Friday, August 14, 2015

Read and Throttle Writers

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"We prefer to ban books rather than read them and throttle academics and writers."

...ToI Page 10 Thursday 13 August 2015



...Posted by Ishani

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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Deadly Sentence

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"The NLU is compiling data on all prisoners who have been executed since independence with the help of the central government."


...ToI Page 9, Tuesday 4 August 2015






...Posted by Ishani

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Sunday, August 2, 2015

Terrific Typos

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"The bench also took into consideration the typographical error wherein the state of Andhra Pradesh, instead of the central government, was directed to release funds..."

...ToI Page 5 Saturday 1 August 2015




gps: This reminds me of the morning when a senior professor entered the exam hall at IIT KGP thirty years back and announced a typo in his question paper to be corrected by his students: 

"Replace piston with flywheel in Question #3"






...Posted by Ishani

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Cyberabad Runners

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"After being on the run for for nearly a fortnight, the Cyberabad police have finally arrested 22-year-old Amit singh..."


ToI Page 3 Wednesday July 29, 2015


gps: Run, Police, Run!

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Common Man - 57

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"2 langurs deployed at President's residence to scare away monkeys"

...DC Page 3 Wednesday 1 July 2015





దండుల దండుల కోతులు
అండగ రామునుకి నిల్చి ఆదర మొందెన్
దండింప నట్టి కోతుల 
కొండల లంగూర్ల పంప క్రూరము మోడీ






...Posted by Ishani

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Monday, June 29, 2015

Common Man - 56

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HYDERABAD: Minutes after President Pranab Mukherjee drove into Rashtrapati Nilayam on Monday afternoon, a four-foot cobra was spotted slithering towards the heritage building at Bolarum leading to some tense moments...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/President-arrives-cobra-scare-at-RP-Nilayam/articleshow/47872027.cms






శ్రీనాథు తల్ప మొదిలితి 
హర్నాథుని కంఠ మొదల హర్షము తోడన్
నిన్నాహ్వానించుటకై
ప్రాణాపాయ మయెనాకు ప్రణభ ముఖర్జీ 




...Posted by Ishani

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Common Man - 55

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A python died after eating a porcupine at the Lake Eland Game Reserve in South Africa.






"12 ft python's last supper: 13 kg porcupine"

...ToI Page 10 Monday 29 June 2015





కొండంత కొండ చిలువొక
కుండంతటి ముళ్ళ పంద్ని కూరుకు మ్రింగన్
కొండంటి కొండ చిలువయు
పొట్టంతయు చీలి చచ్చె పాపం మోడీ





...Posted by Ishani

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