India at 60... Happy Independance Day

The 8 visions that changed the face of India via The Times of India

This article is written by the one man that has put India on the Software Technology map of the world and made us proud.

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English?!??!!

At the end of the day, you've given 110 per cent via Telegraph UK

Eager to preserve the English language against a rising tide of nonsense, we asked readers to compose a piece of prose crammed with as many infuriating phrases as possible. Christopher Howse is amazed and amused by the torrent of replies...
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I hear what you're saying but, with all due respect, it's not exactly rocket science. Basically, at the end of the day, the fact of the matter is you have got to be able to tick all the boxes. It's not the end of the world, but, to be perfectly honest with you, when push comes to shove, you don't want to be literally stuck between a rock and a hard place. Going forward we need to be singing from the same songsheet but you can't see the wood from the trees. Naturally hindsight is 20/20 vision and you have to take the rough with the smooth before proceeding onwards and upwards. The bottom line is you wear your heart on your sleeve and, when all is said and done, this is all part and parcel of the ongoing bigger picture. C'est la vie (if you know what I mean).

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
--William Ewart Gladstone

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This is the reality... and it is pathetic

Female foeticide instigates rage via NDTV

This it the reality about situation of women not Prathiba Patil. This will change not by mass revolution or within a day. This can only change if all of us each and every individual - man and woman - perceive each other as equal.
Believe that solution is
not to cover them form head to toe but to teach men not to look at them as sex objects.
not to ban them from going to work at odd hours but to make it safer for them to work at any hour
not to train them that subordination is good but to give them the right to choose

Not all the problems come form men often it is women who cause problems for other women...
More on this some other time.

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