Category: Life

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Conflict of Interest and Indian Parliament

This post is not about MPs having conflict of interest. That is a different discussion and some thought has gone into that. What I want to talk about is the Parliament in itself having conflict of interest. Let me elaborate. Parliament (Legislature) in a democracy is elected by people and hence derive their...

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My DNA is out..so what?

Well, At last I took that step a few days back. My raw genome data is out on internet. You can use it for educational, research and related stuff. Of course you can’t use it for insurance, commercial and cloning purposes. On a second thought go ahead and clone me if you can....

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society 5

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

The following is a transcript of the statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning as read by David Coombs at a press conference on Wednesday after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country and the world that...

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Lucia makes it

I know Pawan from BRTFF organizing days. After the first BRTFF, he wrote a mail to the list explaining about firing the producer. I can’t find it online but its in my Inbox (Sun, Jul 8, 2007 at 8:06 PM). I am quoting from it The idea I am trying to play with...

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Telegrams – End of Line

End of Line for Telegrams. How could I not send/receive one? Telegram that Mathang sent to me :) Was a very busy day for Mr. Puttaswamy. He was very nice to all of us. Thank you sir. Good old Standard list of messages.

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Of course Minister

Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid thinks PRISM is nothing to worry about. In his own words “This is not scrutiny and access to actual messages. It is only computer analysis of patterns of calls and emails that are being sent. It is not actually snooping on specifically on content of anybody’s message...