To make certain determinations and resolutions at the arrival of New Year is such a normal trend. Everybody wants to improve his routine life, everybody knows what wrong in going on and everybody further knows that if he determines to change certain attitudes, his life will improve and hence almost every second person resolute at the new year eve, to change himself and to improve. Than comes the part when he realizes that he fell back into most of his old habits by the January 15th, he almost forgets his resolution and gives up on them. Continue reading

Indian state is as much a natural conception as it is a political planned fertilization of the diverse linguistically different regions of an area whose only common identity before the unification by the British was the same racial and religious identity. India as a unified state never existed in history, and it never had a common binding factor that unites all its populace regardless of race, cast religion or linguistic identity. The British unification of India not only united the geographical region, but, for the first time in history, it provided them a reason to unite, against the common enemy, the foreign invaders. However, as soon as it was clear that the fight was won, the leaders now had to provide a separate reason for which the state must continue its unified existence, and bar the Muslim League, nobody could propose a clear and distinct definition of what India was going to be like. Continue reading

War has a Role in Peace
While accepting “Noble Peace Prize” at Oslo, Obama did not forget to mention his recent decision to escalate conflict in Afghanistan soil. He further argued that his decision to increase 30,000 some more US troops in Afghanistan is justified to protect the world from terrorism and extremism and to maintain peace.
In short, Obama declared that wars are essential for the establishment of peace. He also paid his tribute to his “Heroes” Mahatma Gandhi and civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
Some will say that Obama wrongly mentioning Mahatma Gandhi as his ideal; Mahatma Gandhi obviously is known as apostle of peace and pacifism. How could a Gandhian support wars? Could Gandhi be a supporter of wars? Are not wars the ultimate and most excruciating form of violence? Continue reading

Some politicians have shown there concern and have suggested to avoid any such clash. It sounds a little funny. Will the electorate choose to entertain themselves with the romance of 20 over limited cricket match, or will they look forward to cast their vote and decide for the leader of their fates for another five year span.
It is an interestingly strange point of democratic period when the politicians are sincerely worried whether they will succeed to bring the voters out of their houses to choose for a government and its new representative. They fear that some cricket match may decrease the percentage of votes.
Elections are the festivals of democracy, and voting is not only a ritual, yet it is an important activity that can be expressed as right of the voters as well as his duty.
Often we choose the better option between the available, yet the socio-political conditions of a country or even a constituency may force the electorate to choose for the lesser evil.
India at present is drastically suffering from any strong base of leaders and Indian politicians doesn’t have any major issue to stage a platform to bring about some certain magical “change”. May be that is why the fuss about the clash of dates of elections and IPL matches is more real. Continue reading

India is well-known as an outsourcing hub, we provide customer services, tech support, IT services, and we provide surrogate mothers too.
The basic reason for growing outsourcing services is India provides satisfyingly efficient workers at much lower cost. India not only provides a number of successful IVF clinics with excellent technology and services, there are many women willing to provide surrogate services. According to some estimates, Indian surrogacy market is already a whooping $445 million a year. No wonder India is already gaining fame as the cradle of the world, poised to become the surrogacy outsourcing capital.
Not only foreigners visit India for gaining cheaper medical services, foreign couples suffering from infertility are gaining interest in India because of the same reason. Surrogacy costs about $12,000 in India, including surrogate mother’s fees and all medical expenses. In the U.S., the same procedure can cost up to $70,000. Continue reading

Thus, some association of hairdressers won the issue of censoring the word barber and announcing it as “derogatory”.
Will they try to remove the word “barber” from dictionaries too?
One may wonder what is so defamatory about the word barber, and I am sure no one will get any answer to the question, why using barber in a movie title is derogatory?
Can anyone suggest what is so derogatory about the profession of a barber, or being a barber?
Well, there is no possible answer to that. A barber earns his living honestly; it is obviously respectable and honourable. He is not looting or mooching anyone.
So how it can be derogatory?
It can be derogatory in India though, and obviously, Continue reading

Date rape is a case, where the victim is well known and often friendly with the accused, where she chooses to enjoy, meet, and party with the accused voluntarily. Now, in some such party, under the affect of smoke and a little light alcohol, if they chose to have some little sexy fun, and after the initial stages of approval, girl said “Stop” and the boy failed to stop fast enough, it becomes a rape, a Date Rape.
Now sometimes, in some cases, the boy is really a brute justifiably accused of rape. Sometimes, it may be just a case of ego clash and the girl may not be the victim as she claims to be. Sometimes, initially the girl was ready for the fun, and she actually enjoyed, but after a little nap, when she actually realized what just happened, she goes to defensive mode and claims a rape, sending the college boy who was her earnest friend to prison for an offense, which we consider as the first-degree-felony. Continue reading

The editorial of Times of India claimed that the rich Industrial countries shifted the demon of cancer to India by banning cigarettes in industrialized countries, hence pushing cigarette companies to India.
It all seems nationalistic, like the supporters of ban on cigarettes are the true well-wishers of man-kind, more of Indian man-kind.
What these people forget is smoking is not new to India. Indians are smoking since ages, smoking afeem, using bhang are too common for Indians. They also forget that India is third largest producer and exporter of tobacco.
Again, the editorial of Times of India claims that by the advent of cigarette companies, cancer rates increased in India.
As a matter of fact, it can not be true. Scientific studies suggest that Cigarettes are much less harmful than local Bidi’s. We all know that Indians consumes Bidis more even now. Thus, if cancer is increasing it is more because of Bidis. To blame cigarette companies for that is ill-sense. Better cigarettes can surely save the smokers from the dangers of smoking filter less and unchecked cigarettes.
So how valid is the Idea of government to announce bans on smoking? Continue reading

We all live under governmental rule, we both Indians and Pakistanis.
We both suffers the mutual tensions, terrorist strikes, and war like situations, we have suffered during previous wars.
Why do we fight and what for?
Indian government and Indian media are claiming that Pakistan sponsored Mumbai Attacks.
The general question, which arises in mind is, just… Continue reading

Grumpy Growl raised a question “whether a person can love books like they love children?”
The question itself explains the fact that love is selfish. We find certain satisfaction, pleasure, and emotional coherency while reading a book or watching a movie, that is why we love it. We cannot love all books though. We love those books that possess the values we are looking for. We seek for the worth and values its content holds. Continue reading