I have been following this Nuclear deal ever since it was first announced by President Mr.Bush and PM Dr.Manmohan Singh. As an ordinary citizen who has no agenda other than the best interest of the country in mind, I was very happy when I first heard/read about it. I though that the nuclear deal would be welcomed by every political party of our great nation because it is in the best interests of our country.  I thought for once - just for once, our political parties would put aside their self serving agendas and all consuming pursuit of power/money, to support the deal in the interest of our country.

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Terror un-Islamic

Muslim scholars at a meeting held at the Darul-Uloom Deoband in India said “Terror un-Islamic”. You can read more here. I wish they had done this 10 years back but hey, better late than never. This surely is a good sign.

Continue reading Week In Review (week ending March 01, 2008) »

Yet another nation is born in Europe

Kosovo declares independence from Serbia. Politicians are just the same everywhere in the world. They are the scumbags that divide people along ethnic , religious , language, color or creed so that they can attain or stay in power. In this instance they separated a region called Kosovo on the basis of religion.

Continue reading Week In Review (week ending February 23, 2008) »

I am sure all of you have read all the main headlines, so here is your quota of less prominent headlines that appeared in various news sources.

Indian languishing in Pak jail for 35 years to be freed

An Indian on death row for spying who has turned into a mental wreck after languishing in a Lahore prison for 35 years will be soon released by Pakistan, a minister said here on Monday. Kashmir Singh, son of Sansar Singh from Punjab, sentenced to death under the Official Secret Act 1923 by the court of Field General Court Martial in Lahore 35 years ago. He was discovered by Federal Minister for Human Rights Ansar Burney at Central Jail, Lahore after a nationwide search.

Continue reading Week In Review (week ending February 16, 2008) »

Whenever I read that a kid killed his/her parents, it really disturbs me. I can not understand what causes a kid to get upset so badly as to kill his/her parents. 

A 15 year old boy called Nicholas Browning from Cockeysville, Md is charged with killing his parents and two younger brothers. He apparently shot them as they slept, then returned a day later after spending time with friends to stage the discovery of their deaths.  I can not imagine any reason big enough to cause anyone to kill his/her parents and siblings. It is totally devastating.

Continue reading Week In Review (week ending February 9, 2008) »

Barbarians strike again

In another display of utter barbarianism, the islamic terrorists  in Iraq strapped bombs to two  mentally ill women and sent them to two crowded markets. Then they detonated those two women using cell phone activated remote controls.  More than 68 people got killed and many more got injured in these two incidents.

Continue reading Week In Review (week ending February 2, 2008) »

In addition to becoming world’s manufacturing hub, it looks like China is trying to become a hub for education as well. It seems China is attracting more and more Indian students every year. Read about at it here.  Really interesting!!!.

Here is yet another example of Islamic clerics trying to stifle the freedom of expression which is a God given right to every human being. An Afghan court in northern Afghanistan sentenced  Sayed Parwiz Kambakhsh, 23 who is a journalism student to death for blasphemy for distributing an article from the Internet that was considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad. Read about it here and here. It is just so outrageous!!!

Continue reading Week in Review (week ending January 26th 2008) »

Continue reading Telugu Webzines »

Here is a list of telugu blogs (in no specific order). I will keep adding more blogs to this list as I find them. So keep checking back. If you do not find your telugu blog in this list then please email me at sundries@somberi.com

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A group of my friends and me were having a discussion about Municipal Corporations in India. We all agreed that the following  rule defines any Municipal body in India.

Continue reading Ajai Shankar Pandey - Municipal Commissioner of a different kind »

We all know that Income Tax department in India  exists for the main purpose of enriching the income tax dept employees. It is incidental that  Income Tax also gets collected  not because of these employees but despite them.

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“It has been two weeks since I had quit my  job”  said Sudhir.

He is my childhood friend and he had a very high paying and much envied job in the ‘New products’ division in the Indian office of a Fortune 500 software company.  I am meeting Sudhir after a gap of more than five years. We are sitting at a restaurant. There are not too many customers in the  restaurant as it is late morning  and too early for lunch for most people.

The company that Sudhir worked for is a highly admired software firm and people treasure the opportunity to work there and once people get in there, they only leave the company when they retire. Here I am using the term people loosely  -  when I said people I actually meant ‘techies’ in the software field.  Anyway my friend Sudhir had joined that company when they recruited him in a campus interview about 15 years ago. He used to tell me that he was a very well respected employee and had the designation of ‘Principal Software Architect’ which is a highly coveted position within his company. He did not tell me that he quit his job when we spoke on the phone the previous day.

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Over the last few months I have been reading in the Indian news papers about how the communists want to pull the plug on the UPA governament because Dr. Manmohan Sing has signed the nuke deal with the USA.

Continue reading The Communist Traitors of India »

I have a compiled a list of songs that I liked over the years. Videos for most of these songs have been uploaded to youtube by different folks. Some of these are original, some are not. I am sure you will find some of your favorites among them. This list is not in any specific order.

Continue reading Great Songs »