Today India set a new record in history by putting 10 satellites into orbit in one launch. The PSLV-C9 carried two Indian satellites and eight nano-satellites (developed by university students in Canada, Germany, Japan, Denmark, and Netherlands). It’s also become a booming business as well.
This received exciting coverage on just about every channel, and received [...]
Looks like even Indian news channels are also going into cheap tabloid type of news coverage. More than the recent Gurgaon school shootings (a first in India), I was appalled by the way NDTV covered it: the sensationalism, 24×7 hyper coverage, the “story-as-it-unfolds”. Talk about the innocence of a million kids being spoiled (who probably [...]
As I was returning from a rural temple, I found these chicken impaled alive and just left there slowly bleeding to death. There are still parts of the globe that have these sort of rituals with the belief that it will appease or ward of evil spirits or something.
But how much more cruel is it [...]