Events 
Wild Grace Kirtan
Jan 28
Andaz
Jan 30
Pushya Bahula Panchami
Jan 30
Tsunami Fundraisers
Swagat Tsunami Fundraiser Dinner
Jan 26
Anand - Telugu Movie
Jan 30
In the News
The UC Bannerjee Inquiry ruled out foulplay in the Godhra train burning.
An exclusive technical inquiry report. More...
Joke Sabha
Honest Cabbies
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Hindi Against India
In the second part of his article commemorating Lal Bahadur Shastri's birth centenary, writer and historian Ramachandra Guha examines Shastri's one huge failure
-- an initial lack of statesmanship on the Hindi issue. In the ensuing contest pitting CN Annadurai and the DMK against Shastri and the Indian Government, Tamilnadu politics was changed forever.
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You've got Mail Spam! -- How did we get here?
"Clearly, the best way to counter spam would have been to withdraw from spammers the lure of huge profits that could be made from
free emails. [Instead], we limited our attention to solutions of a legislative, regulatory, or technical nature." Telecom veteran John Francis
reviews how we
flubbed the opportunity to create a useful tool, and ended up raising a hideous monster instead.
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With apologies to George (Orwell, that is)
Overnight, the world had changed, and it was all about fighting rats. All else would take second place. A strange, even bizarre, world was suddenly upon us, and
things would never be the same again. An updated version of the classic, Animal Farm, dusted off and revised for our times.
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In a few well-chosen words
South Asians learn early that "the pen is mightier than the sword". Many of us wield this inky sword with flourish. We are a subcontinent of
editorial writers and deconstructionists. But what does a writer contribute to the world? A question many writers avoid, but one which troubles Swarna Rajagopalan. More...
A 'Relatively' Sane Outlook
The year 2005 is the centenary of a landmark discovery in science. It was the year Albert Einstein published three papers -- on the photoelectric effect,
on the theory of relativity, and Brownian motion. They changed the nature of Physics. Mahir Ali writes about Einstein's world outlook.
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Movies
Anand (Telugu w/Subtitles) 
Balu (Telugu w/Subtitles)
In(dia)Fact™
Hindus in the UK are starting a
campaign to reclaim the swastika from its Nazi associations. Hindu Forum spokesman Ramesh Kallidai
said the swastika had been a Hindu good luck charm for centuries. The
group will stage public awareness workshops across the UK and lobby
politicians to prevent a ban.
--From Kanak Ravel, Portland, OR
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