I haven’t seen Charlie Chaplin’s film “ The Great Dictator” and I was curious when afl (http://floatingleaf.rediffiland.com) gave a link to his speech in the film , in the comments’ section of Jolly’s post on war(http://blackswan.rediffiland.com) which the comment said, would explain the whole thing. It’s quite a beautiful exhortation towards a better world. [...]
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I have just finished reading an old post of 27th January, 2007 of my friend Dilip Krishnan (http://myownboswell.rediffiland.com) . It is titled, “The paradox that is India” and you can find it under the category “Issues of the times”. While Dilip pondered over this paradox, in the course of a metro ride from the [...] “ Olive Riley, described as the world’s oldest Internet blogger has died at age 108, after posting a final message about singing a “happy song” in her nursing home”, says a report in today’s edition of “The Hindu”. “ She was born in the Outback town of Broken Hill on 20th October 1899, she [...] Responding to the post by Jolly Jacob (www.blackswan.rediffiland.com), Gman (www.mussings.rediffiland.com) had pointed out that “ a very uncomfortable but hard fact of war is that, through the ages and time, it is women and children who have actually suffered the effects of war. The men have fought and gone, the women have had to [...] Dear friends, Sharing with you a few photographs taken during my recent visit to Kerala. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nadirafromkannur/ The beach in the pictures, is about twenty minutes drive from my home. When the sky is clear of monsoon clouds, the sunset is a beautiful sight. Not lucky this time though . We also have an [...] One of the books that I had long wanted to read was “The one straw Revolution” by Masanobu Fukuoka and I did that recently while travelling back by train from my hometown Kannur to Delhi. Fukuoka, who had been trained as an agricultural scientist, left his job to take up traditional farming in his [...] |
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