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June 14, 2015

SALMAN RUSHDIE AND THE HUNTED COWBOY: Why is it important to run in our time?

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Published on June 14, 2015 06:13

June 4, 2015

CUT DOWN TREES AND FORGET ABOUT NATURE

Nature has a way of doing away with its problems. Man has looked at these ways with extreme disapproval, calling it disaster, natural calamity, etc.  
It's been the way in English language, or perhaps most of the languages in the world, to address the totality of humanness as 'human nature'. We often say, it's my nature or it's natural for me to do this or that. Are we justifying ourselves using this term, as if being in harmony with our true nature is somehow rewarding? 
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Published on June 04, 2015 08:23

June 1, 2015

Why Are Schools Less Important Than a Sunday Afternoon?

One of the most widely attended social movements take place in the month of June, every year, in Kerala, the south Indian state. The participants of this social movement are usually children. This social movement is called Opening of Schools.
Summer vacation would end by the first week of June, normally. This year it ends on 31 May. This leads to the opening of schools on 1 June itself. June is also the month of a captivating season in India, the southwestern Monsoon.
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Published on June 01, 2015 17:00

May 29, 2015

VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE: Why Is Madness More Important Than Normality

A woman named Veronika decides to end her life. She carries out her decision. Veronika didn’t die. Her life changes forever.
Paulo Coelho’s inspiration has provided the world several mind-opening and uniquely appealing books, like The Alchemist and The Fifth Mountain. [I only included the names of two that touched my life; there are many more that readers like me might have felt close to their heart].
Someone saved Veronika and took her to a psychiatric institution named Villete. At the insti...
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Published on May 29, 2015 21:00

May 27, 2015

THE EINSTEIN ELEMENT: Seeing Greatness the Indian Way

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Published on May 27, 2015 06:23

May 22, 2015

SCION OF IKSHVAKU: Can Amish Write a New Story for Ram?

Who is Ram? The young prince who ruled Ayodhya and conquered Lanka? The warrior who defeated Raavan, the ruler of Lanka and saved his wife from danger? The legend of Rama is as old as the Indian civilization itself. Evidences are scarce to prove the earthly existence of this legendary king. However, the Hindus believe that Ram is one of the avatars of Lord Vishnu, the Hindu god of sustenance. Some scholars believe that Ram was a historical figure and not just a mythological character.
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Published on May 22, 2015 05:34

May 20, 2015

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Three Major Elements Of Higher Consciousness

Harper Lee. Image Courtesy: Biography.comIn 1960, a thirty-four year old woman got a chance to publish her second novel. She was still in very much good relationship with her hope to be a published author. Oh yes, she had another volume, her first work, sitting in a closet in her house. Someone had suggested her after reading that first piece of her creative journey that she must pen down another story, perhaps she should even trace the back-story of the original that she had just submitted....
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Published on May 20, 2015 10:42

May 4, 2015

SYRIA CRISIS: How Smuggling May Help Academics

In1997, a Taliban commander by the name Abdul Wahed proclaimed that the enormous Buddha statues of Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan would be demolished. This was even before he could call his mission of entering the valley a reality. However, the terrorist organization finally enacted their ominous promise. In 2001, dynamites and anti-aircraft missiles fired their might towards the silent statues, the witnesses of many centuries of human activity and culture, and d...
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Published on May 04, 2015 09:30

April 29, 2015

PLAYING IT MY WAY: Sachin Tendulkar’s Autobiography

Playing It My Way is a book that insists on satisfying every bit of expectation the reader may possess regarding a book by Sachin Tendulkar, India’s cricketing legend. Playing It My Way has 28 chapters. The appendix that follows contains Sachin’s farewell speech with which he damped the eyes of millions of his fans after the final match of his career, on 16 November 2013 at the Wankhede Stadium. The publisher is Hodder and Stoughton and the revenue from the selling of the book (actually the a...
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Published on April 29, 2015 02:03

April 18, 2015

FAST AND FURIOUS 7: The Shortest Film Review


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Published on April 18, 2015 09:21