tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242330952012-01-09T14:56:54.263+05:30My 'non-euphemistic, not-so-politically-correct' take on everything under the sun.Ganesh Ranganathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08964999212961469918noreply@blogger.comBlogger861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233095.post-90573625582307055552009-12-21T19:50:00.001+05:302009-12-21T19:52:35.039+05:30

Here is an example of usage of Silverlight Accordion control hosted on my blog.http://blog.ganeshzone.net/blog/index.php/2009/11/accordion-control-in-silverlight-3/

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In a few days from now, famous UK auction house Christie's is going to auction off a bunch of letters written by Mahatma Gandhi just days before his assassination. These letters were written for the journal "The Harijan" and asked Hindus and Muslims to unite and forget their differences. Because they were his last letters, there is a significant amount to sentimental value attached to them. And

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The bloodshed in Iraq has no shown no signs of abating with yet another string of suicide bombings killing 45 people on Monday. The total body count in Iraq has now reached 3567 U.S troops and 72910 Iraqi civilians. The cost of the war could surpass an unprecedented 1 trillion dollars.What was the benefit that the United States derived out of killing more than 75000 people and spending so much of

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Hi guys, the hiatus is over....going to return to blogging pretty soon....missed you all a lot.

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College is almost officially over. They gave us our course completion certificates and deleted our library accounts. Me and my classmates decided to make the most of the time left and went for a farewell tour. Here are some pics. The picture quality is very bad, a cellphone camera was the best we could manage.

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This is a repost. I posted it in memory of Olive, my only pet, which had an ephemeral existence of just one day. Its been more than a year since she died.I guess the animal biotech mass murders were troubling everyone's conscience for the last one and a half months. It wasn't long before someone decided to do something about it. That someone happened to be 'damn-it', my classmate. While coming

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My final semester exams are nearing, starting next friday actually. So I am a bit tied up at the moment. Will return to reading all your blogs latest by May 15'th

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No this is not about my graduation. That is at least 6 months away provided I clear all my exams, a scenario which currently does not look all that feasible. This post is to congratulate my nephew who graduated last week. Before you guys have any doubts about my age, let me clarify that he graduated from Pre-school to Nursery. Congrats, Kid. May God Bless you.

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College life is drawing to an end. It is very hard not to look back at college with nostalgia even though I have cursed it to no end and continue to do so. It just feels like yesterday that I stepped into the mysterious grounds of SRM as a fresher forever looking behind my back in the fear of being confronted by rowdy seniors and being forced to part with even a fraction of my very limited

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India is the most consistent team in the world cup. We are the only ones who can regularly fail to deliver whenever the situation demands. There is no use criticizing last night's match. We obviously don't learn from past mistakes.Team India could do well to start packing their bags. We are almost out of the tournament. The only outside hope for us to make it through to the next round is that

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At last, a victory for India. The Bermuda team was never in a position to beat us at any point of the match. Our batting was near perfect with every batsmen clicking except Uthappa and that can be excused when the rest of the team played so well.Our victory looked great on paper. We completely outplayed Bermuda. What concerns me is our bowling. The team was never aggressive enough. Now, mistakes

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I was shocked to hear that Bob Woolmer died yesterday after being found unconscious in his hotel room. The timing of the death certainly raises some suspicions. Also, the failure of the authorities to declare the cause of the death is questionable. Speculations range from heart attack to stress. We might get a clearer picture following the autopsy.Bob Woolmer was a great coach. He was the one who

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The most pathetic performance by India in the world cup leaves very little to say. We were outplayed by Bangladesh in all the three departments of the game. India looked like the minnows while Bangladesh played like professionals. Wrong decisions began right from the toss, where Dravid elected to bat in a moisture covered pitch and outfield where getting through the first 15 overs is hell. Then

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The bears are roaring again and the bulls are making a tactical retreat. Bad news is on the horizon.It could be just a temporary phase, or worse a slowdown. Worst Case Scenario : It could even be a recession.The spiralling oil prices couldn't stop the dream run of the bulls for the last two runs. India and China are still growing at near double digit percentages even with oil stabilizing after

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Sonia had a little lamb, little lamb,Its beard was white as snow;And everywhere that Sonia went, Sonia wentThe lamb was sure to go....

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Sorry Guys, really missed reading all your blogs for the last 2-3 weeks. I am Busy with my final year project. Will be back soon...

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Hi. Hutch Announcement on per SMS charges on 14'th Feb - Local SMS: 25p, National SMS: Rs 1, International SMS: Rs 5. This is for your information. This is the text message that I received from Hutch a few days ago. And I consider it absolutely unfair that the company charges money for sending an SMS on Valentines day. And not only on Feb 14'th, I was charged money for sending greetings on

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The 33'rd National games started in Guwahati yesterday amidst threats of boycott by the terrorist organization ULFA. The boycott call was withdrawn by ULFA after a plea by the chief minister and other assamese sportspersons.The ULFA massacred more than 70 Hindi speaking people (mostly Biharis) in the state, and the chief minister is virtually begging the terrorist organization to desist from

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One of the world's most published authors, 'Sidney Sheldon' died yesterday at the age of 89. He not only wrote novels, but was also a producer, a scriptwriter, a poet. He wrote for television, theatre and movies. I never liked his books very much, it was like water compared with the wine other writers wrote. His books were like a bollywood masala movie without much literary value. The only Sidney

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The accused in the Noida Killings case were beaten up by lawyers and the crowd while they were coming out of the court. It is an unfortunate incident that the police are not able to provide security for the under trials. What is even more unfortunate is that more people have condemned the beating up of these two criminals than the killings itself. Suddenly all the human rights activists have

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1. Were you named after anyone?Yes, Ganesha , The god of knowledge....2. Do you wish on stars?The last time I wished on a star was in 2003 during the world cup final....India LOST3. When did you last cry?Don't remember, It must have been in the 6'th or 7'th standard.4. Do you like your handwriting?My handwriting is awful....I can't understand what I wrote a week back...5. What is your favourite

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Today is the 15'Th of January. Pretty soon It will be the end of March and time for me to submit my final year graduation project and receive my degree. The only problem......I still haven't started my project yet.With the clock ticking on, I am getting more and more panicky. Its all the result of my procrastination. I should have started looking for a lab to do my project much earlier than I

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For the last ten days, the story that is hogging most of the airtime on every news channel in India is the Noida serial killing. Two individuals, Mohinder Singh and Surendra managed to lure, sexually abuse and kill more than 35 young children. They were undetected for nearly two years. Repeated complaints by the parents of missing children fell on deaf ears of the lethargic and corruption ridden

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I know this is kinda shamelessly tooting my own horn, but I couldn't really resist. Today I AM 21 years old. Turning from a minor to a major. I don't think that will make much difference to my life, but it is a change nonetheless. I hope at least it stops my parents from treating me like a kid.Jonathan Swift once said "May you live all the days of your life."....I hope

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I am back to the blogosphere after a huge gap of nearly a month.I really missed reading all your blogs and promise to get updated on each and every one of your blogs in 2-3 days. My exams got over last week and I had to write 7 exams in 14 days with only one day in between for each one. I didnt write my CAT exam as badly as I had expected to, but it wasn't exactly great either.After finishing my

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It is only twice a year that exams come, but nobody really misses them. Mine are starting in a week and its study, study, study if I want to have any hope of passing my final year.I will be off blogger for the next 20 days or so....see you guys after that..Adios

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There may be times when you feel down,when all you have on your face is a frown.People seem hostile, friends seem foes,no one gives a damn about your woes.You are so confused, don't know whom to trust,Love is even worse, is it serious or mere lust?Temptations are extreme- Sex, Drugs, Booze.It's like a war-Heads they win, tails you lose.Hormones, they tell you. Just a passing phase.But you can't

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I love the first smell of rain when it hits the mud. It feels so fresh, so refreshing, so energetic. But after five days of incessant rainfall, any such enthusiasm gets damped. I am sick and tired of seeing water everywhere and the irritating need to remember to take an umbrella everytime I step out of the house.Reminds me of some lines from the poem "Rime of the ancient mariner"Water, water,

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Very few sportspersons have dominated their respective fields with such panache and grace as Micheal Schumacher has. A few examples would be Sachin Tendulkar in cricket, Wayne Gretzky in ice hockey, Lance Armstrong in cycling. These stars did more than just winning, they became bigger than the game itself, symbolic of victory.In a few hours from now, this indomitable sportsperson will race

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These are the lyrics of one of my favorite Elvis songs "In the Ghetto"As the snow fliesOn a cold and gray chicago morninA poor little baby child is bornIn the ghettoAnd his mama criescause if theres one thing that she dont needIts another hungry mouth to feedIn the ghettoPeople, dont you understandThe child needs a helping handOr hell grow to be an angry young man some dayTake a look at you and

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I am not much of a Forsyth fan. The only other book by him that I have read is "The Day of the Jackal", which was brilliant. I even managed to miss his other best sellers "The fist of God" and "Icon".PLOT:So few days ago, when I bought his latest book published this year "The Afghan", it was because a friend recommended it to me. The book is not that long- only 322 pages. It is set in the

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North Korea has claimed to have tested a nuclear device on the 9'th of October. And so, the nuclear club has to grudgingly accommodate country number 9. The countries which have already tested are USA, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel ( It was never confirmed or denied it, but it is widely suspected), and now North Korea. The actual extent of North Korea's nuclear program was a

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I have been tagged again, by Neha, so here goes....I am thinking:How to study for my model exams next week? , when shall I go home next?I said:nothing at all, I have been silent for the last 1 hour....I want:A 60 GB video Ipod, Any cellphone from the Nokia N-series, A seat at IIM Ahemadabad.I wish:I would be left alone on an island for atleast 6 months doing absolutely nothing at all.I miss:My

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The newspapers and editorials are full of news about the hanging of Mohd Afzal , one of the main accused in the 2001 parliament attack case.When we read about such an article, the first emotion that our mind grapples with is sympathy. We reason that since we cannot give life, we have no right to take it away either. To some extent, this is correct. We should not indiscriminately hang people who

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I have been tagged by Arch. I have to list 6 wierd things about myself. What one person considers wierd may be perfectly normal for someone else. Anyways, these are 6 things about me that I consider wierd....1.) I have a concentration span in milliseconds:Quite often when I am talking to people for more than 5-10 minutes, I find my mind wandering away and start to think something else. After some

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After reading excerpts and reviews of Musharaff's latest book "In the line of fire", I can say that either Musharaff is himself an idiot or considers everyone else in the world to be one. Given the circumstances, I would bet on the former.Is Musharaff so tired of playing Bush's puppy dog, that he tried to come up with something sensational to justify his own sorry existence divided between the

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The picture you are seeing is of the "Unknown rebel". This was taken during the famous 'Tiananmen Square' protests of 1989 in Beijing when thousands of people assembled to protest against the Communist Party of China (CPC). It symbolizes the helpless voice of a billion people against being denied of basic human rights like freedom of speech.These immediate reason for these protests was to mourn

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This is the 50'th post on my blog. When I started to blog, I never thought that it would hold my interest for so long. But blogging is such a fun activity, that it is hard to leave it.Blogging is the second big thing after e-mail on the world wide web. When it was invented, the internet was just a boring network of geeky scientists who used it to share information. Accessing the net was expensive

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It has been five years since that dastardly act of terror which killed thousands of people in the WTC twin towers. The incident gave Bush the excuse to carry out his 'crusades' against Islamic countries taking the lives of millions of innocent civilians who have not committed a single act of terror in their lives.The main perpetrator behind 9/11 is still holed up in some cave in Afghanistan or

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Last week, I and my roomies went to tirupati, abode of Lord Venkateswara alias Balaji. Tirupati is about 150 kms from Chennai, a three hour train trip. From there on, it's a roller coaster ride up the mountain to Tirumalai full of dangerous hair-pin bends and blind turns which can be pretty scary. The view is excellent though, provided you are not a heart patient or afraid of heights.I have been

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Lyrics of the Wonderful Beatles song, Yesterday:Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far awayNow it looks as though they're here to stayOh, I believe in yesterday Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to beThere's a shadow hanging over me.Oh, I yesterday came suddenly Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't sayI said something wrong, now I long for yesterday Yesterday, love was such an

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What I saw in today's paper shocked me. There have been reports of new inclusions in the solar system for the past few weeks. Some said that the number of planets may go up to 40. So it was surprising that the International Astronomical Union decided to drop Pluto instead of including more planets. Guess they went easy on the poor school kids who would bang their heads trying to remember all the

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I absolutely dread public speaking, so much as to avoid it at all costs. But last week, inspite of my ardent protests, my lecturer forced me to agree to give a presentation on a really drab topic about Biodiversity. I had to devote all my free time sitting in front of the computer working on powerpoint.My earliest experiences with public speaking were very bad ones. Maybe its because of them,

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I just got the shock of my life. When I typed www.orkut.com in my college library Internet , I got the following message- "Request denied by SRM college" Category- "People and Dating. I proceeded to check other social sites like hi-fi and friendster and they too were blocked. Giving up on them, I tried to download exam papers for campus interview of an I.T company only to find that these were

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I got tagged by Velu.....As long as I can remember, I was a latch-key child. I came back from school to an empty home, taking the key from the neighbors. I used to hate being alone from 2 to 6 till my parents came back. The eerie silence (This was a time before cable T.V became ubiquitous), the empty rooms used to drive me crazy. I wondered why my mom had to go to work, when all my friends mom's

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The government has finally come to its senses. The ban on blogspot has been lifted. But some of us whose ISP does not support sub domain blocking will continue to be unable to access blogspot.This is a direct violation of the freedom of expression given to us by the constitution. The government should have taken some concrete steps to end terrorism after the blasts. But instead, the only response

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A few hours back, serial blasts took place in Mumbai. 7 Blasts have been reported, 5 of them in Mumbai's perpetually crowded local trains. Official figures cite the death toll as 138 but it could be far far more than that. Rail services have been stopped and many telephone networks are also not functioning. Following the bomb blasts, New Delhi has been put on red alert. Earlier today, there were

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I am a first timer in this tagging business.....so no criticizing... :-))Desired Celebrity- Elvis PresleyWhenever I am feeling low and down, I always listen to Elvis songs to pep me up. Elvis was born in 1935 and his first exposure to music was gospel music. He moved on to sing rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll, country music. He was the highest paid entertainer in the world before he reached the

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Only two more days to go. The FIFA world cup finals are just around the corner. It is the 'Les Bleus' V/s the 'Azzuris'. 194 teams, 847 matches and it all comes down to this. The winner takes all, the greatest footballing glory on earth and a chance to be in the history books for ever.I lost quite a bit of interest in the world cup after Argentina and Brazil were defeated. History was against

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CAT is supposed to be the toughest MBA entrance exam in the world. The cliche often used is "The only thing predictable about CAT is that it is unpredictable." The time given is hardly enough to do half of the quesions given and the toughest task is to pick out the really easy ones and do them leaving the difficult ones. Easier said than done.....So, when I went to give my first mock CAT last

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This has to be the most depressing news of the season. Brazil is out of the world cup. Now, who will stop Germany?

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There have been no major upsets in this world cup. Last time, France , Argentina, England and Italy were kicked out by minnows. But this time around, nothing of that sort. All the big names are still in the hunt for the biggest sporting glory ever. The Oranje team were defeated by Portugal and Ecuador is on their way home courtesy a stunner by Beckham. Argenina also survived a scare and it took a

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In my last blog, I wrote how Ronaldo had become too fat to play football. He proved me wrong. Last night, Ronaldo scored two goals in the match against Japan. More importantly, he was brilliant in his tackling and had many more accurate shots at goal than in the two previous matches. He showed that the true nature of legends lies not in always scoring goals, but in the ability to bounce back from

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No prizes for guessing who that is. It is of course, the great Brazillian footballer Ronaldo, who doesn't seem so great nowadays. In 2002 he was the most feared striker in the world. In 2006, only the opposition enjoys seeing him play. This coupled with Brazil's lacklustre performance in both the matches they have played have become a source of worry for their ardent fans like me. I know they won

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Television is getting extremely boring nowadays. The only thing watchable is soccer and that too starts in the evening. For the rest of the day however, TV watching can put you to sleep faster than any sleeping pill. Star seems to have run out of ideas. It's either another one of those unimaginative Ekta Kapoor's K-soaps or some horrible game show. Sony, Zee, Sahara are equally boring. The only

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The way things are going, the Narmada Bachao Andolan will need another andolan to save itself. Nobody takes Medha Patkar seriously anymore. People who do speak in favour of the displaced people are ruthlessly targeted, then there are the rent-a-cause celebrities who just come for the publicity.First of all, a dam will be extremely beneficial for the state of Gujarat. It means storage of excess

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My earliest memories of the Republic day parade was a weak Shankar Dayal Sharma walking at a painfully slow pace to the venue after getting out of his car. He used to struggle to stand for 2-3 hours to take the traditional salute of the armed forces. Then there was Vajpayee, with his knee problems. He literally limped his way to the Parliament costing the government millions for surgery and

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The left is getting on my nerve these days. They oppose anything done by the government which has even a slightly reformist angle to it. They organize agitations and protests, but refrain from withdrawing support to the government in the name of preventing non-secular forces from coming to power. On one hand, while Karat is stifling all the government policies, his comrade Buddhadeb in Bengal

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Exams are finally over. Yeah yeah, one is still left, but who gives a damn about 'Personality Development' anyway?These past 15-20 days were really strange. Everyone was slogging away. Even the "Kaala-akshar-Bhains-Baraabar" types had their noses buried in books or some Xerox material. Electricity bills shot up with students refusing to go to sleep. People tried innovative methods to keep sleep

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Lesson No. 1:NEVER take an elective just because the syllabus is short.After seeing the transport phenomena syllabus last sem, i took it just because all units were one-liners (not at all funny though).....No with only three more days to go, i still don't know anything in that subject. I hope I pass.......gotta go and study now....

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If the likes of Rohit Bal, JJ Valaya, Ritu Kumar, Ritu Beri were to walk down the aisles of Spencer Plaza on a crowded weekend night, they would writhe in anguish. After trying so hard to engineer wardrobe malfunctions that look genuine, they'd be surprised to find most of the wardrobes of chennaiites already look malfunctioned, albeit without the exposure.I am not saying that the dressing sense

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At last, The men have been seperated from the boys. Schumi is back to his winning ways and he proved he is no lame horse by winning the European GP yesterday.The shorter ferrari pitstop helped him to win by a comfortable margin. Even Massa got a podium finish. So both Ferrari and Schumi are now within striking distance for the top spot. I hope both of them finish at the top this time. Amen......

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Indians are born corrupt. From the numerous doping scandals to the recent Kavya Viswanaathan plagiarism case, our ability to circumvent the law is remarkable. Corruption is so deeply ingrained in the Indian psyche, that we take it from our birth to our grave. And, for the past 8 months, I have been getting the first hand experience in how corruption works in the government offices in this

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The promos and the posters of the film "Basic Instinct 2" starring Sharon Stone are being splashed all over town. The movie has already got a lot of cheap publicity because Stone apparently requested the producers to keep most of the steamy scenes they shot.My response: "Auntyjee, please cover up"How many more Botox injections and facelifts can Sharon stone endure in her quest to keep looking

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I have not logged on for the past 5 days because of my model exams. Its amazing how time just flies away when exams are going on. Anyways heres a roundup of stuff that happened this week.....Vikas escaped being burnt alive in the Meerut fire at the Victoria Park. Given his penchant for cheap exhibitions and the girls who visit them, I almost half expected him to be dead when I called him up. But

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These are the pics of the stuff we have been doing in the animal biotech labs for the last 3-4 weeks.The following visuals are highly graphic in nature. Viewer discretion in strongly recommended.

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Here is some of the stuff that happened in the department this week....* The Incumbent HOD took his first major decision after assuming office. He has switched the seating positions of boys and girls in the classrooms to prevent the students from doing "mischievous" things. God knows what he meant by that.* Animal Biotech lab technicians have moved to bigger things. After killing helpless

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The race is over......And it's disappointing. Schumi didn't even finish the race this time. And Massa was really pathetic. He didn't even last one lap. What has gone wrong with the team that won the constructors for five years? Alonso won again and he is far ahead of the competition for now. Can Schumi bounce back from what looks like the lowest point in his career so far?This rule of using the

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Our college is the only deemed university in and around chennai that is functioning normally. Rest all- Sathyabhama, Bharat, MGR are all closed down indefinitely. This fact combined with the sultry chennai weather makes the students terribly unwilling to attend the college. With attempts to start a strike and cause disruption failing, the students have turned to more radical ways drawing

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I don't know what has gone wrong with Schumacher. A person who has dominated F1 for so many years, is suddenly struggling to win even a single race. And Alonso,who just had an outside chance of winning last year is suddenly being touted as the next big thing in F1. The first two races have not been very bad for Schumi but he still failed to even make it to the podium in Malaysia. Alonso with one

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I bought the latest issue of 'Business Today' yesterday. Apart from the usual stuff about the latest happenings in the corporate world, it also carried a two page article about the ongoing deemed university-AICTE case going on in Tamilnadu.The article clearly told about the events on the night of 27’Th February in our college and also the violence the following day in the Sathyabhama College. It

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For the past one hour, I have been banging my head against the PC to do my plant biotech miniproject. And I haven’t even started on the actual project. I have just spent all this time looking for the 50 references that DPR has insisted we have to quote. And that too not just the web addresses, but the actual books and research papers. Is he out of his mind??? This is supposed to be a miniproject

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I have heard that history repeats itself, but I had no idea that it happens in such a short interval. Just when I though that things couldn't get any more worse than this, Murphy's law proved me wrong. Today morning just as I was getting ready for college, I saw a SMS from my friend "Do Din ki chutti, masti kar". It was then, that I got the news that the college buses had been stopped in Guindy

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I have not faced this question of ethics in science before. The year I did my 12'th, dissecting were banned in CBSE. Also I have never given a damn about the number of chickens or goat that were killed for me to enjoy my favorite non vegetarian dish.But on Wednesday, I came face to face with what it is like to be a murderer. I felt guilty as hell after I had to take a 10 day old chicken embryo

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The first time I understood how conservative Indians were about sex was in my 11'th grade. I was at my friends house watching the movie "Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham" with his family. There was this scene in it in which Hrithik says to Sushma Seth "Dadima, tussi bade sexy lag rahe ho", to which she replied "Abbe Chadd, sab yehi kende hai". The scene was pretty funny but I was surprised to see that as

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I absolutely love the book "The Godfather". Puzo's potrayal of power is amazing and his writing style is pure magic. So, here are some of the awesome quotes from the book and the movie that come to my memory......If there are any others you like, please add them in the comments section......"Behind every fortune there is a crime""Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer""I'll make an

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The concept of reservation on the basis of caste was introduced by Ambedkar during the framing of the constitution. It was a beautiful concept for uplifting the backward SC and STs and Ambedkar had the welfare of the country in mind while finalizing it. At the time of writing the constitution, reservation was supposed to be temporary and for only 10 years. But till date, even after 56 years,

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Just two-three weeks ago, I read the book "Disclosure" by Michael Crichton. The book, by the way topped the NYT bestsellers list for many consecutive weeks and also got remade into a blockbuster movie, even the Hindi version "Aitraaz" was a hit. I couldn't help wondering whether the book would have been such a smashing success if the plot was the other way around. Even, the author himself

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It is seldom observed that two principles seemingly perfect in their own spheres work so antagonistically towards each other. The duo of Globalization and patriotism is one such unfortunate pair. Globalization calls for a world in which borders are obsolete. No country would need to be self sufficient in everything, rather producing surplus of a few goods and then bartering of those goods with

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This was the dumbest holi I ever spent. The college was closed and the whole day I just watched TV and surfed the net. Even the last two holis in college were better. All that's left of the wild holis I used to spend with my friends back home in noida is a pleasant sense of nostalgia. Man, those were the days. The schools were closed for a week. In the preceding days, throwing water balloons at

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I don't understand the obsession of the BJP and especially Advani with Rath Yatras. Every time some attack is made on any Hindu temple or institution, the first response of Advani is to take out a Rath Yatra in an AC Rath. Accepted, the first time in 1992, it was hugely successful. Everywhere that Advani's Rath went; it attracted huge crowds and left behind a trail of destruction and communal

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Nowadays, the newspaper is full of reports about the sensex reaching new heights daily. This is very good for our economy because it indicates the confidence levels of investors (both foreign and domestic) in our economy. Though it is hard to believe, the stock market level has nothing to do directly with our economy. It is merely a weighted mean of the 30 stocks in the BSE. But the sensex is a

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Elections are coming up in May in Tamilnadu, and already Chennai is full of cut-outs, banners and party symbols. Elections are really crucial in this state when the numerous politicians in the state surface for 2-3 months and then again disappear after the counting finishes. For the first time in maybe 15-20 years, it looks too close to call and predicting the winning side looks tough.If Vaiko

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Ever since I started listening to English songs, I have been a fan (fanatic would be a better word) of Elvis Presley. There are a lot of artists who achieve stardom in their careers, but few achieve the iconic status that Elvis had. He created a whole genre of music i.e. Rock and Roll. He rose from modest beginnings to dizzying heights in the music industry. He was the highest paid entertainer in

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Last week, the president of the united states George W. Bush came to India on a four day visit. The Bush visit received contrasting responses from the Indian society. One section of the society (mostly comprising of the upper middle class and the affluent class) saw the bush visit as a major political achievement, while another section (the communists and the socialists) was organizing the

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Though I am an unabashed supporter of capitalism and business with a sole motive of profit, education is one industry which I cannot support this notion. An educational institution should not be operated with only money making and profit in mind. It has a bigger role to play in nation building. Education is the only tool by which India's poor can redeem themselves and gain respectability in this

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