Author: admin
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ROGERS NOT OUT
Long before the advent of SMS and abbreviations like asap, “Roger” was a word frequently used in signalling and communications; especially between pilots of war planes. Roger was an expression of agreement or acknowledgement of a message. To end the communication, a pilot would say “Roger and Out”. This November 2007, I am writing…
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HOW PROFITABLE IS PERSECUTION?
This is indeed a strange title. It is borrowed from the Vatican II document “The Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World”. Let me quote it. “The church admits that she greatly profited and still profits from the antagonism of those who oppose or persecute her” (GS 44). Perhaps “benefit” would have been…
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CRY MY BELOVED COUNTRY
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister Hon’ble Sir, For the last ten years we have been listening to your “Mann ki Baat” (A piece of your mind) on the radio. However, not once in all these years did you deem it appropriate to hold a Press Conference. Hence you could not hear the “Dil…
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