In my nation every day
People kill their children
As sacrifices
For prosperity
For male children
For revenge
For salvation
The newspapers love a good story
The city dwellers love to shake their heads
At the illiterate backward masses
Who do such preposterous things
Sometimes
There is a moment of unrest inside
Shared hurt springs a desire
To reach out
To change
But will they change?
Wont things change anyway
The nation is [...]

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Blank Noise has finished another excellent project; Excuse Me?
It is a collection of
……..ridiculous,strange, bizzare, disgusting, funny, humiliating words that have been used towards you/ your body when you were out on the streets“.
Check out the great list of fruits, objects, and songs.

For those who came late, blank noise is a mega project to opopse, identify, [...]

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The Unappreciated (read: D lister’s)
Curious Cat
Latest Crush. Blank noise hero.
Wizard’s Spellbook, Mom’s Cookbook
Tolkien Wannabe, getting there one decent story at a time.
Poor. Indian. Graduate Student.
Personal Blog, kinda funny, mostly.
Tiny Prime Ministerial Ideas Ideas flitting through the prime minister’s mind. Apparently.
Can do with some more appreciation. (Obviously, C lister’s. Duh)
Balancing Life
Scientist, blogger. Surprisingly little [...]

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This is not a political blog, but I love the guy and just discovered that the speeches of the prime minister are available online .
This one is an year old speech from when he gave away the Goenka Journalism awards
As I have said before, freedom of press is more than just the freedom of publishers [...]

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If India has a message for the world, it is this. Mankind must shun all extremes and all forms of extremism. We must reject all ideologies of exclusion for nature’s way has been to be inclusive. Nature had of course willed the survival of the fittest, but human societies have come to accept the [...]

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This can also be called
The great Indian Book Hunt
(For every thing Indian must begin with “The great Indian”)
Sometime ago when I was planning on how to spend my vacation, in a moment of enhanced desi-ness I decided that I must conquer the Indian authors. I googled for a top list, and to [...]

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Paris, Britney, Lindsay & Nicole: They seem to be everywhere and they may not be wearing underwear. Tweens adore them and teens envy them. But are we raising a generation of ‘prosti-tots’?
One thing is not in doubt: a lot of parents are wondering about the effect our racy popular culture may have on their [...]

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