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Happy Republic Day

India became a republic on January 26th, 1950. As a reminder to myself (I often tend to feel helpless about my lack of awareness/engagement with issues back home), here is Wikipedia on Republic: A republic is a form of government in which the head of state is not a monarch and the people (or at least a part of [...]
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easyJet blues

Image via Wikipedia Over the past few years, the domestic airlines industry in the US has seen a steady decline. Faced with the recession, they have been devising ever new ways of squeezing money out of unsuspecting customers. There are a few exceptions (such as Southwest), but by far, flying is usually not a very pleasant [...]
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Blue balls

Most Americans I talk to feel that I was raised here, because I don’t have the “Indian accent”. I don’t know about that, but what I do know is that cultural differences can show up in the least unexpected places. I’m reminded of an incident that happened in my second year in grad school. We were [...]
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Earth Hour

As you can see from the bar on the top of the site (if you are reading this in your RSS reader, take a break and step out to the real site for a minute), Floating Sun is participating in Earth Hour. What is Earth Hour?: Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million [...]
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Quick note about the formatting issues

If you see some formatting issues with the content here, it is because I have disabled the WP-Dokuwiki plugin temporarily while I investigate some performance issues. In the meantime I am also trying to convert the content to plain old HTML where possible. So please bear with me and drop me a note if something [...]
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