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DC area has large and fairly active Jat community. Anyone interested in becoming member of Jat association can send me his/her email id. We usually have a picnic in summer and another get together at Diwali. -vinod

Here is the relevant paragraph. Whole page is too big to upload. -V.

Laxmanji, Provide the original link from where this shloka is taken. Lets see what does Jatah stand for here. Give the link of the chapter in MBH. -vinod

A practical way of dealing with extreme gender ratios in two states of India.... http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IER20070628021356&Page=R&Title=Kerala&Topic=0 what say? -v

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Catch 22 is unlike any other book. During WWII a US Air Force squadron is stationed on an island Pianosa, near Italy. Main plot revolves around bombardier Yossarian’s persistent attempts to escape the ridiculous, desperate, and tragic circumstances created by...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Welcome to the Brave New World. It is a “utopian world” envisaged by Aldous Huxley in 632AF (After Ford) where dream of universal human happiness has been materialized. Huxley’s totalitarian world is similar to Orwell’s 1984 in the sense that an all-powerful...

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. It takes up not long after Genesis left off and carries through to the air age...

16) Rabbit, Run by John Updike I had heard about John Updike's famous Rabbit series, two of which won Pulitzer. So I wanted to read one book and first book in the series was a natural choice in case I like it and come back to read another. One thing you can't overlook in this book is the...

11) Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Steinbeck tells story of a Oklahoma family during the Great Depression. It's about intense struggle of ordinary people facing economical desperation. To understand the background of the story it is helpful to read little bit about the condition of the south...

6) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie In my view this is the most brilliant English novel written by an Indian writer (not considering Naipaul an Indian), truly justified as the Booker of the Bookers. Saleem Sinai and thousand other children are born at the stroke of midnight when a country...

1) "The Moon and Sixpences" by Somersaut Maugham I had read Maugham's short stories but wanted to read a novel to get familiar with his writing in depth. "Of Human Bondage" is too long so I settled with "The Moon and Sixpences". It is story of a English broker, Charles Strickland who suddenly...

Just happened to see this thread. Actually I have removed stuff from my site so I would put some reviews here. Am tied up in some work so am not that regular here these days. Some time back I planned to write reviews of all the books I liked and promised to myself to write 1 review per day but...

Laxmanji, Let me first say that you are doing great job in writing such articles. But at the same time let me make a comment which I wanted to make for long time but couldn't dare because of respect for your effort and also due to the unspoken consensus amongst our little group not to...

Looks like we have small group of Engineering Physics (EP) graduates here. Myself being from same program in IITB and Shobhit Deshwal from the same in IITD. Though I may not be of much use in getting him intern lets keep in touch for future. -VS

this quote about Krishna comes from Al Biruni's book on India written around 1000AD (2000 years after Krishna's time)... al biruni's book is valuable source on India's history and full text is available in DLI website... this particular quote occurs casually in one sentence and shouldn't be...