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Obituary Fail!
Gary Coleman, passed away yesterday!
On the right is a screen capture from the Himalayan times epaper edition mentioning the star’s passing away. (I saw it yesterday in print). (more…)
rants
Himalaya Gate: the Himalayan glacier melt fiasco!
Its been a while since the shit hit the fan. I found this post in my archives; never did go about publishing it.
There was the CRU-Gate also known as Climate Gate where emails of the scientists within the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) got hacked and was made publicly available.
Himalaya Gate and a whole lot of other Gates (Amazon GATE) cropped up just around the Copenhagen meet. (more…)
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Recollections of the peace rally in Kathmandu, 7 May 2010
I received a text from a dear friend, a day in advance of the scheduled Peace rally. Like the SMS asked me to, I dutifully forwarded it to two like-minded people; I never was going to show up though!
Turns out I did go rallying, tagging along with me a few other like-minded friends. The influx of people on the road, donning whites and carrying the Nepalese flag, was incentive enough to join. A short discussion with fellow compadres, and I found myself matching steps with other peace rallyists, on my way to Basantapur. And thus I rallied for peace; which incidentally was/is a very first for me. (more…)