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Obama’s worrisome idioms: In reaction to his Berlin speech

Published July 26th, 2008 in Human rights, General Interest, USA and Current Affaires. 0 Comments

I was impressed with Obama’s talk on race during the primaries – particularly his ability to deal with difficult issues. What he did with race, he does not with international relations
Obama’s ability to draw attention across the globe is incredible. There are even posters of him with a local political leader in many […]

India: Parliament & Legislative Assemblies search engine

Published February 21st, 2008 in Social Policy, India, General Interest, Governance, Useful Links (by topics) and Current Affaires. 0 Comments

Search websites of Indian Parliament and most legislative assemblies in one go

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@import url(http://www.google.com/cse/api/overlay.css);

function OnLoad() {
new CSEOverlay(”007669040823326618223:_jumxws5hhs”,
document.getElementById(”searchbox_007669040823326618223:_jumxws5hhs”),
[…]

Famous talk by Steve Jobs at Stanford: Webcast

Published May 19th, 2007 in General Interest and Video & Audio online. 0 Comments

This famous talk by Steve Jobs had circulated a lot in e-mails among my friends in India. For the first time I saw the video and it was better than the e-mail. The video from You Tube is embedded below.

How to unsubscribe from Syracuse University mailing lists

Published March 7th, 2007 in General Interest. 0 Comments

For some odd reason, the Syracuse University mailing lists have a complicated system for unsubscribing. It took me months to figure it out. Though the system is simple, the user manual is practically unreadable. In case you’re looking to unsubscribe yourself from any mailing list of SU, this is how:
No matter which mailing list you […]

What Indians search for

Published January 23rd, 2007 in General Interest. 0 Comments

I was looking for some of the most common terms that people search for online. Not surprisingly cinema and glamour made it right to the top followed closely by sports (see lists below). What did surprise me was “NDTV” was one of the ten most searched words by Indians. There were also a couple of […]

Microwave and time management

Published November 23rd, 2006 in General Interest. 0 Comments

The variable notion of time has been doing rounds in the social sciences for some time now. Chronologically a minute is a minute for all of us – but under circumstances the minute may seem like a long time. In fact, I did not realise how long a minute is until I started using the […]