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Barack Obama

Obama is probably the best POTUS that I have seen in my lifetime. When he ran for his for office first time in 2008, I followed him everywhere on-line. Even though I had my doubts I wished US will choose its first black president. When he got elected I couldn’t believe myself but...

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Book: The Annihilation of Caste

“The Annihilation of Caste” was supposed to be delivered at a conference organized by a Hindu reformist group Jat-Pat Todak Mandal in Lahore, 1936. At last-minute the group took back the invitation saying speech was against Hinduism and its shastras. Ambedkar self published the speech as the book. At that point the content...

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RIP: Aaron Swartz

I got to know more about Aaron while using web.py. I think he built it during his stint at Reddit. In fact I am such a big fan of web.py that I use it everywhere including at myswar. I used to follow him on his blog and then his work at DemandProgress. He...

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Shankar Nag – All India Radio Program

Found them on Youtube, Tried my best to remove the noise. Its much much better now. Have fun listening

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Meeting Woz

I didn’t expect it to happen. It was a very happy surprise. Today is one of the most unforgettable days in my life. I am much bigger fan of him now. I knew he was in Bangalore. I knew he was here for a private secretive conference. But he was not really secretive...

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Steve Jobs – We will miss you

Note: I am a Linux guy but Steve Jobs’ story is quite an inspiration.