Kalyani Rampilla - Instablogs
Jan 5 2009
Taliban’s diktats are similar to Hitler’s “ethnic cleansing” and “purity of race”. While the whole world is moving towards Emancipation and Liberation of Women and Equal Rights for Women, these people are hell-bent on...
Dec 5 2008
The Times of India, in its Dec 3rd edition, had published a profile of Ajmal Amir, the 21-year old captured terrorist. The story was quite predictable – a young lad from a very poor family, takes to the life of crime easily to escape form the life...
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Dec 4 2008
The Mumbai massacre has been compared to the 9/11 of US. Anybody and everybody and every channel worth its salt has been bandying about this comparison. It seems to have become more of an attention grabbing statement, if nothing else. If people really...
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Sep 15 2008
As Indians, we have a wide range of customs and traditions handed over the generations. These vary not just across religions and castes but also regions and states. There are very contradictory attitudes towards these customs/traditions, especially...
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Aug 18 2008
One’s signature is a sort of identity, especially for bank accounts, documents etc. It was only recently that I realised that the everyday scrawl that is a taken for granted could put one in the most embarassing of situations. The other day, I had...
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Aug 18 2008
When someone is in distress, how do we react? How do we show our feelings of empathy and sympathy etc. A recent incident set me thinking if our method of trying to help a person in distress may be perceived as interfering or unnecessarily burdening the...
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