Category: English
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Gmail Out of Beta But Issues Persist
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Farah Pandith, the Kashmir Connection
News! Now US State Department has an office of Special Representative to Muslim Communities (SRMC), and Hillary Clinton has appointed Farah Pandith as its head. So, who is Farah Pandith? According to the State Department press release, Pandith, a Muslim, immigrated to the United States with her parents from Srinagar, India. She has said that…
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Kavya Shivashankar beats Jimmy Kimmel too
Jimmy Kimmel, the late night comedian, apparently has this annual routine where he invites the year’s spelling bee winner to his show and goes head to head with them in a weird spelling test. Although he has been apparently winning for last few years, this year Kavya Shivashankar beat him hands down. Watch this video.…
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Kavya Shivashankar Becomes Spelling Champ
A bunch of thirteen year old kids of Indian origin ruled the roost at the Scripps National Spelling Bee tonight. Out of 11 finalists, more than half (Ramya Auroprem, Aishwarya Pastapur, Sidharth Chand, Neetu Chandak, Anamika Veeramani, Tussah Heera, and Kavya Shivashankar) had Indian names. That is an astounding 7 out of 11. In each…
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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on Taliban
Just watched the PBS documentary “Pakistan: Children of the Taliban“. The situation in the region is really really scary. While I follow a lot of the news from the region these days, this perspective from Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy was somewhat of an eye-opener. While the players were no less important, the star of the show was…
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Gmail Search has Auto-Complete
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My Twitter Wish List
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Gmail – Wait Wait Don't Send It Yet
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T.V. Raman – an eye opening personality
Google’s TV Raman is one eye-opener of a personality. Dr. Raman cannot see, and his occasional blog posts about features of web accessibility for the visually impaired are really useful and interesting, also for the rest of us. In his latest post on the offical Google blog, Dr. Raman tells us about how his OCRopus…