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19 Mar 2010 08:44

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World: Skeptic calls guru’s “I’ll kill you on live TV” bluff, walks away alive

  • The immediate goal I have is to stop these fraudulent babas and gurus. I want people to make their own decisions. They should not be guided by ignorance, but by knowledge.
  • Indian Rationalists’ Association skeptic-in-chief Sanal Edamaruku • Regarding the attempt by Pandit Surender Sharma, a well-known tantric guru, to kill him on an Indian TV show. Clearly, since he’s talking about the experience, he survived, and he’s ready to gloat: “He was over, finished, completely destroyed!” Edamaruku, whose goal is to push Indian mysticism out of society, has built up the Indian Rationalists’ Association to 100,000 members over the last 25 years. He’s not a playa, he just crushes a lot. source
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19 Mar 2010 08:17

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Offbeat: Rich Indians in helicopters: A bizarre New York Times trend story

Step one: Take newly rich Indian farmers. Step two: Give them helicopters. Rinse and repeat. Let’s see Danny Boyle try to romanticize this. source
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13 Feb 2010 13:58

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World: Restaurant attack in India the deadliest since the Mumbai attacks

Eight died after a bomb ripped apart this restaurant in Pune today. 33 more were injured. source
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08 Feb 2010 09:44

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U.S.: India’s snow problems deadlier, scarier than D.C.’s are

  • 17+ soldiers dead in an avalanche at a training camp source
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05 Feb 2010 11:24

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World: Literally dead language: Last speaker of ancient Bo language dies

  • 70,000 the age of the language, spoken in India’s Andaman Islands and thought to have originated from Africa
  • 85 the age of Boa Sr (a woman, BTW), who was the last speaker of the language for 30 to 40 years source
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10 Dec 2009 20:54

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World: Hungry for attention: Meet the cleverest bastard in India’s history

K. Chandrasekhar Rao starved himself for nearly two weeks in an attempt to get his region, Telangana, recognized as a separate Indian state. It worked. source
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08 Dec 2009 09:40

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U.S., World: An American reportedly planned the Mumbai attacks

  • You might as well be telling me my nephew is being charged with 9/11. That’s like pouring cold water inside me. He’s been in trouble before, but we thought something like this was beyond his character.
  • William Headley • Describing his reaction to the allegations that his son, David Headley of Chicago, was involved in plotting the attacks in Mumbai last year. The attack killed 163, left the Indian capital in a sea of fear for days, and damaged relations between India and Pakistan. Headley was arrested in October for a plot to bomb a Danish newspaper that printed a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad – an incident you might remember angered many in the Muslim world. source
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17 Oct 2009 10:26

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World: Mother Teresa: It seems like everyone wants a piece of her

  • She missed them very much all her life. My request is a very human one.
  • Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha • Describing his country’s desire to bring Mother Teresa back to her homeland from India, where she died. Berisha hopes to open up a museum in her honor. India wants to keep her, though, and Macedonia also holds a claim to her, because she was born there. Why the push to get her? Well, she’s well on the path to sainthood. That might have something to do with it. • source
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05 Oct 2009 09:39

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World: Torrential rains in India lead to huge amounts of flooding

  • 270+ have died in the massive Indian floods source
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09 Sep 2009 10:14

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World: India has a lot of tigers, and they kill a lot of cows

  • 1,300 or half the world’s wild tigers, live in India source
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