My car has electrically adjustable outer rear view mirrors – or ORVM’s as they call them. My car cleaner regularly tilts them anyway he wishes when he cleans the car mirrors. Today while at a traffic signal i realised that my mirrors were awry and adjusted my left one first and then my right. as…
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ban lavish weddings to bachao betis
i saw the movie ‘mistress of spices’ yesterday. the spell binding heroine i.e aishwarya rai laments that her parents were not happy (in the movie) with the birth of a girl child as it means more ‘dahej’ or dowry. that is the bottom line. people do not want girls – not because they dont…
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lowering age for sexual consent
lowering age for sexual consent hi all there are various reports in the media that the law for lowering the age to 16 was already passed. There is no clarity if it is indeed so. Its time to find out if that really is the case as this is a major shift in policy…….
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Cafe Leopold – why do you feel so inferior?
It is reported that while 02 Indian families were made to wait for tables a group of foreigners were seated as soon as they came. On confronting the management & staff over the issue, they were asked this – “why do you feel so inferior?” Hard to accept but the inferior treatment is true. Any…
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Ashok Chakra – A salute to our heroes
Two of the brave sons of our country who have been martyred were honoured with the highest peace time honour i.e Ashok Chakra. We stand up and salute these heroes.
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mobile phone cameras – boon or bane
There are cell phones in the market starting with a VGA camera to upto 18 MP (Mega pixels). what started out as hazy recordings on a VGA camera have reached a state of cyrstal clear picture with high resolution cameras. With the increase in resolution, every individual has become trigger happy and you could find…
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The Service of a fly swatter
I used to wake up at 04:00 AM in the morning for practicing karate in the local Dojo. Dojo is a japanese term signifying an assembling place for learning martial arts. We as youngsters spent many an early morning there breaking tiles with a chop of the hand or bricks with a punch of the…