Mysteriously children are getting saved from near death in Bengal!

June 7th, 2007 Today's newspaper reported a heart-warming story in a village in West Bengal who has adopted a widow with AIDS. She is allowed to freely mix with the families and even cuddle their children.

May 14th, 2006 I was watching a TV infomercial which argued in favor of HIV positive children attending schools with other HIV negative students. On the surface it appears the humanly thing to do but is it really logical (and humanly) to allow HIV+ students to attend normal schools? In school children are known to get into fights, bruises from various causes are common.

July 20th, 2005 I am very disappointed. The storyline especially the death looked very contrived; the death was as if publisher (or someone else) forced Mrs.

April 17th, 2007 "Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making and character-making assimilation of ideas.” said Swami Vivekananda.

September 13th, 2005 A 31 year old Dutchman returned from work to find a strange car in the drive of his home in Pieterburen, near Groningen. Two children were sitting on the back seat so the man asked them where their father was and was told that his father was inside, "robbing" the house.

June 20th, 2007 Attorney General Jim Hood said his office is reviewing 162 identifiable records of registered Missisippi sex offenders provided by MySpace. "MySpace has assured us that the sex offenders they reported to us have been removed from the site," said Hood.

February 7th, 2007 Dr. Albert Einstein once said - "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." Some of the popular world religions (including but not limited to Christianity & Islam) indeed try to force man into ethical behavior by promising candy of heaven (+ houries) and punish them to hell (infinite or less in duration) for lapsing.

July 21st, 2005 A 30-year study of 1037 children has found that those who watch the most TV are least likely to go to university and get a degree. "Those who watched little television had the best chance of going on to university and earning a degree," said researcher Bob Hancox, deputy director of the Dunedin Research Unit.

February 22nd, 2007 Harry Potter and The Order of Hackers Everytime a new Harry Potter book comes out there is an unannounced competition within hackers to be the first to scan it (ocr it) and post it online. Russian servers are an obvious choice as they are harder to track and shutdown.

June 19th, 2005 I never thought I would rejoice the arrival of monsoon (rainy season) as much as I did this year. The summer was exceptionally hot with temparatures rising upto 55 C (Centigrade) in parts of Orissa and 50C+ in Ranchi district in West Bengal.

July 18th, 2006 Starting this Wednesday, the Hong Kong government plans to have 200,000 youths search Internet discussion sites for illegal copies of copyrighted songs and movies, and report them to the authorities. The campaign has delighted the entertainment industry, but prompted misgivings among some civil liberties advocates.

April 17th, 2007 Killers like Cho Seung-hui aren't made in heaven or hell. They are ordinary people who face ordinary social crisis like abandonment of girlfriends.

November 5th, 2006 Batman has grown old, very old. Most of his crime-fighting colleagues have passed on years ago.

August 28th, 2006 The parents of 17-year-old Liam Ashley wanted to teach him a lesson for taking his mother's car without permission. They charged him with theft.

May 28th, 2007 BCCI (Board of Chaos for Cricket in India) cricket team lead by an w%$^ (only words I can think of are non-parliamentary) won over cricket minions Bangladesh and are back to thumping their pathetic little chests. What is interesting is that these ant-killers wimped out when playing a man's game in West Indies.