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Art Business India Social

What you didn’t know about diamonds

Why we must give up our obsession with apparently-pretty rocks, for which the supply is artificially reduced and which leads to huge suffering of fellow human beings.

The greatest story ever sold is a fantasy covered in blood

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India Social

Wider recognition of ‘terrorism’ by the world

Wider recognition of ‘terrorism’ by the world, post 9/11, has made a positive impact. “Kashmiri and diplomatic sources say, Pakistan has ended its long time covert support to jihadi militias, support it has never admitted giving.”

Kashmir militants feel the squeeze

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India Innovation Science Social

Can’t find it with search? Ask!

Yahoo! Answers motto – “Can’t find it with search? Ask”. It is simply a bigger version of a typical “news group” with better look and feel; or there is more to it?

Dr. Stephen Hawking asks “How can the human race survive the next hundred years”?

The President of India asks “What should we do to free our planet from terrorism”?

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Business Finance India Technology

A Software Engineer’s perspective of Indian Economy

Balaji’s article is one of the better bits of analysis on the Indian economy I’ve read recently. note: with my financial background hat on!

India’s Scorching Economic Growth

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Business India Technology

15 Most respected Indian companies

Most respected non-government India-based companies in my personal opinion are:

  1. Infosys
  2. Tata Group
  3. Reliance Group

Others alphabetically: Aditya Birla Group, Apollo Hospitals, Bharti, ICICI Bank, Jet Airways, Mindtree Consulting, NDTV, Oberoi and Taj Hotels, Ranbaxy, Rediff and Tally Solutions.

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Health India Social

Yoga and Pranayam re-invented

A lot of controversy surrounds Swami Ramdev, but there is no doubt that he has re-invented Yoga and Pranayam by bringing it to masses – no less than several million people! Personally, I fully concur with his critical views on soft drinks, in particular ones that contain aspartame, which can lead to several fatal diseases.

Re-inventing yoga for the masses

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India Productivity Technology

Google now maps India

Google Maps now include Indian cities! Thanks to Navneet for the tip.

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Art India Travel

Shunya’s travel pictures from India

Interested in Photography? Shunya has some of the best travel pictures of India. Check’em out.

Shunya’s travel pictures from India

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History India Science

NASA on Sanskrit & Artificial Intelligence

I came across this interesting article on Sanskrit and its application in Artificial Intelligence. I managed to understand some aspects of author’s arguments, in part due to my basic understanding of the Sanskrit language. However, significant part of the paper requires academic investigation. Some of the figures have clearly been added to the original text and are out-of-place, for example, the figure that illustrates application of XSL transformations to XML data to generate C header and source files!

Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence

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Finance India

A blossoming or overheated economy?

India’s GDP growth in the July-September quarter rose to 9.2% year on year and this is encouraging, but there are signs of overheating – inflation has nearly doubled over the past 12 months; equity and housing markets look overbought; and the current account has moved sharply into deficit.

India’s blossoming economy