March 15, 2014
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Science
“there is a chance my parents are still alive”
A note on the widening search for MH370 and suspicion of the pilots after Malaysia’s prime minister said communications were deliberately disabled, quoting a report on police searching the captain’s…
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Betrayal in Telangana
A comment on the Telangana Rashtra Samiti rejecting an alliance with Congress, which the poster says costs the party its southern hope and long-term base.
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Politics
An advocate for “radical social transformation”
The poster responds to Saroj Giri’s call for radical social transformation against communalism, arguing the Indian left offers no way to win the masses back and has long been led…
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Politics
(un)fair weather friends
A comment on Congress’s weak position and the Samajwadi Party’s failure under Akhilesh Yadav to deliver good governance, with Muslim voters disillusioned by riots; opens with a Sanskrit verse on…
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Politics
Mr AK-272 takes aim at media
A comment criticising Arvind Kejriwal’s threat to jail media persons said to promote Narendra Modi for money, comparing it to Nehru’s talk of hanging businessmen and calling it a bad…
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Economy
2035
A note on Bill Gates’s prediction that few poor nations will remain by 2035, with the poster stressing his warning that falling labour demand for many skills is not widely…