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Ashoka Lives through his Edicts

2012-03-23 12:46:38 pm A Tribute to Ashoka on Bihar Divas FlipKart has become my favourite e-shop for books. Recently after getting first Chanakya Chant, I got Ashoka, and then Mudrarakhash, a Hindi translation of Bishakhadutt drama on the historical story … Continue reading

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Indian Culture: Strength and Weaknesses

Two recent news reports might have hurt many wishers of India. While the first was a study coming from the academicians, the second might be a poor unnecessary remark of a former cricket captain. A study, ‘India: The Next Superpower?’ … Continue reading

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2011: The Year of Shame or Pride?

Was 2011 a year of shame as many call it or a year of pride as the other group claims? Never in the history of Independent India had so many ministers and executives were in Tihar for different scams. Never … Continue reading

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Why Apple or Galaxy instead of Aakash for MPs?

I love my iPad. It’s the first model and was a gift from Anand. It has made my life easy. It’s so user-friendly particularly for reading document in any font suitable to my eyesight that has gone very poor. All … Continue reading

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Hampi: My Experiences

The history book of high school had described the Vijayanagara and Bahmani empires of south. However, I don’t remember if there was any enthralling reference of Hampi that could make me visit Hampi during many a visits to Bangalore that … Continue reading

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Hampi-Our Heritage: My Views

Every time I think about our history, I get morose to know that even today not much of research is getting done by Indians about our heritages. One can hardly find some good authentic historical and archaeological literature written by … Continue reading

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US and India: Expectations of Mutual Respect

US is certainly not the same that used to be in years ago, neither is India. While US economy is badly on decline with its middle class in trouble and all the jobs disappearing fast. It has maximum number of … Continue reading

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Nalanda International University: Brawl over VC

I have been writing about NIU for a long time. My only wish was that Bihar would get an international university grand and academically excellent enough to attract the best brains of the world both as teachers and students as … Continue reading

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@ 65th Independence Day

On the eve of Independence Day, I was feeling miserable with the news of Team India in a state of free fall. I opened my TV to see something better, but then I came across Manish Tiwari, the repulsive spokesman … Continue reading

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Auto Industry: Trends over the Years

The country intends of raising the share of manufacturing in its GDP or in its economic output to 25% from the existing level of 14% in next twenty years. As estimated, one sixth of Indian manufacturing is connected with automobiles. … Continue reading

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