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9010 Things That Make Me Proud To Be Indian, 10 That Make Me Sad
India, my wise friend wrote the other day, is a land of contrasts and contradictions. It is a land of peace and war, of love and hate and many other emotions. You can spend a lifetime and be none the wiser in trying to understand India’s vast...
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85Religion And Politics In India
Some years back, we were living in a mofussil town, very close to the geographical heart of India. Within under- arm stone-throwing distance of our house, was a temple. It was small and unprepossessing, bereft of the usual trappings of religious...
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81Around Kandbari -Triund at 10,000 feet- A Photo Essay
This is the fourth in the series on Kandbari, a small hamlet at the base of the Dhauladhar Mountain Range in Himachal Pradesh in India. Triund is a grassy meadow perched at an altitude of 3,000 metres (~...
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81Sex in the Animal Kingdom or Are Humans the Sexiest of All Species?
Let me be honest. I see no option but to turn to the subject of sex (what else?) to increase readership. Previous attempts at humour, religion, politics, birding, nature and what have you, have met with little...
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80The Hillfolk of Kandbari-A Photo Essay
If I had to choose two words that define the ethos of the hillfolk I met during my brief sojourn in Kandbari, they would be simple and contented. This is the fifth in a series of ten Hubs on a holiday in Kandbari. Beauty abounds in the hills of...
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77Capturing and Selling Ideas
Have you ever thought of the many world-beating ideas that floated through your head , only to get lost downstream somewhere? Ideas that may have turned you into a billionaire? They are here and then gone. In an instant. And most of them come at...
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79Climate Change and Global Warming - What They Mean for Us
Not so long ago, just 50 years to be exact, my father was posted at Poona, then a small Army cantonment town four hours away from the mind-numbing madness of the big city of Bombay. Poona is now Pune and...
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78Mimicking Nature
Have you ever wondered how a gecko stays upside down on the ceiling or why a fly seems to know well in advance when you are trying to swat it? Or why locusts that fly in swarms of millions don’t crash into each other? Or how bats are able to fly...
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76Kandbari Views-A Pictorial Essay
This is the third in a series on a holiday in Kandbari, in the North Indian state of Himachal Pradesh (region of snowy mountains). Kandbari lies at 1200 metres (4000 feet) in the foothills of the Dhauladhar...
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