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December | 2014 | vivek singh

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Archive for December, 2014. Posted by vivek in Uncategorized. Event: Farewell school picnic before ICSE. Event: Visit to my native place after giving my last competitive exam, AIEEE. Event: Xavotsav, St. Xavier’s annual college fest. Event: Durga puja at Maddox Square. Event: Navratri, Durga puja at Nicco Superbowl. Event: Project picnic at Mandarmani Beach. How can I forget the countless. India’s sprinting performance at olympics. Tallest flagpoles of india. India at miss world. India at miss universe.

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who needs to get a life? | vivek singh

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Laquo; the turning point. The bike, the shoe and tears. Who needs to get a life? Posted 05/04/2015 by vivek in Uncategorized. 8211; located in Belur, Howrah district, West Bengal, is the headquarters of Ramakrishna Mission. There are several shrines inside the math but the main one is dedicated to Ramakrishna Paramhansa. The grand monument was consecrated on 14. The ramakrishna temple inside belur math (source: google). Or powerful fire crackers. Some sources also mention the presence of metal pieces.

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hating the swami – part II | vivek singh

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Laquo; hating the swami – part I. The jokers have arrived. Hating the swami – part II. Posted 20/01/2013 by vivek in Uncategorized. Anwaar, you have said that “Hindus need to be more sensitive about how such an argument will impact on people of other faiths”. A Jyotirmaya Sharma or a Shuddhabrata Sengupta can denigrate our scriptures, our highly venerated sages like Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, without worrying about their personal safety. Wish I could say the same thing about apostates from other re...

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hating the swami – part I | vivek singh

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Laquo; my first tryst with RSS. Hating the swami – part II. Hating the swami – part I. Posted 20/01/2013 by vivek in Uncategorized. Hindus: Outlook thinks you and me are a bunch of complete and utter rednecks. They troll you and me on every issue with a provocative article or book launch and you and me give them 500 comments in return. Let us think about this. Do you see the advertisements on this page and throughout outlook’s site? Or else you shall willingly be victims of a troll. Some of these Macaula...

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July | 2013 | vivek singh

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Archive for July, 2013. Posted by vivek in Uncategorized. My parents have been away at bangalore for almost a month now but these days i can pretty much take care of myself and even keep the whole home tidied up! Though, for the days my younger sister was here she used to take good care of dad and me despite being busy with her training at salt lake! Not to mention i idolize all my sisters – their avergae IQ notwithstanding😛. The person i am, i keep her updating with some of the happenings in india!

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March | 2011 | vivek singh

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Archive for March, 2011. Posted by vivek in Uncategorized. This post is written for BLOGESHWAR 8.0. The catchment area of Salween, one of the few undammed rivers in the world, was a hotbed for growing the divine produce that was snorted world across by the rich and famous and involved various national and international state machinery. The gentle breeze from the arakan yoma. What started as an insurgency soon became a blind game of murder and rape. What good is an insurgency? What good is violence? NB: T...

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February | 2013 | vivek singh

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Archive for February, 2013. The jokers have arrived. Posted by vivek in Uncategorized. Few days back, some Grand Mufti named Bashiruddin, issued a fatwa on Kashmir’s first all-girl band Pragaash for a gamut of things, primary of which was music being haraam and what followed was a volley of accusations, counter-accusations, threats, debates, apologies with some even saying the mufti is “highly unpopular” and “fringe”. Ok! Leave it at that! A “fringe” element. I really don’t know why you needed to say mos...

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June | 2011 | vivek singh

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Archive for June, 2011. Posted by vivek in Uncategorized. Sundari tree (genus heritiera). How Sundarbans got its name is a question that has been puzzling researchers for quite a while now. Some say it simply stands for beautiful forests. Sundar in Bengali means beautiful and bon means forests) while others say it’s a corrupt form of the word samudraban. Samudra in Bengali means sea and bon means forests) while yet others says it has been named after a primitive tribe, Chandrabandhe. I would nevertheless...

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July | 2011 | vivek singh

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Archive for July, 2011. Posted by vivek in Uncategorized. This was a letter I had written to the Director of India Post (Philately) after discovering that the names of two lakes were incorrect in the list of five stamps released in 2006. To commemorate Himalayan Lakes. I had originally mailed my letter to directorphilately@indiapost.gov.in. As mentioned in the philately website. Maintained by India Post but when it bounced I was not amazed at all. This was the letter in original I had written. One of the...