If there is an Indian winning an International award anywhere there is generally a hoopla about it, or at least online. So when I read the news recently that Dr.Binayak Sen was awarded the highest international honour in Global Health and Human Rights, the Jonathan Mann Award for 2008 by the Global Heath Council(link), I [...]
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I hate spring. There, I’ve said it. The unthinkable. The ‘wonderful’ season that follows a mournful winter. It sucks, badly, for me. And the reason I know it is not because of any Spring festival or the beautiful flowers blooming everywhere or the fact that we now have sunrise at 5:15am (yes, it is not [...]
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To paraphrase the Mastercard ad:
Cost of a Sumeet mixie fitted with a motor to accept US voltages – $150.00
Cost of transformer to run said mixie in the UK – £70.00
Delight in pigging out on home-made adai’s – Priceless!!
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I am no gamer. Although I pretend to be a serious coder from time to time for professional reasons, gaming has never been one of my interests. The closest I come to playing games is Mah-Jong on my Vista (I had no choice, people!) laptop. Ok, maybe I should just keep some things to myself. [...]
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I recently picked up Memoirs of a Geisha from a friend’s place, a rather ‘old’ book by now, I know. The novel is a brilliantly written first-person account of the life of a giesha, Nitta Sayuri or Chiyo, written by a guy(Arthur Golden) from Tennessee, USA of all places.
The book was a fascinating [...]
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