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Rajiv Malhotra at Bhabha Atomic Research Center: Why Indian Civilizational challenge to Western Universalism is required
Rajeev Malhotra’s work on Indic civilization is unique and without parallel. He has written two books – Breaking India and Being Different. And in the latter specifically, he discusses how...
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Indian Village that plants 111 trees for ever newborn Girl Child, has a website and an anthem!
Rajasthan is a desert. Socially, in that state, girl child has not been treated well, as many parents have aborted the girl child. In such a social and ecological scenario,...
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Improved Hiring Forecast in India as 94% businesses plan on hiring in 2013
India Inc is hiring in 2013. The confidence index seems to be stable as of now. Although it has slipped 4 points since October, but the Regus global business confidence...
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Leukemia patients pay 20 times in US vs India; India’s Drug Patents “Activism” and its impacts
Cancer in India is growing fast and drugs aren’t there. Ninety percent of children with leukemia in high-income countries will be cured, but 90 percent of those with that disease...
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I am Deaf, but not Dumb! – Daily fight of 18 mn deaf people in India that is mentally stone deaf
India has 18 million deaf people but only 250 practicing sign language interpreters! There are no TTY (Text Telephone) in the country, of course no deaf news, no closed captioning,...
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Warren Buffett bets big on selling Insurance online in India
As Indian masses come online, Warren Buffett, the master of traditional businesses, is betting big on Indian consumers. Ironically. He wants to sell insurance online. Currently, Berkshire India sells motor,...
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Sikh Genocide 1984: There is NO way anything will ever happen to Jagdish Tytler
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act” – George Orwell In September 1999, Dr. Manmohan Singh was addressing the Press Club of India as a...
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Wikileaks and the Shocking Picture of Corruption and Betrayal by Congress and the Gandhi Family!
This past week has been a treasure trove of Wikileaks information for Indian politics. And interestingly, it leaves the “First Family” of Indian politics – the Gandhis – in a...
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ThinkIndia Speech of Modi and his vision: We finally have a Visionary and a Doer in our midst!
This conference appearance and interaction of and with Narendra Modi is special. In this, the attempt of the organizers was to discuss substantive stuff and not keep harping on the...
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Business of Looking Good: How Beauty Industry is rising in India
India’s Salon and Spa industry is growing at 33% annually these days. Most of it is unorganized, but with more and more investment into the organized sector, their piece of...
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IIT-B students find their Professors are incompetent and boring!
Students at IIT-B (Bombay), Mumbai are saying that the professors at the Institute are not serious or worse incompetent! Around 88% Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) students claim that they...
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Rajiv Gandhi played a middleman for Saab-Scania aircraft deal in 1970s
By all counts, Rajiv Gandhi was one of the most horrendous choice for India’s Prime Minister. He oversaw by far one of the most terrible massacres, and started the mess...
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The Indian Job Program Scam: Plunder under MNREGA
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is the flagship rural employment program of Dr. Manmohan Singh’s Congress Government. It is also the greatest mechanism created in India to suck...
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India heading to a massive water disaster!
India has 18% of the world’s population, 2.6% of landmass and 4% of renewable water reserves. This is something that we need to be acutely aware of. And on top...
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Central Bureau of India to honor the founding father of ISI on its Golden Jubilee celebrations
Central Bureau of Investigation has approached the External Affairs Ministry with an unusual request. It wants to facilitate the visit of a Pakistani family to India. It is the family...
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Destroying National Fabric: Govt mulls Fast Track courts to save “innocent Muslim youth” from jail
A very dangerous move is afoot. CPI leader A B Bardhan went to Home Minister with a 14-point memorandum to create fast-track courts to expedite trial of “innocent” Muslim youth accused of...
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Finally, Digvijaya Singh speaks the truth
The whole country knows. The world knows. But somehow the Congress Party has been pretending to not know it. But now the Joker of the Pack – Digvijaya Singh –...
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Lady who is responsible for mobilizing 85% of eye and 95% of skin donations in Mumbai from her community
Getting eyeballs, goal of many in the online businesses, has a completely different meaning for an incredible person in Mumbai – Kusum Vira. She collects eyeball donations from her community...
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Katju vs Dr. Swamy legal debate on Sanjay Dutt case: Honestly, was Katju really a Judge??!
I know many people do not like Arnab Goswami, but he does come equipped with information and does his research. At least that is something that you cannot take away...
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What was happening in India and the Rest of the World at the time of Mahabharat and Ramayan
There has been a concerted effort since the times of British to discredit India’s history and to brush it aside. The scriptures which are historic in nature in many ways...
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Google Play movies now available in India; but pricing sucks!
You can now rent movies in Indian and Mexico via Google Play. Either through web or through your smartphone. Interestingly, this coincides with the launch of Nexus 7 in India....
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Indian Ad firm employees fired over creative showing tied up women in the car
JW Thompson’s WPP unit in India had created some cartoonish drawings as part of a creative exercise. These drawings showed women tied up in the back of a car. It has...
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Israeli Arms firm Rafael uses Bollywood Dance Number to sell Arms in India
Weapon Firms the world over are trying to sell their wares to India. French, American, Russian and Israeli are on the fore-front. Most use bribery and corruption in India to...
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How a Construction Laborer got into IIT thanks to the Reservation Policy
Does the reservation policy in India benefit anyone? Personally, I think the reservation policy is flawed. Yet, one does find that some genuine people do get benefited… big time. And,...
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Rise of Social Media Use in India
India’s internet use is undergoing a change as the Smartphone revolution takes over. Every urban youth is using a smartphone today and with it is coming the access to the...
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Something fishy about Delhi Gangrape Ram Singh’s so-called Suicide
How could the main accused in the high profile Gangrape case- Ram Singh – commit suicide in the highest security prison in the nation – the Tihar Jail? It surely...
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SRK to Fareed Zakaria on why Indian Muslims are different; misses the main point
Fareed Zakaria, anchor of one of the most popular show on Geo-politics, interviews Shahrukh Khan, the Indian actor in this video – while he is promoting “My Name is Khan”....
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Dr. Abdul Kalam to join IIM-Shillong as Visiting Faculty
Ex-President, APJ Abdul Kalam is taking on a new assignment. He is going to teach a course at the Indian Institute of Management-Shillong. It is titled “Societal transformation bio-technology and its...
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How has Parle-G managed to keep their price so low despite the steep inflation in India?
If you have grown up in India in the last 40 years, the chances are that one of your favorite snacks is the Parle-G. But the prices of Parle-G have...
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India #1 traffic source for Quora ahead of US now!
Quora is a great site for Question and Answers. People ask interesting questions and there are experts who come out with very details and informative answers. And it seems that...
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Kashmir Issue: A very interesting, insightful discussion
Very few fora and still fewer analysts have ever talked of Kashmir in an intelligent way. I feel one of the very very few is Barrister Bashani. He is a...
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Hitler, Frankenstein, Billykid, Carter, and Kennedy running for State Elections in Meghalaya in India!
As if the elections in India aren’t already enough of a joke, the candidates in Meghalayas State polls have taken on interesting names this year. Here are some of them:...
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Lessons from Expose on Kargil by Gen. Shahid Aziz: How Pakistan evaluates Indians
This video has the discussion with a lot of people, including Gen Shahid Aziz, who has written a book on Kargil. The discussion here brings out two interesting things: 1....
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Is it safe for a single American woman to travel in India?
Due to the recent spate in rapes in India, there has come about a question mark on how safe women are in India when they travel alone. Specifically for an...