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In Remembrance of 26/11 and Thanksgiving to the Heroes

Warn­ing: A post with­out struc­ture, theme or com­po­si­tion. Sense­less unedited out­pour­ing. Read at your own risk.
Blood, bul­lets, and deaths. Bru­tal vio­lence. Screams. Help­less­ness. Despair. Pain. Courage.
A nation of a bil­lion aspir­ing to be on the UN Secu­rity Coun­cil brought to its knees by just ten armed ter­ror­ists.
Hun­dreds died. Thou­sands wept. Mil­lions pan­icked. A bil­lion were ter­ror­ized.
The …

November 26, 2009 – 11:15 AM | By Mahendra | Posted in India, politics, religion, society | Tagged , , , , | Comments (16)

Weekend Flea Market 5-Oct-07

An assort­ment of stuff I came across in cyber­space, offered sec­ond hand, for any­one who may be interested.

If you haven’t read it already, Thomas Friedman’s penul­ti­mate op-ed 9/11 Is Over, is a must-read.
China has now started block­ing all RSS feeds as well.
A woman has been sen­tenced to death by ston­ing in Iran for com­mit­ting adul­tery. Kaman­gir …

October 5, 2007 – 4:24 PM | By Mahendra | Posted in Eclectic, India, U.S., blogging, media, politics | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (10)

Runaway Train

Pro­logue
I decided to add this pro­logue after the first few com­ments to this post. This post uses an inci­dent in India, but is actu­ally uni­ver­sal in nature and focuses on the moral, philo­soph­i­cal, and eth­i­cal decision-making involved in an emer­gency.
Main Post
Imag­ine you’re trav­el­ing from Mum­bai to Pune by train, which is full to capac­ity, as …

September 28, 2007 – 3:04 PM | By Mahendra | Posted in India, Personal, Travel, philosophy, psychology, pune | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (19)