Was "India's Daughter" a good documentary? Did it deal with a matter that is sub judice? Was at least one of the convicted rapists paid for his interview? Should the defence lawyers be banned ( Read more... )

Every day, in the newspapers, there is one terrorist attack, which fills us with fear and sadness. I also realized that every day's newspapers are the same...they contain ( Read more... )

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and here We had an earthquake in the St.Louis area this morning! I was awake, but I certainly didn't seem to feel anything...I guess I am not sensitive enough to feel the earth moving (though I *have* felt earlier tremors in Kolkata, and Bangalore, when usually people didn't believe me ( Read more... )

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I have, for a change, been watching TV (usually I tape a couple of programs like the Tonight Show or Thein KiNNam and watch it at some point, that's all) and had tuned into NDTV...and I feel so bad...a teacher is accused of making a pornographic movie with her students; a child dies because the ambulance is stuck in a traffic jam on the way to ( Read more... )

When I went to meet the people who were taking the Naturalists' Training Program, at the JLR property in Bannerghatta in May this year, I found every one fascinated by the mud nest that a Mason Wasp (also called a Potter Wasp, for reasons obvious below) had built. She proceeded to lay her eggs and then brought a paralyzed caterpillar which she ( Read more... )

Work is going on hectically for the past 2 days, since it was announced that the flyover next to our home will be opened on Monday. Well, at LAST ( Read more... )