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Deadly Justice – Part 3

Filed in General Interest, January 31, 2009, 7:00 am by

TweetIn the last 2 posts – Part 1 & Part 2, I strongly advocated the case for retaining the death penalty, provided certain criteria were met. What are the harsh realities of capital punishment? Its not my intention to sweep inconvenient truths under the carpet, especially when they are explosive in nature. Let’s swallow the […]

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Wellness – it is in the mind too

Filed in General Interest,Uncategorized, January 27, 2009, 7:00 am by ,

TweetThis is my 3rd article for the Dignity Foundation’s magazine for Senior Citizens. I didn’t publish the second one containing some basic methods to research health issues, which may be too elementary for our readers. —— This time i want to cover the wellness aspects of our mind.   But before that I want to […]

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Deadly Justice – Part 2

Filed in General Interest, January 23, 2009, 7:00 am by

TweetIn September 2008, I wrote Part -1 on my series on the Death Penalty. Events transpired – death of someone I cared about, Srilankan war, our trip to Singapore & Raju Garu (Sigh!). For an extremely focused person, I get extremely distracted. Since the series on Srilanka is more or less at its mid-point, I […]

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American politics and religion

Filed in Uncategorized, January 19, 2009, 8:02 am by

TweetBarak Hussein Obama will be sworn in as America’s 44th president on the 20th of January 2009. There has been some unneeded controversy around his middle name ‘Hussein’ and if he will take oath using his full name including ‘Hussein’. And I am glad he took the dignified route of using his full name. This incident made […]

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Blog Pongal #3 – Best posts of 2008

Filed in General Interest, January 16, 2009, 7:00 am by

Tweet2008 proved to be a great year for our blog. Not only did we complete 4 years of blogging , we also hit the mega milestone of 1 Million Page Views. Read the Millenium Bat Awards from Jan 2008 – this laugh riot from Priya Raju to kick off the Blog Pongal, our annual feature […]