Archive > December 2005

Have you ever thought about this?

Even though India’s children account for more than one-third of its population, their interests have never been given priority. And their rights have been violated every single day. CRY has compiled some statistics on the situation of children in India. This is based on its experience of working on a range of children’s issues across [...]

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Stop the World a Second

GET ready for a minute with 61 seconds. Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first “leap second” — a timing tweak to make up for changes in the Earth’s rotation — in seven years. At midnight Co-ordinated Universal Time (11am Melbourne time), atomic clocks worldwide will read 23:59:60 before hitting 00:00:00. A [...]

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Reminiscence of Tsunami – December 26, ’05

(Move the mouse pointer over the pics to know more about them)

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Kiran More… Indian Cricket Selection Committee Chairman

Okay, things have been pretty bad with Sourav Ganguly for the past few months, right since a Mr Greg Chappell had been introduced to the team. Okay, I haven’t got anything against the Aussie. But is it utter coincidence that the moment he’s here, our captain gets replaced, Ganguly gets axed and Yuvraj is referred [...]

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An Arbitrary Road Sign

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Christmas Carol

Well, while talking of Christmas, suddenly remembered the times when we were li’l kids and used to sing carols on the Christmas Eve in our school. It was really sweet. Although the lyrics were completely by-heart in those times, they’ve gotten pretty rusty now. So, had to make a li’l use of Google to get [...]

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Jingles all the way…

Hmm…it’s certainly been over a month now since I’ve last posted something out here. Well, it’s true that I’ve been a very regular blogger. But, I don’t know why, these days I just don’t find the zeal to write anything out here. Okay, this’s festive time, the Christmas Eve…and I really don’t have any right [...]

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