Letters from Edinburgh: 3

 Posted on September 20, 2011  |  2 minutes  |  325 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

**19/09/2009 THE BEGINNING: PART 3** Hello all! It has been nearly 10 days since I got here. Freshers’ week was very fun! I went for lots of cool events where we got to meet people from all sorts of fields from genomics to international politics and everything in between! [Read More]
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Letters from Edinburgh: 2

 Posted on September 18, 2011  |  3 minutes  |  588 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

**13/09/2009 THE BEGINNING: PART 2** Hello! I just got back from a great time at three events. I climbed Arthur’s Seat and made a friend (Greek) who’s about to start studying Bachelors of Computer science and met a Londoner who studies Geology. [Read More]
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The First and Last Freedom: Thoughts during Chapter 1

 Posted on September 18, 2011  |  4 minutes  |  784 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Different approaches are necessary for different types of books; Novels and most popular science books are meant to be read cover to cover. Dictionaries, encyclopedias and other factual texts are meant to be looked up for specific information. [Read More]
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Understanding India using Europe

 Posted on August 7, 2011  |  4 minutes  |  703 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

It is too difficult for a European to see India as one country when they understand it’s diversity is more at the scale of a continent – their continent. [Read More]
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Android body vs Human body

 Posted on August 6, 2011  |  4 minutes  |  678 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

A lot of futuristic science fiction puts forward several ideas of what an android would be like. Data from Star Trek (TNG) is an intriguing character who tries very hard to understand what it is to be human. [Read More]
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Arranged Marriage

 Posted on August 5, 2011  |  6 minutes  |  1161 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Arranged marriage is an old concept. It existed long before people accepted love (that occurred before marriage) as a valid reason to marry. The process through which this changed is reflected very well in the movie ‘Fiddler on the Roof’. [Read More]
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Balailakka Balailakka – Lyrics and Translation (with end notes)

 Posted on July 29, 2011  |  5 minutes  |  1016 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

A.R. Rahman had another party with this movie. He has explored several new styles including hip pop in the movie Shivaji – The Boss. Although it has some lines just for the sake of rhyming lyrics(I will mark these with a ‘*’), this song makes me long for home. [Read More]
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Types of Love: An Analysis.

 Posted on July 23, 2011  |  8 minutes  |  1516 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

It is perhaps important to differentiate the various meaning that we refer to when we say the word love. Often ‘love’ is used in the place of a more suitable word. [Read More]
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