Do you want to SMS a friend in a hurry who is in US or India or Malaysia or Pakistan or maybe even Canada?

Due to a quirk of fate, I had joined this not so prestigious college. It was depressing for someone that young.

Those were very tough days for a young guy in his first job like me. Bosses in India are not always taught in the best of schools or told how to behave around men.

I was having a long debate about Science and Spirituality on Facebook.

असत्य की पहचान में ही असत्य से मुक्ति है

We all avoid pain. Which doesn't mean that we can avoid it. We just avoid the pain we haven't experienced for the pain that we have.

Beauty is about personality, they say now. Participants in one study say its:

• 70% about being confident
• 67% having good looks
• 47% being stylish

The situation in Kashmir is strongly contested, historically misrepresented and ideologically argued.

India finally has a currency symbol for the Rupee. Five symbols were shortlisted.

A gag order is coming in within the IT industry in India at least.

Paul, the Octopus is on a tear. He has had a near perfect record of predicting this year's World Cup soccer matches.

Ooops.. our scientists just discovered that we have a defective Universe. It has a hole! A BIG one! One billion light years across.

To understand how blatant bigotry is perpetuated in the name of "Secularism", here is a news article which does a great job.

The concept of God is so heavily bastardized around the world, that it has become completely nonsensical to even speak about it in a logically coherent manner.

In a recent ruling, the Saudi clerics had declared that women workers cannot work with men.

Interestingly, Kamla Persad-Bisssessar - the new and first female elected Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobaggo has done a first of sorts.

We can endure anything from our celeb Gods. We find our voyeuristic dreams being lived through them. You hurt them.. you hurt our sense of being.

Love is blind. You don't realize that until you are hopelessly in that situation. For me, it all started with this harmless flirtation, which I had avoided for last so many years.

An interesting poll from Pew Research Center says that 40% Americans expect Jesus to return to the earth in the next 40 years (by 2050).

India wants to have a symbol for its currency, the Rupee, which is universally recognizable like the Dollar sign or the Yen sign.

All these years I kept thinking - since it was announced that Indian Government has returned the IMF and WB loans back - that India was not taking any more loans from the world organizations.

Very interesting...

Does it help to design your online media to take care of the worst in the world? Should one assume that, if given a chance, people will behave badly or at their worst?

A lot has been said about the Obama administrations ban on Deepwater drilling in Gulf of Mexico and the overturning of the ban.

On my friend Ali Chisti's wall, was posted this scene from Krantiveer.

I saw this quote on the facebook wall of my friend. Worth quoting here:

This is why I like democracies! Its allows the three branches - Executive, Judiciary and Legislature to keep checks and balances on each other.

Some people living in small flats

This year's World Cup soccer has been very successful in the US, based simply on the interest it has generated within the normal American public.

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