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Abdel-Karim Nabil Suleiman, the Egyptian blogger from Alexandria was this week, sentenced to four years in prison for what he wrote in his blog. He was first arrested in 2005. A blogger and a law student in Al Azhar (world’s second oldest operating University), Karim’s blog was critical of the University which he termed […]

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There was a time when life used to be simple. There were these lists; friends, friend, best friend, friend’s friend, second best friend, enemy, enemy’s best friend, my friend who talks to the enemy; happy lists that kept changing, point being good or bad, you had real people. You slept daily and eleven thirty was […]

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Academy can be funny at times and predicting the awards is a waste of human resources. Last year I’d seen all the major contenders and was quite sure about the winner - till Jack Nicholson pissed off us all. This time around I haven’t seen many of these movies *then the Academy people also don’t […]

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Days after the May4th Ohio college shooting, massive protests broke out across the country’s colleges. One hundred thousand students marched on Washington and laid seige to the capital, four hundred and fifty colleges shutdown across the nation. Nixon was moved to Camp David for his own safety. The president spend two sleepless nights there at […]

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“Look at that colour man !”
“hmm….faded brinjal”
“What ?”
“faded brinjal colour”
“thats lavender man”
“c’mon ! only girls remember these colour-words”
“aha….so whats this colour?”
“hmm…jeans washed thousand times colour”
“this is crazy man…so what are your other colours…decayed rat and dried shit colour huh”
“fuck you”
“mind your language…’wise I’ll do homosex with you”
“there is no word called homosex”
“Its there”
“Its not there”
“Fuck […]

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