Jiah Khan’s suicide: Cocooned, Sanitized lives which fret mental blues are a curse

June 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Khan at Nokia Lumia 920 launch party (courtesy Wikimedia)

Jiah Khan, a buddying actress in Bollywood, was recently found dead in her apartment in Bollywood.  The 25-year old's body was found hanging in the apartment by her mother.  She had started her career in a very talked about movie, Nishabd, opposite Amitabh Bachchan. From such a heady start to a lady in personal ruin, would have been a very tough and terrible journey.  In the aftermath of her death, many details are coming out, which suggest that her main issue in life was love life and … [Read more...]

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The month that was, while Drishtikone was in Transition

June 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

We have been off air on Drishtikone for the new transition to complete. In this time, a lot has happened - in India and the world. India: IPL Betting controversy:  Led by the Indian Pacer Sreesanth, players and bookies have been caught cheating on teams and throwing matches to get pay offs from betting in the IPL games.  Not just the players and outsiders like Vindu Dara Singh, who was connecting many dots, but even the owner of a team - Raj Kundra of Rajasthan Royals has admitted to … [Read more...]

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Drishtikone moves to Patheos Platform

June 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Welcome to Drishtikone.com's new home! It has been sometime since I posted my last blog post on Drishtikone.  After 7 and some years of blogging on independent platform here at Drishtikone, we have now moved the blog to Patheos.com - the largest Religious and Politics blog portal. This move is significant because of the following things: Drishtikone will find a new set of audiences being on Patheos.com Patheos doesn't have many Indians and Hindus blogging on issues relevant and … [Read more...]

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Pakistan Govt paid $1.8 mn to journalists from Secret Government Fund

April 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment

As much as the Pakistani journalists keep asserting their freedom, and keep accusing Indian Journalists of toeing the Indian Government line, the truth was that Pakistan media people would stand right alongside whatever lie or latest "controversy theory" that the Government would dish out.  So there was always a sneaking suspicion that there was a collusion between the Government and Journalists.  Now, due to a case in the Supreme Court by two journalists, Government has had to lay bare the … [Read more...]

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What is Yoga? (Sadhguru)

April 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment

The word yoga means literally means "union" or "to merge". More than a set of physical postures or exercises, Sadhguru defines yoga as a science to determine the nature of who you are and what you want to be.  Sadhguru explains that yoga means to liberate yourself from that information which determines who you are right now. If you can distance yourself from this information, then you're moving into yoga. A great series on Yoga.  To learn more about Sadhguru and Isha Foundation, please go to … [Read more...]

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Keanu Reeves in New York subway: Some stars are simple

April 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment

This guy reading the newspaper on the subway is Keanu Reeves.  And he is travelling in the New York subway just like other millions of commuters.  It seems that the New Yorkers either don't care or are just acting cool.  However, he not just travels in public transport but is actually quite a gentleman. The Matrix star has had a tough life: His father was arrested when he was 12 for drug dealing and his mother was a stripper. His family moved to Canada and there he had several step … [Read more...]

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How did Boston Bombers get so heavily armed without background checks??

April 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Two interesting pieces of information on the Boston Bombers have emerged. First is that none of the Bombers (younger was less than 21 years old anyway) had licenses to buy firearms.  Yet they had a large cache of arms to carry out many attacks!  And this comes right after the Senate has voted against improving the background checks. The Boston bombing suspects engaged in a deadly firefight with police last week, possessing six bombs, handguns, a rifle and more than 250 rounds of ammunition. … [Read more...]

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IIM-A Incubated company creates World’s first smartphone for the blind

April 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Sumit Dagar, a postgraduate degree from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, is collaborating with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi to come out with a unique device. Now, soon blind people can read SMS and emails on their smartphones.  No matter what language you send the email or SMS to the person, the message will be converted into blind-friendly braille.  Sumit's company is being incubated at the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) … [Read more...]

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Is the concern over US Debt paranoia and are we creating permanent unemployment?

April 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment

To place a lot of importance to the debt that the US has accumulated is to ignore the other strengths from which the US comes to table with.  The impact of debt in case of US specifically is the sum total of its economic, military and political clout.  Fortunately for the US, and unfortunately for the world, debt is not the only thing that plays a role in the debt-dynamics between US and the world.  We saw that in the 1980s as well, when Dollar was the currency for Oil Trade despite an … [Read more...]

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The Jehad over “Jehad”: CAIRs “My Jehad” campaign and its counter by Pam Geller

April 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

A few months back, Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) started a "My Jihad" campaign that aimed to "legitimize" the word Jihad and also somehow take away the "stigma" from what is happening in the Islamic world.  The idea is to deceive the Americans as opposed to establishing their version of Jehad in the Islamic minds. The ads took ordinary life situations - that in the first place DO NOT require any deep introspection - for example, "befriending non-Muslims", doing exercise, doing … [Read more...]

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