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india

A collection of 20 issues

Conversion in India

There is a great debate happening on "Rare Book Society of India" group on facebook. Some one has come up with a book detailing how western powers are financing identity politics in the garb of humanitarian work for dalits and Dravidian folks in India. All this to undermine

Salute to the great man

Today be the birthday of Dr. B R Ambedkar. I guess its time we start remembering people we can be really proud of as Indians. Some of his quotes: “History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known

Soni Sori, Lingaram Kodopi And The Chhattisgarh Story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soni_Sori https://duckduckgo.com/?q=soni+sori https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=soni+sori&tbs=imgo:1&sei=... Image Source: https://archive.tehelka.com/channels/News/2012/Mar/31/images/desert.jpg

Stand By Me Around The World

Great songs unite. Christmas Mubaraq & Happy New Year! Stand By Me. I hope, in the coming year we become better human beings, especially better Indians. I hope we would give up the temptation of superiority/persecution in the name of race, cast, creed, language, religion, region, numbers et. al.

Patriotism 101

So the other we celebrated the 60th anniversary of our independence (August 15th). I am glad to see even the rich and upper middle class people are now proud to be Indian etc. They even show a TV ad in which the guy refuses a foreign companies offer, goes around

Holi etc...

Picture by: bahlsonu (Flickr)We can, and we do, go to any ones house and make a grab at the women, So the other day it was Holi… a major north Indian Aryan color throwing festival. People get “hi” on local pot and liquor and roam around the streets painting

QTech Inc. People, India

These are the people I work with every day. Recently we released our second produce called reQall (first being speaQ ) and (ahem... ahem...) its been making some news I must say. Check: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc... This is the first time I have been a part

Condom Vending Machines (CVMs)

Condom Vending Machines (CVMs) Originally uploaded by hpk. So the other day - in a fit of hope and youthful vitality which is common around Valentine's day - I thought I'll quikly grab a few condoms from our friendly neighborhood condom vending machine a.k.a.

Make films not cars

Source: OK/Cancel (excellent website for UX humor) Though, India has had a rich design culture and we've had a design institute for more then 40 years now. For what ever reasons, design in India means NIFT and fashion design. The image of a gay man passionately talking

Paanch Saal Baad

In my first year at NID, I made this video to pass it off as my user studies project... ;) It worked too. But now as NID convocation (graduation) day is coming close (Dec 7), I thought its time to put this up as a lot of the graduating students are