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I have been driving four wheelers for around 10 years and I have observed multiple type of behaviours from other drivers on traffic signals. Here I am listing down multiple types of drivers that I have seen.

The most common variety of drivers that I have seen is the group of people who never stop at [...]

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We all agree that terrorism is bad and fighting it is extremely difficult. How does one save himself from somebody who is willing to die to kill you. Police are not really very credible in India but still they are the only defense that we have and to a large extent we will have to [...]

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Somehow modesty seems to be in such short supply now-a-days. See this from Hamilton.
“I have had a talent since I was very young and it was just a case of taking that talent and grabbing it with both hands and nurturing it and trying to do the very best job I can.”
Anyway, I don’t really [...]

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Some time back I blogged about spoon counters.. They seem to be hard at work. Not only they have not stopped counting, they have still not learnt how to count it right.

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See this news item here which showed up in Indian Express just after Large Hadron Collider. Just to get a juicy headline, the news paper claims “prove rumours wrong”. Now, I don’t believe that the LHC experiment is going to end the world but the time has not come to say that rumours have been [...]

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Some people never learn. Here is an interesting news story that I saw in today’s news paper.
The CCTV footage showed how Bhatia manoeuvred to steal the wallet, trying to make sure that no one around noticed him while carrying out the act, official said.”First he waited for Mehta to proceed ahead. Then he looked around [...]

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Finally the NSG approved the waiver for India for civilian nuclear cooperation and the reactions have been usual. Now I can go an try to analyse if it was good for India or not but I thought let’s look at the reactions and probably that would give the indication on whether it was good or [...]

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Here is an interesting story. An airbus from Air India had an unlikely passenger on board. A snake was having fun in plane below one of the seats. The best part is the interesting statement from Air India spokesman.
“There was commotion which scared the snake and it went further inside,” an airport official quoted.
Reports that [...]

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Here is an interesting story, Vladimir Putin actually tranquilized a tiger who charged at a TV crew.
Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew, the country’s main television station said. Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated [...]

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