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In spite of a high decibel public awareness campaign about voting, it is disheartening to see lower voter turn outs in most states. Of course, there is an increase in the young voter numbers. But the larger voter turnout among this group seems to have been canceled out by the smaller number of voters from [...]

Sometime in the 1960’s a cricket test match was in progress at the Eden Gardens in Kolkatta. At a very tense moment in the match the umpire gave an LBW decision against an Indian batsman. With this decision, the match went out of India’s hands. The crowd which was obviously rooting for India erupted in [...]

There is a joke going around on the web. An American went visiting India. On his return, his NRI friend asks him how he found the Indians.The American replies laconically that everywhere he went he met Tamilians, Punjabis, Sindhis. Telugus, Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Sikhs etc. “I did not meet any Indians,” he said. There is [...]

My friend Katyal says that he had flown from the US to Jaipur just to see a cricket match between India and Pakistan. He checked into a five star hotel in Jaipur, refreshed himself and took the lift to the bar. He was both shocked and amazed to see that the bar was full of [...]