Save our Big Cats

Akhila Satchidanandam 
                                                                                 
One of the popular talks today on news channels, class rooms and enviro clubs is the wildlife conservation issue – particularly, Tigers in Asia, the reason being its vanishing from existence. At the beginning of 20th century, Bengal Tiger population in India was 40,000. In 1972, however this figure diminished to a mere [...]

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MARITIME SECURITY AND INDIA

Rahul Satapathy
India, a country with 7500 kms coastline and 10,000 nautical miles maritime boundary; a vast exposure to the outside world with intriguing neighbours keen enough for confrontations add to this concern. Looking at our neighbourhood Bangladesh, Srilanka, China, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia in the east and Pakistan and middle eastern countries to the west [...]

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GOD, A MYTH???

Venkat Raman
Few days back, an old friend of mine, who had brought the book God Delusion by Richard Dawkins went gung ho over the book and started to employ all the intellectual gyan he gained from the book to belittle me and my spiritual notions. As expected, I lost the battle of the brains while [...]

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Vandana finds her parents – Thanks to Indian Army

 Akhila Satchidanandam
A two-and-a-half year old girl, Vandana fell into a 180 meter borewell pit left open, at Tehara a village in Agra. The accident took place on Tuesday evening. When all measures taken by the neighbours to rescue the kid failed, an army rescue team arrived at the venue and dug a pit parallel to [...]

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Californian Musings – Final Part

Ram Kumar G
Our shopping sight-seeing outing was followed by 5 days of office work.
The following Sunday we were to fly back to Bangalore hence we just had Saturday for us to see more of the place perhaps wrap up with more shopping.
After debating whether to go to SFO City downtown or the ubiquitous China Town [...]

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WHAT DO I OWN

Subbby
Where would I go and search them on this earth?
The GOD and GODDESS who gave me birth
Pinning me alone they flew to disappear,
Wish I could find them cry my tear.
I look at the moon for a while,
He turns down my stare with a smile.
Says he, that’s your fate, oh friend!
Why was I born? I repent.
Life [...]

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THE QUEST

Sharath Sharathi Subramonian
Slowly as I swoop down the horizon,
Will this path yield me there? Remains my question.
Is this the end of the lane? Where I proceed?
Or, will there be other paths to tread?
There is this quest for supremacy,
that blooms in me, a curiosity to experience it.
Spurs against me; to fight against
All barricades that lie ahead [...]

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Forget Tibet, Free Kashmir!

Vivek Bala
A lot of hue and cry has been raised over the protests by Tibetans against the autocratic rule of the Chinese. Human rights violation they say. A lot of Tibetan refugees in India are taking to the streets demanding action against China, asking the Indian Govt to intervene. Our good old take-law-into-our-own-hands media is [...]

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MS Dhoni and the seniors of Indian Cricket

After the controversial selection of the Indian Cricket Team for the recently concluded ODI series down under, questions were raised about Dhoni’s handling of seniors. Now that the team has truimphed and stumped many, the young captain has openly ‘defended’ selecting new faces ahead of the traditional war horses like Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid. [...]

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The New Parameters Of Economy-I

Mihirjha
If you happen to go through the magazines these days and accidentally come across a news related to Mr. Chidambaram, you might find his pen or specs or several other things missing but a placard in his hands with a text in bold letters, “India’s GDP is 8.8″ shall never be missing. The Indians on [...]

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