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Historical Sites under Scrutiny

Indian Express is running a fine series on the state of our world-heritage monuments. They presented two contrasting case studies over the past weekend; one in Sanchi and the other in Aurangabad — the...

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Tiananmen Remembered

Lest we forget. Remembering the Tiananmen Square massacre; one of the greatest travesty on the spirit of democracy and freedom of expression. Full-content RSS feed. For stories on the web worth...

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10 Vital Days

Ten days that changed America. I am surprised they left out 9/11 or Al Gore’s defeat to Bush. I bet history will tell a different story. Full-content RSS feed. For stories on the web worth reading, use...

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Gandhi: Rare Videos

The power of YouTube is evident when we come across wonderful gems of modern history. Via Digg, I found a link to clips of Gandhi from the pre-independence era. This clip is a montage of his life when...

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Everything is Illuminated

“I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say,...

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Matheran Train completes 100 years

Matheran has been the favorite ‘hill-station’ for Mumbaites and thanks to its proximity to the city, it is quite popular. Matheran is also one of the rare places in the world that aren’t open to...

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How does the future look?

Many futuristic movies show flying cars and climate-controlled cities on far-flung planets. Even the first Terminator had predicted robots going to war against mankind as early as 1997 but thankfully...

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Last Supper Up Close

Zoom into your favorite details of the Last Supper. Is that really a woman, as Dan Brown said? Nope, you cannot look under the table. Note that I am only at 13% zoom-in. Pretty cool, eh? Full-content...

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Bhagat Singh – a terrorist?

In the recently-concluded general studies paper of the UPSC’s Civil Services exam, candidates saw a strange question that asked them to evaluate the contribution of revolutionary terrorism represented...

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Divided States of Americas

What if it wasn’t really the United States of America? Full-content RSS feed. For stories on the web worth reading, use this feed. © patrix, 2007. | No comment Post tags:

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Wedding at Bhubhaneshwar – Part Eight

Bhubhaneshwar, Konark, and Puri form a neat triangle in a travel itinerary (much like Mumbai, Pune, and Nashik but smaller) and can easily be visited in a day. But only if you manage your time well and...

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Thoughts on India After Gandhi

Given the number of blog posts, magazine (and journal) articles, and news reports I read these days, I had almost given up on books with more than 300 pages often citing attention deficit as a lame...

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Offshore Excursion – Tulum Ruins in Mexico

This is the concluding part of the narrative of our honeymoon cruise. I had written earlier on the dining options and the activities & entertainment aboard Carnival Conquest and later shared our...

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Your Slice of History

Like thousands of others, I too got the idea of picking up a dead-tree edition of a newspaper to preserve the moment of Obama’s victory. I drove out to the local Starbucks at 7am and picked up a copy...

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