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Rajiv Gandhi, an Indian politician assasinated by the LTTE is remembered at Transcurrents.com.
Bongo Vongo has a podcast of an english translation of Rabindranath Tagore's works.
The reservation issue in India is still burning. Photographs, opinions and some sarcasm.
The Bombay Stock Exchange seems to have been jumping on a trampoline today. The ups and down of a single day captured at Don't Trust the Indian Media.
Bhutan Weblog on the constitution, orchestrated debates and hope for Bhutan's future.
Do men and women argue in different ways in online forums? Pickled Politics on gender, the way we argue and the differences. The comment space is especially interesting.
Lemuel of Deleted by Tomorrow writes about and posts a video of an incident that took place during a Czech Dentist Association conference two weeks before the general election: Miroslav Macek, former minister from an opposition party (Civic Democratic), smacked David Rath, health minister from the governing party (Social Democratic), on the head because of a “private affair.” “If these were civilised times they would have had a duel. But then if these were civilised times, there wouldn’t be a raving power-hungry Bolshevik demagogue Health minister and a pathetic clown wouldn’t have to be his main critic and I wouldn’t have to write this post,” writes Lemuel.
Iryna of TOL's Belarus Blog writes about an unprecedented (even for Belarus) trial: “We have become used to the fact that prominent academics and journalists are being sentenced to 15 days in prison for swearing or hooliganism, but last week a student was actually tried for sending a text message to another student.”
TOL's Belarus Blog reports on the Belarusian blogosphere's lack of interest in such important issues as the EU's initiatives to freeze Aleksandr Lukashenko's assets and boycott an Interpol conference in Minsk. Polina Smolova's very poor performance at this year's Eurovision Song Contest is widely discussed in Belarusian LiveJournals, however.
TOL's Belarus Blog cites Google Trends and Technorati to show that Belarus has virtually disappeared “from the radars of mainstream media” and bloggers.
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