Tweet They carried out bomb blasts in Mumbai. We rebounded and rebuilt the city. They attacked our parliament, and we stopped juust short of eliminating our neighbor state. They carried out bomb blasts in Delhi, and we kept going on. Today they crossed the line. We have had enough. Our hearts go out to...
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Tweet For all the hoopla over Indian navy’s new role as savior of the needy and helpless, take this. The Navy’s decision to destroy a pirate mother ship is now being questioned by a Thai national who says the ship sunk last Tuesday in the Gulf of Aden actually belonged to him. Fourteen...
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Tweet Today is a historic day for America. The country just elected it’s first Black president after 43 White ones. The US has come of age. Leave alone the glass ceiling, the steel door has been blasted open. Makes me think of India. When will we Indians rise through petty barriers to appoint leaders...
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Tweet “Eighty heads of state and government will grace the Beijing Olympics in August but PM Manmohan Singh will not be among them.” Instead, the Chinese people, being as smart as they are, have invited the real ruler of India. The Madam. They did not invite the prime minister or the president, but...
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Tweet I occasionally come across stories/articles that send shivers down the spine This one shook me to the bones. Literally. This was about the awful hideous practice of illegal trade of a unique kind - of bones. Of real people. These people steal corpses from graves, and from cremation grounds. They then sell their...
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Tweet Sadda Vicky… are baba apna Vikram Pandit. You don’t know him? He just became the CEO of Citi Group, known in Industry circles affectionately as Shiti Group. Another Indian does the country proud! haha…its funny when the media just jumps in on the achievements of Indians wherever they are. But then, at least...
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Tweet Back in the days when i was an 8th grader, we used to play cricket, have little parties, watch tv, and all that boring stuff. Apparently, that is passe now… An 8th standard kid(yes that would be about 13 years old) in a Gurgaon school shot to death a classmate. In cold blood...
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Tweet I read a touching post yesterday by a sister remembering her brother who died fighting terrorists in Kashmir. “J&K: 2 majors, 9 infiltrators killed How many times have you and I read headlines like these in the last so many years and not given it a second thought? It seems like there is...
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Tweet First there was Chak De! India, then that fantastic Asia cup victory by the Indian men’s hockey team, then the protests by players anguished at how their outstanding work got completely overshadowed by the cricketers who got rewarded handsomely for their world cup win. Now take this. Haryana government is setting up hockey...
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Tweet On occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, which is being marked as the International Day of Non Violence by the United Nations this year, Sonia Gandhi today addressed the UN General Assembly. Normally UN addresses are made by heads of state. So we’re guessing that she must be the prime minister of India. Or at...
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Tweet By now everybody knows the series of events. India made 157/5. Pakistan started the chase badly..and it looked like India were all set. But then Misbah started doing his thing, and brought Pakistan so agonizingly close to the trophy. But then he got ambitious, and that cheeky shot doubled the heartbeats of a...
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Tweet India through to the finals of the inaugural Twenty20 cricket world cup, being held in South Africa. Yuvraj Singh once again blasting the aussie bowlers out of the park, was instrumental in the win. View a video of the highlights here Some of the aspects that stuck out to us: 1. Given...
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