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Aakar Patel
Nobel Peace Prize: Honour Edhi, the Mahatma of our time
Editor's note: The 17th Annual Nobel Peace Prize Festival will be presented by Augsburg College and World Citizen on Friday, 2 March in Minneapolis. The last day for filing nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize was 1 February. Abdus Sattar Edhi has been repeatedly nominated and ignored by the Nobel #Abdul Sattar Edhi #Gandhi #India #Nobel Prize #WhyNow
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Tristan Stewart-Robertson
Syria: Why we can’t afford the death of journalists
For those of us in this profession, there is no worse news than that of the death of a reporter on the front line of news. The deaths of American Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik of France in Syria on Wednesday are just the latest, and will not be the last. Plenty
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Prithwis Mukerjee
From any branch banking to any booth voting
Once upon a time, in a banking scenario far removed from where we are today, one had to visit the specific branch of a bank for any banking transactions. To deposit and withdraw cash or to deposit and encash cheques there was no option but to travel to the branch #ATM #Election Commission #Elections #Identity document #ThisisNext
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Rajyasree Sen
Whiter shade of pale: What are lily-white women doing in Bollywood?
Remember those Charagh Din ads with vapid young foreigners in strangely printed shirts — always white — awkwardly pretending to be Indians? In the last couple of years, Bollywood has gone all Charagh Din with a vengeance, deciding that the best way to sell a celluloid dream to audiences is to #Bollywood #Ekk Deewana Tha #FilmCrit #White skin
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Arjun Parthasarathy
A weak yen means a fresh potential bonanza for equities
The Japanese yen (JPY) has fallen by 3.5 percent against the US dollar (USD) in the calendar year to date to levels of JPY 79.50. The fall in the yen from highs (the yen was trading at over 12-year highs in the second half of 2011) is an ominous sign #Smart Money #Stock Markets #Yen Carry Trade
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Mahesh Vijapurkar
Citizen candidates failed: Do cribbers really want change?
The once-great city of Mumbai tends to be disaggregated into two halves every election time, between slum dwellers and non-slum dwellers, between voters who take bribes and those who do not. It is time to divide the city into two new categories: the voters and the idiots. The voters are those #BMC2012 #citizen candidates #ThatsJustWrong
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Sameer Kamat
Does your designation really matter?
If you work in a typical corporate setup, you can't escape the annual corporate sporting event that you will be dragged into – appraisals. Love it or hate it, participation is mandatory. Suddenly, for a few days, all camaraderie moves to the back burner. You find yourself competing with the #appraisals #corporate structure #designation #HowThisWorks
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Tom Alter
Why we can not accept ‘this’ Sachin
Heads – some younger, some wiser – have been advising Sachin to quit – at least at the One-Day level. I beg to differ – and not out of long-lasting love for Sachin, not for any nostalgic sentimentality. I understand what those heads are saying, understand the wisdom and the concern, #Australia #Cricket #NotJobsButPassion #Sachin Tendulkar #Sports #ToTheContrary
