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2013-03-24T23:39:21-05:00

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Rise of Social Media Use in India

Last updated on: March 24, 2013 at 11:39 pm By Desh Kapoor

India’s internet use is undergoing a change as the Smartphone revolution takes over. Every urban youth is using a smartphone today and with it is coming the access to the social media. This infographic discusses the various aspects of the use of Social media in India. Read more

2013-03-24T22:49:47-05:00

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Professors say students of Online courses should not get official college credits

Last updated on: March 24, 2013 at 10:49 pm By Desh Kapoor

Online Educational degree and non-degree courses offering is one of the fastest growing trend around the world, specifically in the US. For example, you can check out some of the courses from the top Schools in the US here: University of California – Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University But are the professors happy? Apparently no! Since the largest university system in the world, the California State University system, announced a pilot for low-cost online lower-division courses, schools from... Read more

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2013-05-29T12:34:59-05:00

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Detailed analysis of Osama Bin Laden by Stratfor analyst, Kamran Bokhari

Last updated on: May 29, 2013 at 12:34 pm By Desh Kapoor

Kamran Bokhari is an analyst with Stratfor, a defense and geo-political Analysis Organization. Tahir Gora, who has very interesting questions – many that I would have liked to ask as well – for Kamran Bokhari in his program “Bilatakalluf with Tahir Gora”. Bokhari looks at all the questions and issues in very interesting and rational way. Some of his conclusions go against my understanding of what is going on in Pakistan, but I appreciate his analysis and it has set... Read more

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2013-05-29T12:36:38-05:00

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Veena Malik talks about her love for Ganpati and plans for Holi; Mullah hounds waiting for her Pakistan?

Last updated on: May 29, 2013 at 12:36 pm By Desh Kapoor

First of all, one has to applaud the chutzpah and the tackling ability of Veena Malik, the actress from Pakistan, who has – through many different (some debatable) ways, made her place in Bollywood. She was earlier hounded several times in the Pakistan media for having denigrated Islam and also the image of Pakistan. If these two concepts and identities are dependent on someone’s professional choices, then boy they are fragile and insecure!! Now, Veena has come to say, after... Read more

2013-03-20T08:16:18-05:00

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How a guy made a Bike out a car, when it broke down in the middle of Sahara, to come out of the desert

Last updated on: March 20, 2013 at 8:16 am By Desh Kapoor

When adversity hits you, how do you react? That is the most important ingredient for happiness and success in life. This is a story of a guy who was stranded in the Sahara Desert with a broken down car. But he used what he had to create something for himself to get out of that place. Incredible story!! Read Quote of Christopher Reiss’s answer to Life: What is the best thing that anyone has made? on Quora Read more

Motivation and Personal Development

2013-03-19T15:47:07-05:00

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Logic Framework to test the Question: Why do beautiful women marry unattractive men and good looking men marry beautiful women?

Last updated on: March 19, 2013 at 3:47 pm By Desh Kapoor

Some people have this idea that although Good-looking women marry not so good looking men, Good looking men do marry good looking women. But is that true? Here is an interesting mathematical argument. Read Quote of Gayle Laakmann McDowell’s answer to Attractiveness and Attractive People: Why do good looking women often marry men who are way less attractive while good-looking men more-often marry good-looking women? on Quora Read more

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2013-03-19T14:58:19-05:00

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Popedom finery is fine, but what does Christ have to do with Christianity?

Last updated on: March 19, 2013 at 2:58 pm By Desh Kapoor

In Gautama Buddha’s own lifetime, he was able to help transcend around 30,000 people to realizing their own self. That many Enlightened people were developed by just one man in his lifetime. It so happened once that one of his disciples had transcended to an Enlightened self. Yet he kept at the normal chores and following Buddha in his journeys wherever he went. A year later Buddha happened to notice him and his realized self and asked him to stop... Read more

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2013-03-18T23:33:24-05:00

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Is Pakistan, China’s vassal state?

Last updated on: March 18, 2013 at 11:33 pm By Desh Kapoor

Pakistan is as fantastic a vassal state as they come. When it was behind US, it did whatever it took to make them happy. In a bid to bolster Americans and their Cold War agenda, they literally lit fire to their whole society and neighborhood – with the beginning of Jihad. Of course, the idea was that they will use the fire of that anarchy to do their own dirty work. Now that fire is coming to roast their own... Read more

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

2013-03-18T09:07:44-05:00

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Science of Winning and Losing: People are wired differently; an interesting discussion

Last updated on: March 18, 2013 at 9:07 am By Desh Kapoor

People differ in how they approach competition. Men and women are different as well in their approaches. When the stakes are high, when it’s all on the line, some people rise to the occasion. They savor the challenge. The thrill of competition. They want, badly, to win. While others feel dread. Their hands go cold. They begin to sweat. Bestselling authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman have looked at the research of what happens to us when we compete. They’ve... Read more

2013-03-18T07:57:31-05:00

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Interview with Pervez Musharraf as he returns to Pakistan after 4 years to contest the elections

Last updated on: March 18, 2013 at 7:57 am By Desh Kapoor

Pervez Musharraf is going back to Pakistan after 4 years in exile. He is confident that he can make political impact within a month of joining the campaign fray. So, he is fighting the elections and will be going for next rule. Just before his return to Pakistan after 4 years in exile, former president Pervez Musharraf explains that he does not fear arrest or assassination; that he wants to run in the forthcoming elections and would like to... Read more

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