Posts under Tag: India
Who came first? Chicken or the Egg?
chicken-egg

What came first? Chicken or an Egg? Is it only a Metaphor? What does evolution and science has to say about this puzzle? Is this still a mystery or is there an answer to this puzzle?

By Gurudev with 3 comments
Origin and History of Cow Slaughter and Beef Eating in India
calf-milk

Before the British came to India, the Muslims of India were not eating Beef. All muslim rulers of India including Mughals had banned Cow Slaughter in their kingdoms. It was Robert Clive who started the first slaughter house in India at Calcutta with the intention of breaking the back of the prosperous Indian agriculture.

By Gurudev with 29 comments
Sugar – A Sweet Indian Gift to the World

The most popular sweetener in the world – Sugar – was invented in India. Prior to the introduction of Sugar in the west, the most popular sweetener in the western world was – HONEY!

By Gurudev with 8 comments
India I Cry – Remo Fernandes

India, I cry
I cry, India

You were the world’s spiritual flower,
Now you’re just a starving nuclear power.

We’ve built the tall, ivory tower
While the slums outside, grow by the hour. – Remo Fernandes

By Gurudev with 3 comments
The Pros and Cons of Elections 2009

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” More so in the Indian context as we saw in the previous parliaments. A left block with 10% of the total seats used to dictate the government’s economic and foreign policies. Blocks of Mamatas Mayawatis and Jayalalithas [...]

By Gurudev with 4 comments
When Intuition overtakes Investigation

I don’t so much mind that newspapers are dying-it’s watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. – Molly Ivins Soon after the recent mumbai terror attacks in India, immediately after the lone terrorist in the attacking group, Ajmal Amir Kasab was captured by the Indian authorities on the spot of the carnage, it was revealed by him that he [...]

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India Enters Deep Space

About 30 Kms away from the IT capital of India – Bangalore – lies a small village called Byalalu. Here if you ask the villagers, about what their village is well known for – the reply you receive will be – we get good rainfall here, people here work very hard and the farmers grow abundant agricultural crops…. Next if [...]

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Shame Shame Amitabh

Amitabh Bachchan campains for the tainted Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh terming it falsely as a state with low crime rate.

By Gurudev with 12 comments
Realising the Great Indian Dream – Part I

The requirements, suggestions to create a super power out of India.

By Gurudev with 2 comments
Who is an OBC?

The history of the birth of OBC castes in India which were created for mere political gains by V P Singh and Co.

By Gurudev with 20 comments
Mr Vinod Mehta: Please Talk Sense

Vinod Mehta of Outlook tries to fool people by equating caste based reservations in India with affirmative action in US (United States of America)

By Gurudev with 8 comments
Nehru on Reservations

Nehru regarded caste based reservations as a step backward and was of the opinion that it would create a second class inferior knowledge society in India.

By Gurudev with 0 comments
Simple Question – No Answer

Is it fair to provide caste based reservations when the real cause for lack of opportunity is economical with poor parents being unable to provide quality education to their children. Shouldn’t reservations if really required be based on economic condition of people instead of caste. Is poverty limited only to lower castes? Are all upper caste people rich?

By Gurudev with 1 comment
Can we grow teachers on trees?

How can caste based reservations be implemented in higher education like IIT and IIM without cutting down on the current general merit quota when there is a shortage of qualified professors to teach?

By Gurudev with 2 comments
Reservation in Private Sector

Brain drain in India due to reservation politics which deprive talented merit students of their right to quality higher education based on caste based discrimination.

By Gurudev with 10 comments
Politics of Defection

Anti Defection law in India passed by NDA government to prevent opportunistic politicians from crossing over between political parties without getting relected.

By Gurudev with 1 comment
An Innovative Farmer

An Indian farmer’s simple but effective innovation to increase the yield of crops without resorting to any hitech technology by just swapping the top soil with the one at the bottom.

By Gurudev with 4 comments
Anvils and Hammers

The transition of India from a poverty ridden nation to an economic superpower with the creation of one of the world’s largest knowledge industries.

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Is India Iran Gas Pipeline feasible?

How can a gas pipeline that moves through a terrorism ridden nation like Pakistan be feasible without the fear of being held at ransom by the terror groups and the state agencies which sponsor these groups like ISI and Pakistani Military?

By Gurudev with 3 comments
Swadeshi

The movement to encourage products of world class quality in India by not just buying Made in India products, but by reviving innovation and enterpreunership and encouraging world class ideas and products.

By Gurudev with 4 comments
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