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Oil is the lifeline of any modern society. For years we have built our society on the false notion that Petroleum is an infinitely abundant resource. Some might argue that our dependence on oil has had a detrimental effect on everything from our foreign policy to the environment. Having said that I came across an [...]

America has seen spectacular growth in the last 100 years due to its ingenuity and the entrepreneur spirit. This phenomenal grown has largely been fuelled by an influx of much needed immigrant population at various points in time. From the tired and prosecuted to the hungry and penniless of the world – America has been [...]

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This Thursday morning, I came across a commotion outside the Bill Graham auditorium in San Francisco across from the San Francisco City Hall. This auditorium is usually reserved for fashionable corporate parties and concerts, but on this windy April morning it was home to Project Homeless Connect. Gavin Newsom, the city’s energetic mayor initiated this [...]

A Scene from Raja Harishchandra, by DadaSaheb Palkhe India’s romance with the silver screen began on May 3, 1913 at Bombay’s Coronation Cinema. Raja Harishchandra, India’s first full-length feature film was released to the public by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke fondly known as Dadasaheb Palkhe (April 30, 1870 – February 16, 1944. Dadasaheb’s work was greatly [...]

Screaming fans; heavily coreographed Bollywood dance numbers; gaudy costumes; and the usual clichéd introductions – it was all on show this Saturday Night at the Oakland Arena, and the fans loved it … Sushmita Sen, Saif Ali Khan, Akshay Kumar, Preity Zinta and Celina Jaitley, HEAT LIVE On Saturday 8th April, 2006 at The Oakland [...]

“Tamso Ma Jyotirgamaya”It is better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness What does it take to capture the imagination of a child; nurture a child’s physical and mental being? Perhaps we tend to be oblivious to the solution due to its inherent simplicity. In 1943, Shree Indubhai Dave, a high school teacher [...]

“Tamso Ma Jyotirgamaya” It is better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness What does it take to capture the imagination of a child; nurture a child’s physical and mental being? Perhaps we tend to be oblivious to the solution due to its inherent simplicity. In 1943, Shree Indubhai Dave, a high school [...]

Mathematics can be a strange and wonderful phenomenon. The Buddhabrot is a special fractal rendering of the Mandelbrot set, which, when “traditionally” oriented, resembles to some extent certain depictions of the Buddha. Find out more on wikipedia …