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COMBAT PLANES-MY FAVORITE ONES (Part-1)

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As many may not be aware, one of my interests is strategic and defense affairs. I am specially interested in combat planes. My interests were kindled at an early age when my father first bought for me The Encyclopedia of Combat Planes from one of his tours. My interests were further enhanced by the Wings program which had complete history shown on Discovery channel. Here i am trying to make a list of my most favorite aircrafts. When one talks about combat planes, one can never ignore the contributions made by the Americans and the Russians. They are the world leaders in Aeronautics. While the Americans concentrated more on the aesthetic aspect of the plane, it was all about getting the job done for the Russians. The Russian planes were rugged and tough. The Americans concentrated more on making high end and high tech planes. I have curtailed my countdown to planes that entered services after the 1950's. It is done to limit the planes that I can deal. In the first ...
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RAPE IN DELHI,WHAT IS HAPPENING TO INDIA?????

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Yet another blog for me. But it has special significance as I am again forced to write about the increasing violence against our mothers and sisters in India. A few months ago, I had written a blog about the infamous rape and murder of Sowmya by a hooligan. I always prayed that I should again be forced to deal with the subject. Yet again another rape has taken place, this time in our national capital region. What has hurt me the most is the sheer brutality with which the girl was raped and treated later including insertion of rods?I keep wondering what type of animals can do such a thing to a young girl?An animal  who does not have any remorse or humane feelings? What is happening to our country where lawlessness are growing day in and day out. Corruption, violence has become part of our lives. Criminals has a field day and the law increasingly seems to be helpless and ineffective in doing anything to stop such atrocities.  As a lawyer, I see hundreds of criminal cas...
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HARTAL, BANDH- WHO IS THE LOSER AND WHO GAINS?

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                                   ( A view of deserted Court Road, Palakkad during a hartal day) I am re posting an extract from my earlier blog concerning Hartals that I posted in 2010 . Shocking to say nothing much has changed in the last 2 years. HARTAL (REFER WIKIPEDIA) Hartal is a form of civil disobedience movement. The word has it's origin in Gujarathi which was imbibed by the great Mahatma as an effective tool of civil and mass disobedience movement and an effective protest. BANDHS (REFER WIKIPEDIA) Bandhs in hindi means closed. It is perhaps the most feared form of protest where in a political party call for protest and it is expected that the public will comply, in most cases forcibly complied.  The most affected are the states of West Bengal and Kerala which is ruled by the left parties which has seen the maximum number of hartals and bandhs. In Kerala, the Honorable Hig...
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FUEL PRICES THAT BURN OUR POCKET

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                                                                                                                           I had  been out of blogging for the past one month. In this time many things had been going on including coalgate (not to be confused with the toothpaste). Yet again I am not going to write another blog lamenting about the corruption in India. I am a great believer in time and a time will come when there will be a change in the system and all the evils will disappear. So I have decided to concentrate on the impending fuel price hike in India. In the last two years, the prices of fuel have sky rocketed in India with Petrol currently bein...
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