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Dec 31, 2009 Bay Area Edition Vol. 5 No. 19

Events  
There are 32 upcoming events listed in our Bay Area calendar. Click here for calendar.

Happy New Year
Team Indogram wishes Gram Sabha readers a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2010!

News
An alert passenger foiled a Nigerian trying to set on fire a Delta Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. The would-be bomber got on the plane without luggage, paying in cash for a one-way ticket. One report says he did not even have a passport!
Silence of the lambkins
What exactly will it take to outrage the American people? Two foreign wars while the country runs double-digit unemployment and trillion dollar deficits? Not even that. Britain, is holding an inquiry into how it got drawn into the Iraq war. Paul Craig Roberts wonders if Americans just don't care. More...

The Parade of Indian Holidays
Whatever the ranking order in other international comparisons, in the matter of holidays there is only one champion, and that is Mother India, as Aakar Patel notes in his survey of Indian holidays. More...

The Timeless Question
What is Time? There's biological time, there's geological time, there's psychological time and a whole other varieties of time. And then there's good old clock time. Venkat Ramanan explores the nature of time as seen from both physics and literature. More...

Looking back on the Naughties
How will look back at the first decade of the millenium? Quite appropriately named the 'naughties', the decade was rich in frolic, some of it merely entertaining, some of it sordid, flecked with outright criminality, all of it oiled with galloping technology. Melvin Durai with his view of the 2000's. More...


Movies    
There are 5 movies playing in Bay Area. Details...
Welcoming 2010

Saving the Environment

   Reducing Global Warming

Eschewing Violence

   Spreading Love and Compassion

Helping the Needy

   Should be our Concern

This New Year.


May this be a wholehearted venture.

--Vasantha Ramakrishnan

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