November 26, 2008: 200 people were killed and more than 327 injured in terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

October 30, 2008: 77 people were killed and more than 150 people were injured in Assam blast.

March 12, 1993: 257 people were killed in a blast in Mumbai

11 July 2006: 209 people were killed during the serial blasts in local trains of Mumbai

And there are more. Within two months, We have seen 300 Indians murdered by terrorists and every day we have prayed to God, "please, no more." Is this the price to pay to be an Indian? Is this why we proudly proclaim ourselves as a citizen of a country that is aspiring to be amongst the most influential countries in the world? Let us not brew the coffee; its time to spill the beans now. But the question is

What should India do?

What options do we have as an Indian?

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Despite the All-India Muslim Women Personal Law Board’s (AIMWPLB) diktat barring men from declaring talaq (divorce) by SMS, email or over the phone, the medium seems to have become the most popular way by which Muslim men are divorcing women in India.

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With each passing day, I find no need to remember the dictionary justified terms like normal, super-human or handicapped. Our english language tells us that a blind man is necessarily handicapped. But what would you call a person who has developed software programs which can read aloud complex solutions of Rubik’s cube, has modified Google search engine for blind users and have worked for Adobe, IBM and now Google? To tell you the least important fact that I have missed out is, he is blind from the age of 14. And the most outrageous revelation is he is going to make a touchscreen mobile phone for blind users. Meet T V Raman.

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Elder parents and new born babies, despite having nothing in common, have one wish quite the same - the desire for independence. That strong will acquires a stubbornness at times and a thing of concern for you. You possibly can not spend the whole day looking after them in your house or theirs (if they are too indulging not to move from their old memories). So what do you do then? Do you leave the situation as it is, to worsen with time? Or do you quit your job just because your child didn’t find cerelac interesting and starved the whole day? I am here with 10 gadgets that won’t completely solve the problems but will do a world of good for them and for you.

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Here is a nice story on sorting the priorities of life:

A professor stood before his Philosophy class and had some items in front of him.

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Doug Karr, product manager for a "permission-based email service provider" (permission spam?) lays down three interesting rules for understanding differences of race, religion, politics, sex and bigotry: 1. He will never understand others; so he tries to respect things that he doesn't understand. 2. Everyone is different and unique. and 3. Double standards are part of life; so accept it. While they sound very reasonable at first glance, I strongly disagree with all three of them for very fundamental reasons.

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A King had, as only son, a young Prince, brave, skillful and intelligent. To perfect his knowledge of Life, he sent him by the side of an Old Wise Man.

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While cleaning my computer I came across the audio of a very motivating commencement speech by Steve Jobs, delivered to 2005 Stanford graduates. The summary of the speech, in his own words, is: Full article (2507 words) »

"In our families there are the heads; some of them are successful, others are not. Why? We complain of others in our failures. The moment I am unsuccessful, I say, so-and-so is the cause of the failure. In failure, one does not like to confess one's own faults and weaknesses. Each person tries to hold himself faultless and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck. When heads of families fail, they should ask themselves, why it is that some persons manage a family so well and others do not. Then you will find that the difference is owing to the man — his presence, his personality.

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"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.

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