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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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So every political party that can claim to be not in government is protesting the oil price hike. At times it is resulting in comedy. Here is an hilarious story.
chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and his cabinet decided to go to work on bicycles in the afternoon.
But the CM’s rally soon fizzled out with most [...]

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So finally blogs outed the patent number 20080122796 filed by Apple which looks like a patent that encapsulates many things that are part of iPhone. The patent itself did not really surprise me, what really surprise me was the list of inventors that are part of this patent. The patent consisted of 20 inventors right [...]

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So this is really a story out of sci-fi story books. Almost unbelievable. When a wife went to file a complaint against her “in-laws”, she realized that she has already  divorced her husband 10 years back. Almost sounds like one of those movies where one can go back in time and change the present as [...]

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Many horrible things that happen in India are blamed on illiteracy prevailing. But sometime one feels that that these happen because some people are just idiots.  See this news item. Here is a couple who is doing these bizarre things.
A British couple, who travelled to India for fertility treatment, abandoned their twin babies in [...]

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Every country in the world is facing oil crisis. In India is is particular severe because it is has become unnecessary political tool in the hands of communists. I think the problem can be solved and it is really not as severe as it has been made out to be. I did some calculation and [...]

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Back in 2007 I blogged about how banks have turned themselves into killing machines. It seems they have not really learnt. See here. This is what courts have to say.
We deem it appropriate to remind the banks and other financial institutions that we live in a civilised country and are governed by the rule of [...]

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I always believed that people who are morons should decide for themselves and opt out of being parents. Today this belief has become more strong.
I am sitting in this really interesting restaurant called “Ada Hind Ki” on museum street and then a couple walks in with a 3 to 4 year old daughter and a [...]

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See this news item. Here is what the article claims.
Gourav Bhattacharya of Mumbai knows how to bell the CAT. He - like only 10-odd other management aspirants all over India - has scored a 100 percentile in the entrance examination to the Indian Institutes of Management.
I am not an expert in calculating percentiles, but I [...]

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