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LetsDiscuss: OBAMA AND INDIA: NO ROOM FOR APPREHENSION NOW

During the last month or so, President Barack Obama has taken some significant steps that, viewed in totality, should make India more than happy.
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Health: Buy one trouble, get one free

Parliament Committee on Health and Family Welfare MP's want that tobacco companies start giving vouchers for free cancer check ups inside every cigarette pack.
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Miscellaneous: Sex in sanctum sanctorum of Kancheepuram temple

A 36-year old priest of the Machaesa Perumal Temple in the pilgrim town of Kancheepuram has been arrested for having sex with women inside the sanctum sanctorum.
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Miscellaneous: After 759 years, Boston boy returns as Rimpoche

After 759 years, Jigme Wangchuk, an 11-year-old boy based in Boston, has been enthroned near Darjeeling as the first reincarnation of His Holiness Gyalwa Lorepa.
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IndiaShining: MAYAWATI'S MEMORIALS MARK EPOCHAL CHANGE

Mayawati is being criticised for constructing dalit memorials and putting up her statues. Is there really no merit in what she is doing at all? Has she actually lost it, as seems to be the general opinion among ordinary upper caste and non-dalit Indians?
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Masti: RAHUL, VARUN AND THE POLITICS OF HATE

Yesterday, Varun Gandhi ran into his estranged cousins and others at a function. This is what transpired at that off-the-record, "mythical" gathering:
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Movies: AR RAHMAN, THE WORLD IS YOUR OSCAR NOW


Slumdog Millionaire is the triumph is of Allah Rakha Rahman. He is perhaps the greatest ever musician India has produced, the Tansen of modern India, may be more than that. His music has a transcendental quality that comes from a deep personal connect with God. The two Oscars that he got today within 10 minutes is no more than a just recognition of his work, a recognition that should have come long back.
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News: ELECTIONS 2009: SANGH PARIVAR OR CONG FAMILY?


The largest democracy in the world is soon going to enable Indians to elect whoever they want to send to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament. Hopefully it will be their vote and not political machinations that will decide the next lot of politicians who will rule India. CNN-IBN has kicked off the prediction game with an extensive nation wide poll...
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IndiaShining: VALENTINE'S DAY: IT'S CHADDI VS LANGOT!


This is imagination going wild pink. A fast growing group of urban women have decided to send their 'chaddis' (panties), only pink ones if you please, to Pramod Muthalik's Ram Sainiks (Soldiers of Ram) in Bangalore. This is their idea of sending 'love' to the self-proclaimed protectors of Indian culture on Valentine's Day!
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IndiaShining: VALENTINE'S DAY: IT'S CHADDI VS LANGOT!


This is imagination going wild pink. A fast growing group of urban women have decided to send their 'chaddis' (panties), only pink ones if you please, to Pramod Muthalik's Ram Sainiks (Soldiers of Ram) in Bangalore. This is their idea of sending 'love' to the self-proclaimed protectors of Indian culture on Valentine's Day!
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Miscellaneous: OBAMA: BORN TO BE PRESIDENT


Barack Obama has been US President for under 10 days. But, watching him go about his brand new job, one that his predecessor always looked weighed down by, it appears as if he has been in the Oval Office for a long time and that the job sits lightly on his shoulder.
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News: PRESIDENT 'BLESSED' OBAMA, THIS IS OUR MOMENT


"People of the world, this is our moment, this is our time." When Obama electrified people around the world with these words in Berlin on July 24, 2008, not many would have imagined that he would be sworn in as US President in front of a record two million people on January 2009. At this defining moment, there more than high expectation and hope...
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LetsDiscuss: MAYTAS: TRUTH INVERTED; GREED IS KING


Maytas is 'Satyam' (Truth) written backwards. It is common knowledge that when greed takes grip, the first casualty has to be truth. No one ever admits that, except to friends bathing in the same 'hamam'. But, the signs begin to show. Maytas, the name of the company set up by Raju in the name of his son for his forays into real estate, construction, infrastructure etc, represents that unconscious slip. And today, Ramalinga Raju's empire based almost solely on untruth has all but collapsed and he is sharing a prison cell and an Indian-style WC there with ordinary, petty criminals.
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LetsDiscuss: INDIA SALUTES AND BOOTS ITS UNKNOWN SOLDIER


Ordinary Indians have saluted the Unknown Soldier by choosing him as the Indian of the Year. But the hostile attitude of India's bureaucrats to India's military and the indifference, even indulgence, of its political leaders to this dysfunctional, even destructive, systemic aberration, even corruption, has been giving him the boot...
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