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A change in outlook?
In his latest post, refering to the rebranding of terrorism as man-caused disasters Aristotle The Geek writes On 9/11/01, some man-caused-disaster-causing-men caused a man-caused disaster It took me a...
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Novels vs movies
Via The New Clarion, here is a fascinating review of a scene from the Atlas Shrugged movie. Ronald Pisaturo compares the original scene from the novel with the movie adaptation. I would never have been...
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Moving on
Discussions on the internet can be very entertaining (and distracting). The comment thread on this post on Raymond Chen’s blog is a case in point. A certain commenter makes a valid point criticizing a...
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Validating theories
After more than a month of architectural redesign in the software product I am working on, I reluctantly took a couple of days off to attend a cousin’s wedding (which was interesting enough to merit a...
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Questioning the “markets”– part 1
Over the past three and a half years, I have had a ring-side view of the finance industry. I have been involved in developing a market risk-management software product targeted at banks. This product...
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When a person becomes a statistic
I woke up today morning, picked up the newspaper and read the headline “Yet another Andhraite shot in US” or something like that. I browsed through the other headlines before reading the report itself....
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Sad songs
I was listening to the song “Lagi aaj sawan ki…” and wondered why I like sad songs inspite of the fact that I get over things quickly and so, sadness for me is hardly a persistent emotion. Thinking...
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Death
My uncle died today after having seemingly recovered from a fall, with less than a week left for his son’s planned marriage. I didn’t know what to say when I went to visit my cousin. Instead, I spent a...
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Rape – and what we can do about it
tl; dr version: Learn to defend ourselves. Another rape. Nationwide outrage. Full page newspaper reports. Condemnations by celebrities and ministers. Promises of justice. Candle marches. Protests....
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Ijazat
न थी इजाज़त, जो देखने की, कुछ ऐसे सपने सजाये मैंने, जो चाहता हूँ, भुला दूं उनको, बिना इजाज़त सता रहे हैं न थी इजाज़त, जो बोलने की, वह बात दिल में बसाई मैंने, जो चाहता हूँ, निकालूँ उस्को, बिना इजाज़त...
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