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Dehradun

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Monday, July 4, 2016. By Akshay S Dinesh. Dehradun express stops for long time at various places and reaches Dehradun by 9 in the morning. We woke up by the time the train reached Haridwar and saw dried Ganga on the way. There were a couple of other tourists waiting in the electric cart at the entrance. We quickly bought entry tickets and sat on it. I was at the tail, looking back when the cart went forward. The straight road cut at right angles to several buildings, all in lush green plots. One more tim...

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Pink City

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Thursday, February 11, 2016. By Akshay S Dinesh. So, how do you wake up on time even though your alarms were scheduled an hour late? Enter North Indian aunties. They talk lovingly to each other at decibels higher than our alarms. And fortunately we had a double family next to our berths. They woke their children up and explained how Jaipur is coming up in half an hour and all I had to do was wake up and listen. The only association I had with Jaipur apart from it being the capital of Rajasthan and being ...

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7/1/16 - 8/1/16

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Monday, July 4, 2016. By Akshay S Dinesh. This notorious place. Do anything you want, but never eat a thing from here. They are probably taking all their water from the E-coli filled dirty sacred holy river Ganga. We had no plan to eat at the bank of the river, but it rained and we got trapped near a place and we ate some and the story turns worse. When the rain subsided, it was time for the Russian to leave. We dropped him back at the station waving him goodbye. On the way to the station we had ...The l...

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12/1/15 - 1/1/16

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Saturday, December 12, 2015. The Reason Why You Cannot Convince Anyone To Switch To FOSS. By Akshay S Dinesh. How many times have you talked about your favorite free software to a friend and they appeared totally convinced about how cool it is, but just won't stop using their proprietary tool? Firefox is cool. But Chrome's market share keeps increasing. XMPP and IRC are both cool. But they're both dying. But you have to post this photo there itself. Why does this happen? Why don't people understand?

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10/1/16 - 11/1/16

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Friday, October 14, 2016. Why would Kashmir want to stay with India when they don’t even get access to internet like the rest of Indians? By Akshay S Dinesh. Access to internet in Kashmir. And like marital rape. Suppressing a citizen’s basic rights this way is legal. There are complex geopolitical issues in Kashmir. But, what wrong did internet in Kashmir do to be treated like trade with an enemy state? There is a class of Indians who conflates the cloud with clouds in the sky. Internet is a great equali...

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3/1/16 - 4/1/16

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016. Delhi - my city. By Akshay S Dinesh. I love it when all the action is around you. And Delhi is the capital of all action. That is why I love Delhi. This was my second time in Delhi. The last time. We stopped at NOIDA and stayed at my friend's house where we had nice mutton specialities. Next day morning we took to the metro. Got a ₹150 tourist ticket to travel throughout the day. I did come back to Akshardham a second time a few days later. This time we saw the water show&#46...

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Haridwar

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Monday, July 4, 2016. By Akshay S Dinesh. This notorious place. Do anything you want, but never eat a thing from here. They are probably taking all their water from the E-coli filled dirty sacred holy river Ganga. We had no plan to eat at the bank of the river, but it rained and we got trapped near a place and we ate some and the story turns worse. When the rain subsided, it was time for the Russian to leave. We dropped him back at the station waving him goodbye. On the way to the station we had ...The l...

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Mussoorie

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Monday, July 4, 2016. By Akshay S Dinesh. By then the Sun was going to go down and we didn't want to waste that day by not going anywhere. I calculated the distance to various places we could go to and settled on going to Everest house. The distance could be covered on foot in about an hour said Google Maps. But that hour easily stretched into two. I'll write about how GPS-enabled/dependent our treks were in a later post. And then there was a surprise. There was light! This is where warmth comes from.

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Medicine, Mind and Me: July 2014

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Medicine, Mind and Me. Is the story of an MBBS course in Mysore Medical College and Research Institute. Before reading this blog. Thursday, July 17, 2014. The work on saMMsCRIthi '14 started already. The website is here: saMMsCRIthi.in. The facebook page: fb.com/saMMsCRIthi. The twitter profile: twitter.com/saMMsCRIthi. Sponsorship committees are starting their work. We, Malayalis are going to all the hotels and restaurants. It was a good start today. Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Dr Rajgopal about self-harm.

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Proactive Change

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Friday, July 20, 2012. By Akshay S Dinesh. There are 3 kinds of people. Let's call them versions 1, 2 and 3. Version 1: won't change. These are the people who hold on to their pasts. Once they are labeled something, based on something that they did or something that they told; they tend to retain that feature forever. Change is not a word even in their electronic dictionaries. Version 2: will change when proved wrong. Version 3: proactively seek change. And an upgrade to this version is rarely complete&#...