Jai Hind: Proud to be an Indian

We ask for a tough state, when we ourselves are a soft people. Most of us are selfish, inward-looking cowards.
(originally published in livemint & via @pjain on twitter)

Lately, there has been a buzz over the section 49-O of The Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 on blogs, newspapers, email forwards and microblogs.
A discussion on twitter ended up into a complete dissection of the rule. Here are excerpts of the discussion.

If we want to bring some changes in the system through a movement, then it is extremely essential to stay united. We will have to prepare for a longer battle, focus on long term goals and be ready to demand our rights at the right time.

THE RECENT happenings in our country in connection with the blasts in Malegaon has raised few questions. The questions that need to be thought carefully and then answered else we are heading towards a very dangerous situation. The biggest hurdle in this will no doubt be again our own politicians. As I have always maintained [...]

OBESITY IS a condition in which there is excessive accumulation of the fat in the body. Some years back it was restricted to affluent countries where per capita income was high, physical activity was low and and foods high in saturated fat and sugar were freely available. But with the dynamic growth in last decade [...]

Cinema was born out of the impetus to represent the reality in a more convincing manner. After the nation gained independence, the cinema focused on post colonial issues such as poverty, illiteracy and unjustified social system. Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Shanta Ram and Sohrab Modi were the few directors who made cinema pertaining to the [...]

Gautam Gambhir and VVS Laxman’s knock of double hundreds have out India in command in third test at Delhi. Now Australia can only at best think of drawing the game, thus losing all hopes of winning the four match series against India.
After winning the toss and electing to bat, Kumble could not have expected a [...]

Grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand did India proud by retaining the World chess championship crown at Bonn in Germany after drawing with Russian Vladimir Kramnik in the eleventh game of the twelve game series thus winning by a score of 6.5 to 4.5.
India can be proud of the fact that Vishy has retained the world championship and [...]

Mr Raj Thackeray has done a commendable job.
surprised!!!!!
well let me explain.I have been living in Mumbai for past 3 and half years.
And in these past 3 and half years I have seen 3 major incidence of violence against people of Bihar. Let us take them one by one.
1)The 1st one was the case of J.J.Medical [...]

Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge or Yale? A dilemma of Atlantic proportions for the Indian students for these universities not only have the patina of history and heritage attached to them but also offer a wide array of opportunities in todays world.
There has been a growing trend of Indian students going abroad for education. In the past [...]