SILENCE OF A NATION
Author
: Srikanth
Blog
: Rock On
Date
: 1/6/2013 6:28:00 PM
';;;; This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 35; the thirty-fifth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton. The theme for the month is "...and the world was silent again" May 15, 2012: A. Raja, the last major accused in the 2G scam was granted bail and subsequently released from the prison.Although the CBI started the investigation into 2G spectrum(...)'
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THAT OLD MAN
Author
: Srikanth
Blog
: Rock On
Date
: 8/5/2012 4:19:00 PM
'This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 30; the thirtieth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.It was a busy day at the office and as most of the software engineers, I went home tired and frustrated. Bharat, my four year old son welcomed me at the door with a broad smile. "Papa, did you get it?" he asked curiously. I then remembered that I forgot to ge(...)'
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That Last Night
Author
: Srikanth
Blog
: Rock On
Date
: 3/31/2012 10:44:00 PM
'This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 26; the 26th Edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton. The topic for this month is 'That Last Night'.That Last Night, Anand was about to get into his car and drive home when he realized he left his car keys on his office desk. Anand ran to the elevator and pressed the button to go up. While Anand was pressing the e(...)'
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Hunger
Author
: Srikanth
Blog
: Rock On
Date
: 2/23/2012 11:56:00 PM
'According to the World Food Program (WFP), hunger is the World's No.1 health risk as it kills more people annually than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Look at the screen shot below, I entered "People dying of " and google suggested hunger by default. Here is the list of Hunger Facts posted in WFP website: 925 million people do not have enough to eat and 98 percent of them live in developing countriesAsia and the Pacific region is home to over half the world’s po(...)'
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BPL-Below Poverty Line
Author
: Srikanth
Blog
: Rock On
Date
: 9/21/2011 1:24:00 AM
'We all heard about IPL-Indian Premier League. Very few of us including me heard about BPL. BPL is a term coined to describe people who are Below the Poverty Line.Yesterday (Sept 20, 2011), the so-called Planning commission submitted its report to the Supreme Court of India recommending the new poverty limits for urban and rural areas to be set at Rs. 965 and Rs. 781 per capita per month, respectively. To explain in simple lay man terms, a person living in an urban area spending(...)'
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