Posts under ‘International’

….cute, but slightly premature.  After all, he was only in office for 11 odd days when the nominations closed !
Great intentions, great promise of a better tomorrow …. but delivery would be nice !
It was fun being on twitter yesterday – pithy one liners flew across the length and breadth of the world -  140 [...]

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Shiva . Mahadeva. Shankara. The greatest of all Gods. The God who is beyond Space and Time. The God other Gods worship and venerate. Those who dont’ understand call him the Destroyer. But, he isn’t. He ends the Universe at the end of time so that life can start again. While he may not be [...]

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After a few weeks of being immersed in Disaster Risk Reduction – thanks to the documentary, Farmer Suicides and the way out – thanks to our Marathi feature film “Jhing Chik Jhing”, and politics & elections – thanks to the elections; I am back to my normal reading. (disclaimer: my normal and other people’s normal [...]

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The nationalization buzz – seems to be growing. i seem to be picking up the ‘n’ word everywhere i turn.
when banks or companies collapse due to mismanagement and tax payers money is used to bail them out, then the tax payer gets to own that part of the company. The Government essentially represents the [...]

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Batman is possibly one of the most fascinating characters in fiction. His origin is universal – he could be anyone anywhere who witnessed his parents being murdered and swore that if it possible no one else will suffer his losses- he could be in any time period and still work. And, there is no deux [...]

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.. the most powerful leaders of the most powerful nations, met to discuss the Global Food Crisis. and they of course had cheese — it was part of the 6th course — of 8 courses..
You would think that in the modern world, it would be possible for 8 leaders of 8 nations (even 16 [...]

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I have been watching images on various news channels showing the devastation left behind by Katrina.
I have been following Maitri’s blog on the more personalised aspect of surviving Katrina.
And one thing struck me – however developed you may be, how ever well trained your response teams may be, when it comes to dealing with Nature’s [...]

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via Zest Alternative, a story from the New Scientist on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki . Based on new research by two historians – Peter Kuznick & Mark Selden – the article is a chilling read.
New studies of the US, Japanese and Soviet diplomatic archives suggest that Truman’s main motive was to limit [...]

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… says the Chief of the British Police, on his men shooting dead an unarmed Brazilian, in London.
I was talking to Bonti on mail in the UK, and basically asking her on how she and her family were after the bombings. She was fine, having missed the bombings by about 10 minutes, but she wrote [...]

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The last week has seen the relative calm that the world saw after 9-11 get shattered. Terrorism has reared its ugly head bringing death and destruction to innocents.
So long as the terrorism is in far away Kashmir or the North East (where is that) – or even in Iraq, it is an event happening outside [...]

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