an eventful past that it breathes history. It is at the base [...]
  2 days ago

• 2009 : Good reads

  
  Review Room — Authority: 106
  There were a lot of lovely books in 2009, and here are three of my favorites : - The help by Kathryn Stockett Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is a young girl who has just finished her degree  and returned to her small, conservative town of Jackson, Mississippi. Unlike other girls her age, she does ...
  5 days ago

• Top Technology Trends That Transformed Tamilnadu This Tecade

  
  Doing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa — Authority: 405
  The first decade of the new millennium has come to an end. As a reader, you are typically presented with a whole cornucopia of ‘Best/ Worst of the Decade’ features on every Tom’s newspaper, Dick’s magazine and Harry’s Pottery website. ‘Top 10’, ‘Five most important’, ‘20 greatest hits’. And so ...
  5 days ago

• Supremely Sublime Movies of 2009 – Part 1

  
  Dappan Koothu — Authority: 112
  Another year crawls to an end and that means it is time we looked back at the fruits, our beloved Hindi cinema gave us. With everyone compiling their own lists of the best movies of the year and arguing over their choices, we prefer to ignore them. We aren’t going to squabble over why Kaminey was a better movie than ...
  5 days ago

• A Goan Monsoon

  
  ghumakkar.com — Authority: 119
  DRIVING HOLIDAY TO GOA IN JULY - AUGUST 2009.We were driving down to Goa one more time, our fifth holiday in Goa since December 2001. I had booked in Club Mahindra’s Varca Beach resort almost two months ahead. We got the booking easily because it is the end of blue season (slack season) at this [...]
  6 days ago

• 2009 : The Top 10 Films . . .

  
  Review Room — Authority: 106
  . . .or my experiments with Youtube. And they were good let me tell you, for a novice Youtube uploader. I started off with lofty goals. As a part of my yearly round-up I do a Best Films of the Year post, and this time decided to make a Youtube movie to showcase the notable ones. The original plan was to employ Adobe ...
  1 week ago

• Parting thought for 2009

  
  Pragmatic Euphony — Authority: 427
  Why do terror incidents in India that are counted refer only to Pakistan-backed Islamist terrorist attacks in major urban centres outside Jammu & Kashmir? An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.~John Cage At the turn of the year, Ajai Sahni critically examines ...
  1 week ago

• 3 Idiots

  
  Heartcrossings — Authority: 128
  Watching 3 Idiots was a bitter-sweet experience which is probably an unusual reaction to a movie that tries for the most part to tickle your funny bone. It took me back to my own engineering college days in India, the experience of having let off steam after cooking for more than two years the ultimate pressure ...
  1 week ago

• Priyanka Chopra in Saheli-Ana: Why Should Boys Have All the Fun?

  
  PrernaLal.com — Authority: 124
  I can turn my brain off for a second and enjoy this video of Priyanka Chopra in a new avatar: Of course, I don’t understand why the other woman has to appear dressed like a man to denote that kind of ‘Dostana.’ This adoption of gayness for humor is a troubling trend that reveals the deeper homophobic attitude ...
  1 week ago

• 10 Lessons From 3 Idiots

  
  AmreekanDesi — Authority: 106
  The latest Aamir Khan starrer 3 Idiots is being widely acclaimed as one of the best movies of recent times. I managed to catch a show last week, and came back impressed. Not just impressed. I learnt a lot from the movie. What follows is ten important lessons in life that the movie taught me. This is not a review. ...
  1 week ago

• The year-end review sucks

  
  Pragmatic Euphony — Authority: 427
  Because the defence ministry is still reinforcing the status quo. At the end of every calendar year, the ministry of defence, like many other ministries in the Government of India, comes out with a year-end review of its activities . Trite, benign and perfunctory in its recounting of facts, it makes for a ...
  1 week ago

• Book Review : The sweetness at the bottom of the pie

  
  Review Room — Authority: 106
  I don’t remember how I was recommended this novel, but am thankful post-read that I came across this un-put-down-able book. A good old-fashioned murder mystery with some very interesting characters, this book stood out because of it’s story-telling style and dry wit. The story is narrated by the book’s heroine ...
  1 week ago

• The Canadian Dream Deferred: Stealing Nasreen by Farzana Doctor

  
  Brown Paper — Authority: 106
  Every immigrant to the western world knows, or knows of, a cabdriver who was a brain surgeon or fiscal economist in his homeland. The narrative of the underemployed migrant goes something like this: lured by promise of fluid upward mobility and unfettered capitalism, professionals move west, only to find that their ...
  1 week ago

• Happily Unmarried

  
  Heartcrossings — Authority: 128
  When a couple of  talented desi guys come together and dream up an idea that is uniquely and authentically Indian, pair it with a great design sensibility, you have have something like Happily Unmarried . I follow the start-up activity in India and long to see desi ingenuity meet design and  technology in ways that ...
  1 week ago

• Ghanti Bajao, Ghanti Bajao

  
  Dappan Koothu — Authority: 112
  Ah friends, we meet again! Myself Baba Bangali, resident astrologer, philosopher and everything-man for this space.It has been a while since I was last here, and I’m here to ring in the festive spirit. The occasion is actually to mark the birth of my buddy JC , and our initial plan was to have him grace this space. ...
  1 week ago

• Some Good Holiday Listening and Reading

  
  Reporting on a Revolution — Authority: 422
  Heres a list of holiday whiling-aways for you: Literary and Musical Stuff: 1) The Definitive Dickens - Tom Ashbrook discusses a new biography of Charles Dickens with biographer Michael Slater 2) Alexander McCall Smith - Author of No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency talks about his work and life in Africa and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Christmas in Achayanland!

  
  silverine — Authority: 109
  Its Christmas time dearies. The hills and rubber estates are alive with the sound of chopping, cutting, whisking, tasting, cursing and vice versa, plus the aromas of much cooking happening. Achayanland is a very happening place now! You have to just walk by homes to predict exactly what they are going to have for ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Middle Stages Books of 2009: Fiction

  
  The Middle Stage — Authority: 456
  The Tamil writer Salma’s The Hour Past Midnight (Zubaan) tells the story, and the stories, of a group of women who belong to a Muslim trading and landowning community in a small village in Tamil Nadu. Each one of these characters is vividly brought to life, and the narrator beautifully negotiates multiple ...
  2 weeks ago

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