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I've got stuck to wikipedia for some time as I'm in search for a vast variety of topics these days..Ranging from Probability distributions to Indian history, i've been reading a lot .. Compared to google, if u know the exact phrase to be searched, wiki is a better option. 99% of the searches in wiki will get the correct pages. If it doesnt have info , it clearly says that. And many of the google searches invariably lead to wiki. I think this is perhaps the tool which will challenge the hegemony of google once it gets popular among the average user... A bit busy, so an abrupt stop to the blog today... Ajith

True to the spirit of being world's largest democracy, you can find political parties of all sorts of names and fashions.... Whenever a split comes in a political party, ppl tend to form new parties taking bits and peices from the list of words which goes like this -- 'Nationalistic, Democratic,Rashtriya, Congress,Samaj, Dal,socialist....It goes on' .You can find parties which do sense or have no knowledge about their names.... The party formed on the ideals of erstwhile Ram Manohar Lohya, perhaps the greatest socialist India has produced indulging in caste based politics..The parties bearing a religion's name and even restricting the primary membership of that party to one particular religion claiming to be a secular party, people who were brought to the forefront by the great JayaPrakash Narayanan organising perhaps the second biggest corruption scandal in India ( The first place goes to Abdul Karim Telgi ,undoubtedly ), the so called NCP allyin...

There are two basic things that an average human being tends to strive for .. 1. To acquire money, position, fame ... 2. To find a companion of opposite sex ... I would say, these are complimentary. When the seriousness of career gets into one's head, the second tendency will subside... And once u find a companion, the first tendency will be very limited.. As today's globalised world implies, there is competition and marketing in all the segments. You cannot blame Archies or for that matter anyone , who popularised this concept in India. Its their right to do whatever business they want... But the bad point is that, this has influenced even children . Yesterday, i phoned home to find that my brothers( they're in 8th ) are excited abt these celebrations..They say that entire class ..mind you, 8th std ... is excited.. Isnt it a little bit early.. "The fourth estate doing too much ?? " . I dont advocate moral policing, because I'm a firm ...