The Small Screen

Indian television is immature. So are the audiences. How else can serials with little or absolute illogical, monotonous and sometimes irritating themes manage to continue for years in a row? The same saas-bahu saga, packaged and repackaged, evacuated and refilled with little or no modifications what-so-ever, and the housewives with their eyes hooked on the

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Kiss Of Reconciliation

Seems like the Indian youth has found a new cause to further its fight against violent forms of social repression as it takes stand against moral policing. The protests, which so far have been in the form of public display of affection like hugging or kissing demonstrations in the face of authorities, haven’t caused any

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Open Data – An Antidote to Corruption

Former US President Woodrow Wilson had said, “Government ought to be all outside and no inside… Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.” The openness that Wilson had once envisioned in the early 1900s is being actively sought after

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Swachh Bharat

A businessman, a cricketer, 3 actors, 1 yoga guru, 1 governor and one M.P. what to these people have in common? You must be wondering the same, they are the nine nominees for SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN. On 2nd Oct-2014 the current Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi launched a program to clean India. Now it must

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