Large rise in infant sofa deaths

Last updated on: January 18, 2006 at 5:05 pm By Desh Kapoor

This is an intriguing story on a strange phenomenon of babies dying while sleeping on sofas... with a parent! Sleeping with a baby can be dangerous Cases of babies dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) have fallen dramatically over 20 years but deaths while sleeping with a parent on a sofa have risen 400 percent, researchers said on Wednesday. The findings by doctors at the Royal Hospital for Children in Bristol, England show that campaigns to inform parents about SIDS, or cot deaths, have had an impact. Read more

Pakis worried of Sehwag's Batting: Cricket

Last updated on: January 18, 2006 at 3:13 pm By Desh Kapoor

The first India-Pak cricket test in Lahore's Gaddafi stadium was a run fest! The HIGHEST runs per wicket EVER IN HISTORY were scored! Here is a piece on how Virendra Sehwag - the Indian opener - worries the Pakis! Last year he scored the first triple century by an Indian and he has already started with a 250+ score in the opening game! So are the Pakis worried? HECK YES! Here is a story from rediff: Read more

Politics

Last updated on: January 18, 2006 at 2:46 pm By Desh Kapoor

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. Read more

Politics

Last updated on: January 18, 2006 at 2:45 pm By Desh Kapoor

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. Read more

French

Last updated on: January 18, 2006 at 2:44 pm By Desh Kapoor

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. Read more

Genius

Last updated on: January 18, 2006 at 2:42 pm By Desh Kapoor

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. Read more

Tokya Melt-down and Warren Buffett's activities

Last updated on: January 18, 2006 at 1:06 pm By Desh Kapoor

Tokyo Stock Exchange had a sort of "meltdown" yesterday.. due to a little known tech stock "Livedoor"! Here is the news: Japan's main stock market nose-dived for a second day Wednesday on growing investor jitters from "Livedoor shock," the widening criminal investigation at an Internet startup that has sparked a sell-off, especially in technology shares. The benchmark for the Tokyo Stock Exchange plunged 2.9 percent Wednesday in a session that had to be shortened by 20 minutes because of a surge in transactions. Read more

Gurinder Osan: Photographs with a Difference

Last updated on: January 18, 2006 at 12:32 pm By Desh Kapoor

I wanted to bring some pictures of my life long friend (yeah we started together in school when we were less than three years!) - Gurinder Osan. He is a photo editor at Associated Press and I think he is one heck of a photographer.His photograph of "A family in northern India took refuge in a tent after a powerful earthquake in October in Kashmir" has made to the Photographs of the Year at New York Times for 2005 in the World Category!! Read more

Influence of Body Types in Medicine

Last updated on: January 18, 2006 at 3:31 am By Desh Kapoor

Deepak Chopra speaks about the influence of the Body Type in medicine... Here is what he said: Despite the fact that many people had a typical lunch of sandwich, French fries, and coffee, the food is sitting heavily in some stomachs, tossing nervously in others, and passing unnoticed in most of the rest. In some bodies, hearts are beating faster because the sidewalk feels too crowded; others are pouring out excess gastric acid or experiencing a rise in blood pressure. It takes all types to make a world but has medicine really noticed what types there are?In conventional medicine we pay much more attention to differences among diseases than among people. Read more

Tying the Knot in Rajasthan

Last updated on: January 18, 2006 at 3:20 am By Desh Kapoor

Here is an interesting story on how some tourists from the West are finding "Experiences" in India that enrich them in their lives... and not just visiting the country! It is just not other place for foreign tourists to have fun and pay for it. It is an experience, which remains with them throughout their lifetime. With the day full of fun and frolic the night seems to be even more eager to embrace the foreign guests and embrace them in its twirls of darkness with a big bonfire with a story of its own. Read more