2005 August

This cartoon by R.K Laxman is most illustrative (no pun intended) of the affairs of the state…

Prediction comes true.
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There is a reason why I am not into farewell parties at IIT , I inevitably end up like this :

But thats the usual stuff, you want to see something unusual ? Anyone who knows Maya will be shocked when they see what the sincere, sidhi-saadhi almost pious Maya is doing here : :0

And [...]

The British crossed seas, suffered India’s summers and often fell to malaria, all to build an empire. Fifty eight years after a famous independence, the Indian fate is still touched by the empire. Times Review looks at outdated laws that have survived, and at colonial systems and infrastructure that we use, somewhat ungratefully
By Swati Deshpande, [...]

A very interesting article, that helps put content on the blog when I dont feel like writing anything….

Biologists have long understood that monogamy is rare in mammals. Of about 4,000 mammalian species, only a handful has ever been called monogamous. The tiny list includes beavers and a couple of other rodents, otters, bats, certain foxes, [...]