Posted in Humour, Miscellaneous at 12:55 pm by PuneTalks
I was shocked to learn that colas contain pesticides. I was under the impression that they contained rat poison, Baygon spray, and lead from batteries. But my alcoholic father, on his death bed, convinced me that these were the main ingredients in the arrack he drank. So the colas looked a lot milder. Just pesticides huhn?
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Posted in Current Affairs, Inspiration at 7:12 am by PuneTalks
“If you are to suffer, you should suffer in the interest of the country.” - Jawaharlal Nehru, speaking to villagers who were to be displaced by the Hirakud Dam, 1948. Read more »
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Posted in Humour at 12:22 pm by PuneTalks
Thanks to Debu for the contribution :).
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Posted in Current Affairs at 9:32 am by PuneTalks
Arundhati Roy, Guardian - Saturday September 29, 2001
In the aftermath of the unconscionable September 11 suicide attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre, an American newscaster said: “Good and evil rarely manifest themselves as clearly as they did last Tuesday. People who we don’t know massacred people who we do. And they did so with contemptuous glee.” Then he broke down and wept. Read more »
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Posted in Current Affairs at 9:28 am by PuneTalks
How many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilisation
Arundhati Roy, Wednesday April 2, 2003 The Guardian Read more »
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