http://thealienworld.com An effort to understand the real world! Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:17:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thealienworld.com/2012/01/19/literates-on-the-road/ http://thealienworld.com/2012/01/19/literates-on-the-road/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:19:16 +0000 Nitin http://thealienworld.com/?p=1218 Yesterday’s (18-Jan-2012) Times-Of-India top headline was “Insensitive cops upload gory accident on FB”. My sympathies are with the bus driver who was driving the bus which hit the girl & girl’s family members. Hope she recovers soon. It was her mistake to break the signal, for which she ended up in hospital. Lots of people [...]

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]]> http://thealienworld.com/2012/01/15/jeremy-clarksons-insensitivity/feed/ 0 http://thealienworld.com/2011/05/26/our-first-major-wildlife-excursion-the-lucky-day/ http://thealienworld.com/2011/05/26/our-first-major-wildlife-excursion-the-lucky-day/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 16:38:47 +0000 Nitin http://thealienworld.com/?p=1046 27th-May was supposed to be our last day at Kanha, and we were to start our journey to Pench National Park after breakfast. We did that but not as originally planned. The previous evening, after last two unsuccessful safaris, we had decided to try our luck again next day before starting for Pench. It was [...]

]]> http://thealienworld.com/2011/05/26/our-first-major-wildlife-excursion-the-lucky-day/feed/ 2 http://thealienworld.com/2011/05/23/our-first-major-wildlife-excursion-close-encounter-with-the-tigress/ http://thealienworld.com/2011/05/23/our-first-major-wildlife-excursion-close-encounter-with-the-tigress/#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 23:30:21 +0000 Nitin http://thealienworld.com/?p=1030 Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? -          William Blake, 1794 Our stay at Kanha Kanah is full of amazing animals – brilliant colored jungle fowl, amazing peacocks, rare hard ground deer (barahsingha), hornbill, leopards, sloth bear, bison, fox, jackal, 100 of [...]

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]]> http://thealienworld.com/2011/05/15/our-first-major-wildlife-excursion-%e2%80%93-reaching-kanha/feed/ 0 http://thealienworld.com/2011/04/08/jan-lokpal-bill/ http://thealienworld.com/2011/04/08/jan-lokpal-bill/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:48:34 +0000 Nitin http://thealienworld.com/?p=1000 As the last remaining Gandhian Anna Hazare enters into the 4th day of his indefinite fasting, the numbers of his supporters swells phenomenally. At 72, it is amazing & inspiring to see his selfless fight for the country & her citizen. But why & for what is this Old Gandhian fighting for? He is fighting [...]

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