Yes indeed, don’t think I’m all nice & sweet, come meet the Hypocrite that is me.
I did today - and let me tell you, I wasn’t happy at all meeting her. But perhaps I should start at the beginning.
One of my closest friends is a guy named Hal. He’s as diametrically opposite to me as [...]
Here’s the back story for those who aren’t yet aware of the “facts” as we know them at this point:
Pretty, blonde, 15 year old Scarlett Keeling, a Britisher from Bideford, Devon was with her mother, her mother’s boyfriend and six other siblings on a six month vacation in India. At some point the mother [...]
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Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. As uranium ore is mostly present at relatively low concentrations, most uranium mining is very volume-intensive, and thus tends to be undertaken as open-pit mining. It is also undertaken in only a small number of countries of the world, as the resource [...]
Kolkata, the City of Joy, is also home to some of the largest slums in Asia with up to 40 percent of the city’s 13 million residents living in slums.
Slums in Kolkata are both registered (also known as Bustees) and unregistered.
The inhabitants of the slums in Kolkata range from groups who have been living in [...]
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A few days ago a friend of mine from the Czech Republic,
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Remember the Richard Gere kisses Shilpa Shetty (on the cheek) controversy?
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Remember the protests in Varanasi and other parts of the country by people who thought it was “Indecent”, “Obscene” and “Vulgar”? Varanasi saw possibly the most widespread protests with Shilpa “fans” burning effigy of Gere at Luxa crossing.
Remember some protesters even marching down streets with [...]
The very name Varanasi conjures up images of the word “Holiness” for most Indians.
However when I think of Varanasi I remember all the controversy over Deepa Mehta’s film “Water”.
It still makes me wonder, that in a land of “free speech” and “liberty of thought and expression” why people react so negatively to things they do [...]
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