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Sun 22 Mar 2015

Protect Your Privacy

“If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to fear”. This is the most common retort used by governments to espouse Mass surveillance. They do it in the pretext of security. But even if you’re not a fugitive, you have the right to protect your privacy...

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Sun 08 Mar 2015

Shooting the Messenger

“India’s Daughter”, a documentary on Gang rape of 2012 has been officially banned. The Indian government went all gun to arrest the release of the documentary in India & abroad. BBC, Google, Youtube have all been sent legal notices to comply with the government’s diktat. Congratulations! We have shown the world that we will silence anything that will make us uncomfortable...

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Sun 04 May 2014

Digging on the codes of the Past

Different religion tells us about plethora of beautiful tales about the genesis of humans. We humans, like any other trivial species, descended not from heaven (sigh!) but due to mitosis in single cell organisms...

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