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Comment on Beyond Numbers: Dealing with terrorism in India by kenny

kenny — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:17:26 +0000

bloody indians .always seeing cricket.they only in our world getting entertain of fellow indian misery.you see israel if any attack occured in their territory immediately would retaliate.they are cult people. indians are slowly lossing war against islamic militants.they only bow to pakistan.it seems all indian politicians are ready to sacrifice their citizens to terrorists for their safety and luxurious life. no self respect.what the good indians they are. aren’t they?

Comment on Beyond Numbers: Dealing with terrorism in India by Piyush

Piyush — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:19:15 +0000

For what it is worth, Roy’s “argument”, if it can be called that, was ably demolished in a piece in the same newspaper: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-vanity-of-1312-truthtelling/article4400821.ece

Comment on Beyond Numbers: Dealing with terrorism in India by Srikanth

Srikanth — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:13:37 +0000

A very good observation. Its high time we started treating victims as people… rather than statistics.

But, if we have to learn humanism and sensitization from the west, it cannot be selective. If we want to stop our society to stop producing killers and rapists, their story has to be told too. We might not agree with Arundati Roy on everything, but name-calling and ranting is needless to making a valid point.

Comment on Programming in Linux for newbies by Lavneet Sharma

Lavneet Sharma — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:52:58 +0000

Thank you for the information.
I’m about to begin programming in Linux using C++. Though, I’ve practiced C++ a lot on Windows platform, i still have some doubt regarding the same.
Once, i tried running my program that was build in C++ into Ubuntu but, the code did not execute successfully. It showed me errors all related to my header files, and that’s the main issue.

Can you please tell which are the most common header files that we use in windows platform but are not supported on g++ compiler?

Comment on BlackBerry Controversy in India by Blackberry handing over user data to UK police. Again.

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Comment on Selected Posts by Biplab deka

Biplab deka — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 01:32:07 +0000

Nice look and feel…and nice to see you posting regularly…I need some inspiration to do the same man.

Comment on Book Summary: Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma by Vikram

Vikram — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:17:25 +0000

Thanks for posting a nice summary of the book. I’ve heard several good reviews on this one, and yours is the latest.

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Comment on Book Summary: Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani by QNUPS

QNUPS — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:20:32 +0000

Good insightful piece of writing, you generally think up the most practical
ideas and of course Book Summary: Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani is no exception to this rule.

Comment on Female Foeticide by Circe

Circe — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:55:23 +0000

Typo in my last line: the last line should be “… make it *in* a men’s world…”