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Well Said, President Barack Obama!   US President's address to US (10-Sep-2013)   No to gas chambers! World community mustn't allow the mass killings with chemicals! Valdimir Putin , the 70 billion dollar rogue dictator, surely, knows that Obama isn't bluffing! Finally, after stifling the UN, in face of certain consequences, Russia is trying to save its ally - the Syrian tyrant Assad. Russia and China, has not allowed UN to intervene effectively. In the face of clear evidence, they could have built a consensus in the UN to ensure that all chemical weapons in Syria are located and destroyed. That chemical weapons have been freely used is amply demonstrated by the horrific deaths of hundreds in more than one incident.  Russia, BTW, has the notorious distinction of using poison gas in a hostage crisis , when nearly 40-odd suspected armed Chechen rebels took 850 hostages in the Dubrovka Theater, Moscow on 23-Oct-2002. In the official use of poison gas, nearly 130 hos
Belated Reactions to the Poverty Debate Uncouth politicians apart, I am appalled by the misleading discussion by well-informed academics to score cheap brownie points and hog prime time TV limelight. Mihir Shah (The Hindu, 5-Aug-2013) benevolently laments: "There could not be a more ridiculous tragedy of errors on all sides." But this spectacle is surely neither comedy nor tragedy; it involves unethical and unprofessional populist posturing to the point of being utterly disgusting! In one debate (in one of the previous rounds) there was a well-known academic (don't recall the name) who came into the studio flaunting a pouch of the costliest available full-cream milk in Delhi so that the idiots in audience like me shouldn't miss her much laboured point. She dramatically waves that and thunders: How can a mother buy her hungry child a pouch of milk if her "income" is as "prescribed" by planning commission experts? What, indeed, can the poor BPL
Tributes to Dr Amar Bose, founder Bose Corporation   (11-Feb-1929 -- 12-Jul-2013) Dr Amar Bose, 83, died on July 12,Wayland, Massachusetts. Bose Corp. is the maker of some of the best sound systems in the world. Perhaps, Dr Bose was to acoustic engineering and design, what Steve Jobs was to computing. Very different personality. But he brought in disruptive innovation. The presence of Bose Systems was felt by the sound, not through any visual flamboyance of the product. Some of the systems were totally hidden. Understated elegance with unparalleled sound quality. They were expensive, premium products meant for those who really cared a great deal about sound quality and were willing to pay for it. Bose Corporation is a privately held company, with majority shares given to MIT, by Dr Bose. The dividends support education and research. I finally became a proud owner of a Bose system only recently, when I managed to get a modestly priced product at a Bose store. On that day there wa
Answer ain't blowing in the wind How many puppies must a car run over Before it stops to shed a tear? How many sweet lies must float Before you see the tip of bitter truth? How many thefts Before one real thief is caught? How many encounters to go Before some light on one cold-blooded fake? The answer, my friend Sadly, ain't blowing in the wind! Wool, my friend, is all over your eyes It ain't what it seems But the din of lies Lies: colorful and white Tweeted, posted, printed and, liked Streamed, shared, re-shared, flashed And, doubly faked Richly cooked Optimized on search engines You'll never know But, answer, my friend, we got to find! [ With apologies to Bob Dylan ]