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Essays and Articles: March 2012
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Monday, March 26, 2012. Bold ideas for a New India - #1. In year 2009-2010, Air India Ltd. spent a humungous 3,356 crores in salaries and crew allowances. It spent an additional 13,224 crores in operational costs and yet ended with a loss of 5,552 crores. If Air India Ltd. were to divest itself completely, here is what the GOI could do with the money that goes into a dark hole year after year:. What happens to the employees of Air India? What does India need more? Posted by Yatin Dhareshwar.
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Essays and Articles: May 2014
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Thursday, May 22, 2014. Sacche din kab ayenge? In our enthusiasm to mock Kejriwal and AAP, let us not forget, the biggest joke is on us, the citizens of India - the corrupt, the inept and the criminals, they all roam free and that is the biggest mockery of all. You see, five years will pass. I have no doubt we will be better off as a country. And yet, nothing, nothing at all will be done against all the Congress scams. Sacche din kab ayenge? Posted by Yatin Dhareshwar. Links to this post.
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Blood on the river Saraswati: May 2012
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Blood on the river Saraswati. Glossary of names and places. Saturday, 5 May 2012. Monsoon arrives in Arya land. The clouds had begun to gather and shrouded the afternoon in darkness. The rain lashed at everything in its wake. The Ahichhatrans sought refuge inside their ill-equipped homes. But, despite the apparent threat and obvious inconvenience, they bore no grudge. After all, the torrent was but a manifestation of the Maruts and in any case, the rain would nourish the grazing lands. In far away Vrinda...
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Blood on the river Saraswati: March 2012
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Blood on the river Saraswati. Glossary of names and places. Saturday, 24 March 2012. A war machinery set in motion. A shower or arrows rained on the herd, killing most instantly. A few managed to pull themselves out and sped along the banks in either direction. Alas, the humans lay in wait in the river, submerged. On cue, they rose, out of the water and in one motion, let their arrows loose from outstretched bows. The hapless deer had no chance. Bows, arrows, quivers, mails (leather based armours), shaft...
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Essays and Articles: August 2014
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Friday, August 1, 2014. The Tripping Point hypothesis in epigenetics - the start of cancer? Researchers have long known that cancer is caused by damage to some critical stretch of DNA. Exposure to radiation as well as cigarette smoking causes genetic damage and that's how they cause cancer. In recent times, the role of epigenetics, or more precisely, epigenetic damage as a cause of cancer has emerged as well. So what is epigenetics? The circuit breaker will trip and the harmful burst of electricty will b...
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Essays and Articles: November 2012
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Thursday, November 29, 2012. Why Time travel is not possible. I can best explain this through an every day example. Imagine you have an mp3 player with shuffle mode on. When you choose "Forward", you have no idea which song will play next. Likewise, if you were to choose "Previous", then too, you will have no idea which song will play. But, if anything we know for certain it is that uncertainty is the hallmark of our Universe. We have no idea how life will turn out, much less what the next moment hol...
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Essays and Articles: August 2012
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Sunday, August 5, 2012. Letter to Karan on Friendship Day. On this friendship day, I would like to share with you how my life was shaped by important lessons I learnt from my dearest friends. Kedar taught me to always stand by your friend - he exemplified "a friend in need is a friend indeed". By his actions, I learnt to give and share unconditionally, for that is true help and anything else is an obligation. When I first encountered Deven's ability to be brutually honest, I thought he was being suicidal...
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Essays and Articles: September 2012
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012. Nothing riles Indians as much as corruption. And if the scale of the corruption is to the tune of INR 1.86 lakh crores (or roughly 34 billion US dollars), then heads must roll. This is the amount that the CAG estimates is the gain that will accrue to the private firms that have been allocated coal blocks. A percentage of this gain is therefore the perceived loss to the Indian ex-chequer. No sooner was “Report 7” released by the CAG, the opposition parties, led by t...Why did i...
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Essays and Articles: December 2013
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Monday, December 30, 2013. Origin of Life on Earth – Part 1: Primordial soup or soups? The origin of life is a fascinating tale of how chemistry turned into biology. To trace the beginnings, we have to figure out how raw material available on earth combined to form complex macro-molecules such as lipids, amino acids and nucleotides – the building blocks of life. For several decades following the announcement of their results, a large section of the scientific community did indeed believe so. The team rea...
