There’s been a lot of sadness in our family this past week. While one relative was on his way to Dimapur for major life-changing surgery, an elderly grandfather died back in the village. My wife and
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Sometimes really huge news stories occur that receive almost no notice, but they are seismic just the same. Today, less than 20 years after the collapse of the officially atheistic Soviet Union, Russia has emer
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There are millions of people praying day in and day out. In fact, religion is usually understood as an act of prayer. We can see all the religious places full of devotees putting up their demands to the deities
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A recent issue of Time offers an interesting snippet of information: 47 per cent of Americans can’t raise $2,000 in 30 days without selling an asset. I dare say most of the middle classes in India, includ
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We are deeply hurt and disappointed with the government proposed Lokpal Bill. We want Lokpal to be a Strong Government Independent Anti Corruption body , which can investigate on its own. "Jan Lokpal Bill&
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As auditor to a nation whose institutions of oversight are weak and underdeveloped, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India is more than just the keeper of our national accounts. It is, in many ways, a con
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•-As a Chemical Engineer and Chemical Business Consultant, I am convinced that the Government of India should be blamed for the present price hike of diesel, cooking gas and kerosene, for the follow
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As stated in the recent local dailies, there are standing government policies dated June 22, 2009 and December 8, 2009 against collection of taxes (entry fees) in the police check gates. Let me try to fil
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Due to the enormous changes in the popular consciousness of people throughout the Asian countries there is an increased demand for the elimination of the practice of torture. In the recent decades due to change
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For so many years, she lived in an old shabby house made of rugged wood and rusty tin sheets (perhaps some of the few remnants of the Second World War British supplies). But, she loved her humble abode so dearl
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Francis Fukuyama has just published a new book, “The Origins of Political Order,” which looks at the development of political institutions from ancient China to the French Revolution. He spoke wit
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In this present state where society seems to have gone beyong being merely modern, it is quite ironic that theories of the past seem to settle so well without us ever noticing it. Being one of the thousands on
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It was on Mother’s day this year a young woman prayed earnestly to God to change her husband’s behaviour. She told God that her husband is drinking too much and there is no peace in the family and q
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HOLY SPIRIT REVEALS JESUS CHRIST THE SAVIOR TO MENComposed on 17th September 1997, Hong KongHoly Spirit came as Agent of God, the AlmightyFrom the country of immortality and HolinessTo earth the country of mort
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One option to fight global warming is geo-engineering. We should do the research on geo-engineering now: What works, what doesn't; what are the side-effects? We don’t have the answers. So let’s do i
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Sometimes news found in the mainstream Indian media can be flabbergasting. Take the case of the purported ‘diversion’ of the Yarlung Tsangpo. A ‘serious’ national newspaper spoke of the
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It is easy to guess why the central government waited so long before increasing the retail price of diesel, LPG, and kerosene. These petroleum products are far more politically sensitive than petrol, the price
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To hear such a bold assertion from one of the two men was striking. But to hear it coming from the other was the sign of a political earthquake. Last month (May), during a rip-roaring lecture at the Hay Festiva
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July 4, 2011 will witness the first hearing of the newly constituted National Green Tribunal (“the NGT”) after more than a year in the waiting and amidst deep scepticism. A Bill approving the settin
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The 9 magnitude Tohoku-Oki earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, and triggered the deadly tsunami, was more powerful than expected. The magnitude of quakes in this region has been around 7-8 in recent
