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August 2006

August 23, 2006

How the World changed in the last Century

Sometimes you have to read old books to know and appreciate how the world of...

August 21, 2006

Vegetarianism and West's discovery of India

The vegetarianism is not a new phenomenon! It was there for thousands of years in...

August 16, 2006

When Millions Should be Killed to Mourn a Few Thousands!

It has become so fashionable to talk of peace these days and blaming the World.....

August 15, 2006

India's Independence Day! Happy Independence Day to All!!

Today is India's Independence Day! Happy Independence Day to All!! Youth performing Bhangra on the...

August 03, 2006

New Delhi: How it changed over the years!

This is an interesting article of how New Delhi changed over the years! I have...

July 2006

July 18, 2006

The Path to Fight Terrorism has to start by putting Muhammad in Perspective

This is an article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali - who has written "The Caged Virgin"....

July 14, 2006

Suicide Bombing class goes wrong in the Terrorist High School!!

Well.. it seems the Madrassas in Pakistan have some special "extra-curricular" activities going on -...

July 05, 2006

Bikini's Birthday Today!

On July 5, 1946, the bikini was unveiled during an outdoor fashion show at the...

June 2006

June 24, 2006

Guru Arjan Dev Controversy and the Manipulated Indian History!

There has been enough controversy that was started sometime back on the Indian History's manipulation....

June 22, 2006

How Christopher Columbus died a Failure!

A nice article on how Columbus - the man who discovered a new continent and...

May 2006

May 17, 2006

Netaji Did not Die in Aircrash: Mukherjee Commission

Finally a formal Government backed Commission (Mukherjee Commission) comes out with the finding on Netaji...

April 2006

April 20, 2006

History: Software Engineering

Computer scientist Friedrich Ludwig Bauer coins the term "software engineering" during a presentation at the...

April 13, 2006

Iran, Nukes, US and Proliferation

Gotham Chopra, son of the Consciousness Guru Deepak Chopra, writes on Intentblog about the US...

April 04, 2006

Islam's Imperial Dreams

This is an indepth article (which I am reproducing as is) on the History of...

April 03, 2006

Business History: ICQ launch and build up.

I will bring the history of different stuff in IT - this from a site...

March 2006

March 25, 2006

Urbanization vs Rural Areas

Recently, I was listening to Onpoint Radio - one of my favorite radion shows in...

March 09, 2006

Negative Perceptions of Islam in US

The world is changing and it is becoming more anti-Islam - part of it has...

March 05, 2006

Flickr Pic of the Day

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February 2006

February 23, 2006

Over 1 million Booty to kill MF Hussain

What's up with these guys? Nothing much to do in life or what? Rs 51...

February 14, 2006

Abode of Mohammad Bin Tughlaqs

Mohammad Bin Tughlaq was the son of Ghiyas ud din and came to the throne...

February 07, 2006

Balance of Views, Expression and Violence

The current controversy on the Prophet cartoons ceases to stop. And as it grows on...

February 06, 2006

Muslims should also condemn religious targetting within Islamic World

SInce I am on this topic, here is what the US is urging the Muslims...

February 06, 2006

Iconoclastic Hypocrisy

Got this from this comments from Divya at Intentblog.. was so apt that I had...

February 06, 2006

India as Pakistani kids read us!

There has been so much of controversy about the History books in India.. and on...

January 2006

January 30, 2006

HEY RAM – Gandhi NEVER said it!!

This is something that was brought out in a play on Nathuram Godse which was...

January 27, 2006

Controversy on Hinduism in California Text Books

There is a controversy on the issue of controversy of changes to California sixth graders...

January 18, 2006

Historical background to Language Expressions

Here are some interesting historical stories that affected the English language expressions! I am sure...

November 2005

November 29, 2005

History 3

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

November 29, 2005

History 2

A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth...

November 29, 2005

History 1

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the...