My Life in Kashmir II

Jammu Tawi was a beautiful and clean town on slant of mountain. Rains were usual and after rain roads and streets used to glitter. Town of Jammu had a specialty. It had flowing waters on its three and a half sides…

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Browsing List

You might or might not have noticed my browsing list on the sidebar. It is just below the list of books on the right. This “browsing list” will comprise of any interesting stuff I find net-surfing. Putting a URL on that list does not mean that I agree or endorse the contents of that webpage;… Continue reading Browsing List

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My Life in Kashmir I

My great-grandfather, after getting fed up with high handedness of the British rulers of India, took refuge in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (here-after called state) from Qila Sobha Singh, District Sialkot [in the Punjab province of Pakistan and very close to Jammu …

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My Dad in Jammu and Kashmir

So the long promised series is here. My Dad sent me his writeup about a month ago. But I have been too lazy and too busy to do much with it. He wrote it in Microsoft Word. I am going to break it up into reasonable sized chunks and post them over the next few… Continue reading My Dad in Jammu and Kashmir

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Book Review: Paris 1919

In the foreword to Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan, Richard Holbrooke argues: In the headline version of history, the road from the Hall of Mirrors [where Versailles treaty was signed] to the German invasion of Poland only twenty years later is usually presented as a straight line. But as… Continue reading Book Review: Paris 1919

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MT-Blacklist

Jay Allen has come up with version 1.5 of MT-Blacklist to combat spam in comments and trackback. I have installed the new version and it works great. No more errors that I got with version 1.0beta and no slowing down of the rebuild process. I haven’t been getting too much spam in my comments, but… Continue reading MT-Blacklist

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Imitation Fitness Blog II

Unqualified Offerings was wondering whether I would be posting regular fitness updates. He gets half his wish: I’ll post updates, but irregularly. As I posted in my first fitness post, I am trying to increase endurance and muscle strength but I am not overweight. I had orginally settled on three different exercises: Running/walking on a… Continue reading Imitation Fitness Blog II

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Happy Birthday

To Amber, my lovely wife. Many Happy Returns of the day. And don’t worry that you are old. Thirty is just the start of life. Obviously, there won’t be any blogging today as I bake a carrot cake for her and then we go out to dinner. PS. In case you were wondering where I… Continue reading Happy Birthday

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Blogosphere Ecosystem

Looking at the TTLB Blogoshpere Ecosystem, I have been a slithering reptile for quite some time. This designation is based on the number of incoming links to my blog. I am currently ranked #1226 with 29 incoming links. What is interesting is that my traffic has been increasing steadily but my ecosystem rank is stagnant.… Continue reading Blogosphere Ecosystem

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League of Nations and Racial Equality

An interesting chapter in the book “Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World” is related to Japan. Japan was on the Allied side in World War I, though it hadn’t done much fighting. The Japanese had three goals for the Paris Peace Conference after the war: to get a clause on racial equality written… Continue reading League of Nations and Racial Equality