Monthly Archive: February 2009

Quick notes from India visit

Just back from a hectic and intense 10-day visit to India. I did four cities on this visit…and on an average, slept about 5 hours each day…by 7pm on most days, my throat would...

Bacteria that “eat” carbon dioxide

From a recent article in VC Circle: Global warming, air pollution and other problems related to the emission of Co2 (carbon dioxide) may partially get solved as a group of five scientists from four...

What did we have before Tea and Coffee?

Many of you must have wondered about this…I did too. Then late last year, I came across this fascinating Yahoo! groups discussion on the subject…Some excerpts below *** What did we have before Tea or...

“The assembly line of international terrorism” – Extracts

Below are extracts from an article by Wilson John published in the latest issue of Pragati on “why the threat from Jamaat-ud-Dawa is set to rise“. It makes for some thought-provoking and disturbing reading. *** Excerpts...