Category Archives: politics

Google Vs China — a symbolic move

By nistha | Published: March 23, 2010
I dis­cussed the story some­time back and while I did not think Google would actu­ally step out, it just did. It is not about busi­ness any­more, it is not about pol­i­tics any­more. I think Google took it to heart more than we actu­ally imag­ined and I like it. This story from Wash­ing­ton­Post cov­ers it nicely. Like [...]
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Cyber spying

By nistha | Published: January 20, 2010
If you picked a news­pa­per — oh I for­got they are obso­lete now!. I mean if you read news or blogs within last week, you would know about the bit­ter Google Vs China cyber­war. Google took a fancy stance (that of course only a com­pany with such huge stature can afford) by declar­ing that it [...]
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Ghalib’s heritage endangered

By nistha | Published: December 30, 2009
Unfor­tu­nate is the land that can’t uphold it’s own legacy. To have been blessed with the affec­tions of the peer­less Mirza Ghalib is suf­fi­cient alone to make Delhi spe­cial but Delhi has decided to hand the honor over to the obliv­ion. In recent news arti­cle from TOI, the Delhi govt. or the archae­o­log­i­cal depart­ment had [...]
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