pankajspider

pankajspider

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From the land of elephants and snake charmers to the land of shit-swimming slumdogs... Indian media goes hysterical! And Indian politicians remain as shameless as ever! The Oscars have been won – as expected! And it sure was a pleasure to hear Resul Pookutty speak about the power of silence and Om, and give Hollywood a chalk-talk lesson or two about Indian philosophy. It was also a great feeling to see the Indian living legend – A R Rahman –

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The verdict on Saddam is out. The striking aspect of this news coverage were the two contrasting scenarios that evolved in most of the media reports globally. One was that of the celebration (on account of the verdict) within the Shia community of Baghdad, while the other was the contrast of despair and angst amongst the Sunnis. This, perhaps, is not just about Baghdad alone. Throughout the world, reactions have been divided between the Shias or Sunnis. And I ha

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I still remember the early morning of November 4, 2008, as the US Presidential election results started pouring in, I realized that something unbelievably historic was happening in America. I just couldn’t stop wondering how a Black – African American (since so many mails and messages have told me!) – could become the President of th

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The emperor’s new clothes! That’s “Slumdog Millionaire” for you… Five minutes into this celebrated patchwork of illogical clichés and you are struck by the jarring dialogues. The cumbersome delivery in a language which doesn’t come naturally to most of the actors sounds like someone scratching on walls with one’s finger nails; it ruins the possibility of a connection… Had this film been made by a

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For the last few days, since the beginning of the Israeli military operations in Gaza, media – both print and television – has been riddled with scores of pictures of Palestinian kids, grievously injured in the air attacks by Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF. And every time I have seen those pictures, I have felt revulsion towards the blitzkrieg that has been launched by Israel to take the fangs out of Hamas. Yet, ironically, when I tried to

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I write this not as my editorial, but as a protest to see if there are any listeners… because my blood boils in anger over the way another human being in the world’s largest democracy is being robbed of her freedom of speech. And the way everyone from the mainstream media to intelligentsia has maintained the conspiracy of silence! Taslima Nasreen, the author of famous books like Lajja and Dwi

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Well, no prizes for guessing, you get some blindly dictatorial American laws for the globe. In fact, this time, President Bush and his ‘Administration’ have surpassed all the limits of deforming any civilised society by claiming that they can ‘kidnap’ any foreigner, if they are wanted for crimes in the United States of America. What more, they have the sanction of their Supreme Cou

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The US should have a special ‘Thanks giving day’ for India, looking at the manner in which premier Indian Institutions have been supplying talented manpower to them, absolutely free of cost!!! I repeat, absolutely free of cost! And from a pool of amazingly brilliant students across India! For long I have been advocating the fact that the Government of India should levy a tax from all those students of the country’s premier institutions who go o

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The ghost of possible nuclear holocaust in South Asia simply refuses to die down. While in the last few years the chances of a nuclear catastrophe have come down considerably, time and again some or the other incidence has kept the region in perennial tenterhooks. The recent revelation that Pakistan is building a third nuclear reactor comes as a shocker and adds to the existing paranoia. Well if Pakistan puts forward the contention that it is building

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Castro, ChÁvez and now the entire Latin America is showing that it is time for the world to get together and embrace happy capitalism After celebrating the execution of Saddam and (almost) writing the obituary of Fidel Castro, the US was sitting pretty and eying an opportunity to engage with Iran. But, the ha

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India, for all the hype of being the second fastest growing economy of the world, with one of the largest foreign exchange reserves, still remains among the bracketed nations where having a decent home remains an elusive dream for millions. In most of the metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bengalooru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune and even Kolkata, the price of having a decent dwelling today is beyond the

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This time, when I was actually thinking about the issue to cover in the TSI editorial, I had initially thought about writing how the Americans exhibited the true essence of democracy and proved that even if the American government might be inhuman in more than one ways, the common American is still left with humanity within himself. But at the last moment, I had to change my plan when I had a chance to glimpse through the latest copy of UNDP’s Human Develo

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Apart from the culture curry and the rural drive, Ahmedabad students also experienced and relived one of the greatest successful revolutionary stories in India, when they got an opportunity to visit the manufacturing unit of Amul and the corporate office of GCMMF. Students were taken to a museum, which has been dedicated to the Dairy industry, and it was established way back in the year 2

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A Management Degree With A Difference ONE WOULD wonder how different another management institute offering the same Management degree be different from similar zillion others which have mushroomed all over the country The Indian Institute of Planning And Management (IIPM), insists Dr. M. K. Chaudhuri, Director IIPM, is miles apart fro

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Infrastructure The 8 Wi-Fi IIPM Towers are modern architectural wonders equipped with air-conditioned classrooms, auditoriums, huge state-of-the-art computer dromes & well stocked libraries. Each student is also given a laptop computer to accelerate the learning pro

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Work hard through the day and then loosen up with SALSA!!! This is what we believe in IIPM because after all – All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy right? On the 24 and 25th of November, the Cult Club organized a Salsa event which was held at our very own campus. Mr. Ashley, a professional Salsa performer and choreographer thoroughly enjoyed his time spent teaching students the basics of Salsa. This first ever attempt taken was indeed a huge success as

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Action Shoes And Footwear On 17th November, 2007 50 IIPM students of fall winter batch went to ACTION SHOES AND FOOTWEAR Factory Located at Peragarhi, New Delhi. The session started with the corporate office visit of action shoes followed by the exclusive factory outlet and ended at the research and development department. Mr. Ankur bhatnagar-manager business development started the presentation with the introduction of the action journ

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