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Emotions

Kissing: Exploring The Intimate Act of Love

Kissing is an intimate act that has always held great significance for lovers. We in India had discussed kissing in our scriptures and also the amazing Vatsayana – the sex scholar – had documented 30 different types of kisses [http://www.dating360.info/the-kama-sutra-over-30-types-of-kisses/] in his treatise Kamasutra. One wonders if a

Desh Kapoor

15 Jul 15 4 min read

Society

History of Lipstick: Prostitution, Sexuality and its Popular Acceptance

Lipsticks of all colors are commonplace these days. No one cares when someone wears it on her. But not so long ago there was a time when wearing of lipstick signaled the wearer was a prostitute! In fact, in 1770, British law was proposed in the Parliament that would annul

Desh Kapoor

14 Jul 15 3 min read

Relationships

Do Robotic Pet Dogs Have Souls?

Hideko Mori (L) and her sister Yasuko watch their robot pet AIBO playing at Hideko’s home in Tokyo ©Toshifumi Kitamura (AFP) {Courtesy: Daily Mail]Japanese these days are keeping Robotic pet dogs. These pets stay with them and also become part of their lives. These are no ordinary pets.

Desh Kapoor

27 Feb 15 5 min read

History

Reminiscing the Last Days of Alcatraz 50 years after it closed

It has now been 50 years since it closed. Alcatraz, the legendary prison in California, remains etched in every person’s mind who has seen it once. Only 3 people ever escaped that place. No one knows if they ever made it to the other side of the bay.. on

Desh Kapoor

01 Apr 13 2 min read

Education

Professors say students of Online courses should not get official college credits

Online Educational degree and non-degree courses offering is one of the fastest growing trend around the world, specifically in the US. For example, you can check out some of the courses from the top Schools in the US here:University of California – Berkeley [http://webcast.berkeley.edu/], Johns Hopkins University

Desh Kapoor

24 Mar 13 3 min read

Health & Medicine

Scientists transform Skin Cells into Heart Cells to create “Disease in a Dish”!

Researchers at John Hopkins have taken skin cells of some of the patients and transformed those cells into Heart cells with the ARVD/C disease symptoms. > Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in California have created a laboratory-grown cell model of an

Desh Kapoor

18 Feb 13 2 min read

Environment

San Francisco on way to become a “Zero Waste City”

Some stories make your day! This is one such. San Francisco is trying to become the first city with zero waste. By requiring residents and businesses to separate compostable items such as food scraps, as well as recyclable items. Here is a report on how the city has already reduced

Desh Kapoor

25 Jan 13 2 min read

Spirituality

Osho on Krishnamurti: His Death and His Work

When Jiddu Krishnamurti died, Osho expressed his thoughts on him as a being and his work. Its relevance, its longevity and its usefulness. It is worth reading. The discussion has been called “Death of the mystic, J. Krishnamurti” What Osho said about J. Krishnamurti and his work on his death

Desh Kapoor

07 Jan 13 7 min read

United States of America

The Immigrant Advantage: What Rest of America can learn from the fresh Immigrants’ cultures for Longer and Happier lives

US is an immigrant nation. Although lately there has been xenophobia towards Hispanics specifically from the religious and political right. Here is an interesting conversation which takes a peek into the lives of immigrants and see what can be learnt from these cultures. Journalist Claudia Kolker has written a book

Desh Kapoor

03 Jan 13 6 min read

Creative

Ravi goes to Shankar…. Sitar goes silent

Ravi Shankar is no more. He passed away at the age of 92. Last Thursday he underwent heart valve replacement surgery at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, San Diego, California [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.84,-117.276944444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=32.84,-117.

Desh Kapoor

12 Dec 12 3 min read

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