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Stalin Went in to Coma : అంటే/Means?

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"The events depicted in this story are fictitious. Any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental." March 4th 1953 Time 10PM Chennai India When the world kisses goodnight to their kids is when the news dailies turn on their lights."Bharat News" is one such upcoming english daily.The composers are busy composing the headlines.The chief editors reviewing the content on the local edition ,the columnist with the sports page and the cartoonist drawing Nehrujis caricature. Standing at one corner as tall as the machines ,wearing thick glasses and reading the paper keeping it close to his face is "The Boss" who is known for his bad temper.Standing next to him with a intimidated expression on his face is one of the chief editors. The Boss: How in the world can we compete with "The Hindu"  if you keep making such silly mistakes? I have asked you to print... Buffalo is their new party symbol and what did you...

Indian Caste System : Know your history

When i see educated people getting together/ignoring others on the name of caste   Students fighting for their movie heroes in the name of caste   NRIs who have seen the world , splitting in to organizations in the name of caste   People being offered jobs even with out an interview in the name of caste Parents in todays society still looks out for matches in the name of caste Politicians while trying to be demigods exploiting people in the name of caste Have the people who dismiss caste as an inhuman and nazi system, ever attempted to understand its original purpose and genius? Is it really worse than the huge class differences you can see nowadays in Europe? At any rate, we should not allow it to be exploited shamelessly against us, as it has been in the last two centuries, by missionnaries, "secular" historians, Moghuls, and by pre and post-independance Indian politicians - each for their own purpose. The Beautiful Beginning The original social system ...

Philosophy- The Banyan Tree,The Squirrel and You

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Once up on a time not too long ago on the banks of the sacred river Penna was a huge but calm , tall but simple banyan tree.It was so tall that the clouds could rest on its branches.On one of its far spread stems in a beautifully built nest  lived a sparrow happily with its cute family.In a small hole of a close by palm tree lived a squirrel and its sweet little family.As the sparrow finishes meditation and flies away to fetch food every morning the little ones used to chirp him good bye.As months passed by quickly , slowly crawled a beautiful money plant across the trunk and soon reached the tree tops.Unlike the sparrow the money plant is completely dependent on the banyan tree for its food and shelter.Its a Parasite. Every day on its way back the sparrow started bringing home a new friend, who soon would bring his family and build a nest on the big banyan tree .Soon the tree was filled with nests of all the species of birds on this planet.As days progressed, competing wi...

Indian in Harlem:Inspired by my true story.....

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Hope it inspires a few to face any difficulty with determination and know how fortunate they are ....... Long story short..... It was my 3rd day in the US and T-3 days for the touch down.As I return from the SSN office… Jan 19th 2006 Afternoon Md Shiv kumars Chamber knock knock!! Heah come on in Bharath ,how are things going.Ready for an interview?.There is a huge business opportunity .There is a company Equalizer group in New york which along with some major partners like coke ,jp morgan etc are planning to conduct a training program to a group of economically backward students who then will have to work on a project for Coke and will be placed . I knew that working with out an SSN is illegal in the US.How are they gonna run my pay stub?.Even then I am Sold!!.The next day I was selected even with out an interview which is kind of fishy but all I wanted is to see my first pay stub and so….. After a 45 min drive there was a 5 min stop over in jersey city before we c...