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Patrix posted a blog entry

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:43:02 -0800

Busting the Popular Myths of Gujarat’s Prohibition
Myth: Pubs, bars and drinking are against Indian culture. The consumption of alcohol and other intoxicants is as ancient as...
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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:31:46 -0800

A week of carnage
This is the week of carnage. Apparently, God, gods and goddesses have given the sign – they demand blood. Man’s inhumanity...
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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:40:12 -0800

Friday Photo of the Week #81
Ripples on the Reflection [click on image to enlarge] Selected by Arun. Join the DesiPundit India through Flickr group to see...
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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:49:00 -0800

Bali Notes
A month ago I was contemplating a quiet vacation at a resort near Coimbatore and my cousin was looking for an exotic vacation....
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:43:00 -0800

Mushrooms with Bacon and Sage
I made these crazy delicious mushrooms last week. Has a familiar ring to it? Even for my previous post (the...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:28:00 -0800

The King’s Railway
The 50 something man who sat in the lavishly appointed waiting in the brand new train station, looked tired and haggard, but...
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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:34:56 -0800

Films & Feni: Star Gazing
STAR GAZING NOV 28, 2009 – A FILM FESTIVAL ISN’T EXACTLY THE PLACE you’d trawl for stars, so it was a refreshing...
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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:28:32 -0800

Stand up, be counted OR Liberhan’s Law of Unintended Consequences
It seems Justice Liberhan’s contribution to the Indian Political discourse will likely not be his voluminous report as...
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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:02:00 -0800

Some Things I’ve Been Reading
Some things I've been reading recently: "Nineteen Theses On Literature" by the literary scholar Roger Shattuck, the author...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:22:00 -0800

Charles Darwin Has Been Sighted In Pune
Its been 150 years - November 24th 1859 - that Darwin's book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:22:19 -0800

26/11 – just another date….
November has been an eventful month in terms of remembrances. So much so that i have forgotten half the things that we are...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:11:36 -0800

Films & Feni: Couples Therapy
COUPLES THERAPY NOV 26, 2009 – ACCORDING TO MIKA KAURISMÄKI’S The House of Branching Love, the best form of therapy to...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:46:40 -0800

Marking 26/11’s First Anniversary
This blog space intentionally left empty. Lighted Candles strictly...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:45:57 -0800

Remembering 26/11 – the Mumbai Terror Attacks
Tomorrow is the first death anniversary of those who died in the Mumbai Terror Attacks. A reader sent me this video, produced...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:00:44 -0800

The Indus Colony in Mesopotamia – Part 2
(Ziggurat at Ur) Read Part 1 Even though direct trade declined, a large number of foreigners stayed back, adopted local...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:45:57 -0800

Anniversary blues
Tomorrow, we mark the first anniversary of 26/11. Today is an anniversary too, did you know/notice [clearly, this particular...
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:13:15 -0800

Hits and misses
Those who have been watching cricket closely and reporting on it reckon they can tell when Virender Sehwag has been given a...
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:03:15 -0800

Films & Feni: Chaos Theory
CHAOS THEORY NOV 25, 2009 – YOU LUCKY [UNPRINTABLE]! That’s the usual effusion of greeting that comes my way when I...
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:34:31 -0800

Dude where is my report
Liberhan Commission Report is finally in 17 years after the fact. After an express perusal of the 1029 page report we can draw...
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Amit Agarwal - labnol posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:34:58 -0800

Sending Mass Emails Using Gmail? Don’t Get Locked
With the help of Mail Merge in Outlook, you can send out personalized bulk emails using the standard Gmail (or Google Apps with...
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:10:27 -0800

The Indian government’s green channel for the corrupt
The government of India allows corruption. How else could it have become the scourge that it has today? The Prime Minister may...
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:44:26 -0800

Films & Feni: Early Edition
EARLY EDITION NOV 24, 2009 – AS THE DEBATE RAGES ABOUT WHETHER or not the winsome display of Kareena Kapoor’s bare back...
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:28:05 -0800

Superficial Pundits
“When 10 misguided young men held an entire nation to ransom and there was nothing the nation could do except live in...
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Amit Agarwal - labnol posted a blog entry

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:49:54 -0800

An Image Editor Cum Screen Capturing Tool for your USB Drive
PicPick is an all-in-one Windows utility that includes a decent screen capture program, a Paint like image editing software and...
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:15:31 -0800

The Indus Colony in Mesopotamia – Part 1
(Mesopotamia in 2300 B.C.E) After World War 1, the British Museum and the Penn Museum decided to excavate in Iraq. Since...
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