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TERMS, POLICIES AND PARANOIA – WELCOME TO FACEBOOK
Facebook recently issued a notification to all its users, declaring the change in its terms and policies with effect from January 1: “By using our services after Jan 1, you agree to our updated terms,...
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A GOVERNMENT OF U-TURNS (PART 1 – THE INDIA-BANGLADESH LAND SWAP DEAL)
It was a time of great upheaval but one wouldn’t have known it. Indian history is a place where myth often intertwines with reality and of little consequence – to the protagonists or the historians –...
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LET ME LIST THE REASONS I HATE LISTICLES
It occurs to me that a modern intellectual concourse on the internet is a distant dream that has long since set sail. Why? It is simply because we are threatened by the copy-pasting carnage of the...
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WHAT I LEARNT AT THE PEOPLE’S SAARC
Disclosure: The writer’s trip to Nepal to attend People’s SAARC was sponsored by GCAAP (Global Call for Action Against Poverty) with the hope that he could provide some inputs and share his thoughts...
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NOT JUST UBER, MOST TAXI SERVICES TAKE YOUR SECURITY FOR A RIDE
Even as the Delhi government bans Uber’s services because it was “misleading” customers, it seems most taxi service providers in the city function on similar terms of service as Uber. Special...
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FLYING WITH KEJRIWAL
Last week, a photo of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal occupying a business class seat in a Dubai-bound Emirates Airlines went viral. The frenzy on mainstream and social media left us with...
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CAN THE BJP BUCK THE J&K TREND?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged the people of Jammu & Kashmir not to vote for a ‘tooti-phooti sarkaar‘ (broken government). He was referring to coalitions created after elections. Though...
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GWALIOR, INDIA’S RAPE CAPITAL, DELHI IS NO. 3
The rape of a 26-year-old woman in a Delhi taxi run by Uber has led to a furore on the mainstream and social media and led to a ban on four taxi-booking companies, including Uber. The latest in a...
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THE MEDIA TURNS A BLIND EYE TO THE ATTACK ON KASHMIRI STUDENTS IN HARYANA
It started with a minor scuffle at lunch hour in the college canteen and ended with at least eight students getting beaten up brutally. The mainstream media has so far kept silent on the incident,...
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INTERNET FREEDOM MEANS NET NEUTRALITY
December 10 was an eventful day for the discourse on Internet freedom in the country even though most of the action happened offline. In the morning, the Attorney General, in a stray submission to the...
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LAW GETS DRAMATIC
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3 MILLION TRUCKLOADS DAILY: INDIA’S REAL TRASH PROBLEM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi may want a “Swachh Bharat” (clean India) by 2019, but sweeping the streets does not address the enormity of India’s real garbage challenge. As prosperity grows, 62 million...
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WHY SAKSHI MAHARAJ ALSO NEEDS TO APOLOGISE FOR ANTI-GENDER SPEECH
Sakshi Maharaj, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament (MP) from Unnao, has a colourful past – he was an accused in the Babri demolition and also has charges of murder, misuse of...
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A 7-STEP BLUEPRINT TO RECREATE MUMBAI
Image source: Wikimedia The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), contributes 10% to India’s GDP, 33% to Maharashtra’s GDP, and accounted for 5% of India’s urban population in 2012. By 2030, MMR alone...
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DEAR BJP, YOU CAN’T “ENSURE” VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION
Merry Christmas? Maybe, not. If you’re in school, you may as well forget the usual festivities and get down to writing an essay on “good governance”. For, according to the latest diktat by the powers...
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DELHI POLICE’S RADIO GAG-GAG OF AAP
Yesterday, it was reported that the Delhi police had objected against this radio spot by the Aam Aadmi Party and had got it banned from being played on radio channels. Now I’m no fan of AAP’s carpet...
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HOW INDIA GOT 2000% RETURN ON ANTI-MALARIA INVESTMENT
The World Health Organisation’s World Malaria Report 2014, released last week, indicates dramatic success against malaria, with mortality rates down by 47% globally since 2000, and 55 countries,...
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