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Roller Coaster Ride at Cedar Point

A few weeks back, when I real­ized that the world’s largest automaker was head­ing towards bank­ruptcy, I did a nos­tal­gic photo-post of Gen­eral Motors World Head­quar­ters at the Renais­sance Cen­ter and Detroit. This week, Six Flags, one of the world’s largest amuse­ment park com­pany in the world announced that it is fil­ing for bank­ruptcy. It

Dark Ages at the Renaissance Center, Detroit

Yesterday’s news about GM cut­ting 21,000 more jobs and killing the Pon­tiac brand evoked nos­tal­gia and some mixed feel­ings. So this is a photo-sequel to my almost two year old post about life in Detroit.

 

For two years, I lived, worked, breathed, ate, and slept in the shadow of this land­mark. Gen­eral Motors World Head­quar­ters, the

Wordle US & Indian Constitution, Congress & CPI(M) Manifesto

Since it was intro­duced last year, Wor­dle has been very pop­u­lar with blog­gers and the gen­eral pub­lic. So I decided to join in the fun. Here are the US and Indian Con­sti­tu­tion wor­dle outputs:

Obser­va­tions? Noth­ing surprising here.

Putting aside Law, observe the empha­sis on Leg­is­la­ture, Leg­isla­tive, and Court in the Indian con­sti­tu­tion. Nei­ther of these are promi­nent

Dubai: World’s Trade Center?

These images tell a story.

The Twin Tow­ers, a sym­bol of US cap­i­tal­is­tic super­power, have col­lapsed. The US is busy fight­ing the war against ter­ror.
In the mean­while, Burj Dubai, the tallest free stand­ing struc­ture in the world, just reached a soar­ing 574.5m (1,885 ft) with 154 com­pleted sto­ries. It is pre­dicted to be the tallest