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Came across a much needed, and nicely researched article on how the state of Kerala, India, feeds off the taxes paid by its poorest citizen...

It is that time of the year again. Half way through,we Indians get this opportunity to observe the anniversary of the day India won its inde...

Today I learnt a lot. Because today, I went to the museum. I felt like a kid again, and boy, was it fun. This would be my best museum trip e...

Longtime in the works, Australia is changing their immigration laws, reducing the overall number of Visas being handed out, but allowing for...

 

The trending news right now is: Jet Airways goes down. Its been on the news for a few months now, but no-one took it that seriously, I gues...

  Today I read about the recent earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia . It was caused by the eruption on the younger volcano Anak Krakatau ....

Albert Einstein was born 140 years ago . Yes. He lived over a century ago. And his ideas continue to inspire and question us today. And will...

  The ‘Doom’ in the title refers to the original computer video game released by the folks at iD software. 25 years ago, on December 10th,...

  Living in India through floods and famines, I thought, had prepared me for the worst of climate change elsewhere in the world. Almost, be...

  These old school Unix exploits still work !!     cd /etc; Xorg -fp "root::16431:0:99999:7:::" -logfile shadow :1;su

  I had the habit of reading detective fiction, and espionage novels during high school and college. But later the hobby died a gradual de...

Georges Lemaître was an astronomer and professor of physics who is thought to be the first to have theorised that the universe is expandi...

I love reading the economist , when I get the time, that is. Too bad they don’t cover India very often. But when they do publish something...

The 40-Year Old Mystery of the "Wow!" Signal Was Just Solved. Background: In 1977, the sound of extraterrestrials was heard by hum...

  …in New Mexico ! As far as most of the world is concerned, poor Pluto got downgraded from planet to dwarf planet (or planetoid) back in...

  “It’ll be a cold day in hell before I let twins fly long-haul over-water routes.” Those were the words of Lynn Helms—administrator of the...

 

  Today I reached another milestone. 10 years ago to this day, I had started (technically restarted) my career in the IT industry. But it f...

  The United States won its 1,000th Olympic gold medal on Saturday when the American women swimmers won the 4x100 meter medley relay at the...