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July 31, 2009
Category: Creative commons
Sympathy, help, and a positive engagement. - Robert Louis Stevenson. That partial quote is from a fascinating essay called My First Book by the same author. A must read for all young writers. Here's a bit more: The accepted novelist...
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July 27, 2009
Category: Behind Curtains
Even with all it's shortcomings, democracy matters because there is hope of representation for everyone, however poor one is. Unlike this disgusting corruption reported at NY Times that ruins poor young lives in China with no way for them to...
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July 24, 2009
Category: Creative commons
In India snakes charm you. Yes, they do, especially if you are a legislator in Orissa state assembly. Have time to hear a personal anecdote of the charms of snakes? Here we go. When I was about 6 or 7,...
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July 20, 2009
Category: Creative commons
Yesterday night I happened to listen to the BBC programme called The Bottom Line. Mr James Dyson was on. For those who are not aware, he is one of the finest engineers around. His company makes many things, most famous...
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July 18, 2009
Category: Creative commons
Do you think you ought to 'own' your digital content the same way you own material content? Take ebooks from Amazon stored in the Kindle. Recently, Amazon snuck into users Kindle and removed a book with questionable copyright (the book...
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July 16, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
Bill Gates has made it available online. You need to install Silvelight (the flash alternative from Microsoft). It's worth it....
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Category: Creative commons
Recently discovered the works of Raqib Shaw. Raqib Shaw was born in Culcutta, spent his youth in Kashmir and now lives and works in London. There are conflicts at so many levels in Raqib Shaw's paintings that, as we look...
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July 15, 2009
Category: Creative commons
Rock musician Andrew W.K's take on Bach at NPR. For a blissful ten minutes, listen to the linked 'Bandenburg Concerto No.5: Allergro'. You would know that Bach was a deeply religious man. Reminds me of what Harold Bloom said of...
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July 9, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
The world is serendipitous, for those who explore it sideways, that is. Two of them explorers are Dr Richard Wool of University of Delaware and Erman Senöz. One fine day, Dr Wool (is his name a great nominative determinism, or...
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July 8, 2009
Category: Creative commons
Never thought about the cover page of a book as much as I am doing now. With the upcoming TheScian Stories book, all things bookish has become an obsession. Yesterday evening, wife was plugging away at the numerous things that...
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