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Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" - historical fiction. Brilliantly imagined life of Thomas Cromwell - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell,_1st_Earl_of…

"Customer Happiness Hacker/Intern/Person".

"Jugaad" is more make-do/being (very) resourceful in situations where there aren't other options. "Hack" has a more playful, irreverent connotation whereas jugaad is resourcefulnes…

"If I stay out late with a girl, it's almost automatic that I will escort her home regardless of the inconvenience to me." That works for those holding on to even the lowermost run…

+ elopements,adultery and the like.

Its a weekly magazine,this article being in the next week's print edition.

Original - http://too.blogspot.com/2008/09/lrrk2.html

Brin's blog post on his higher genetic predisposition to Parkinson's - http://too.blogspot.com/2008/09/lrrk2.html

My experience may be an extreme one but the last apartment I shared,my flatmate would go for long periods without talking to me at all,only communicating by writing note after note…

Reminded me of Mirinda

This might help - http://youtu.be/mWBvcJAXwu4 (Simon & Garfunkel)

Taking the article's numbers at its face value - 2.75 million vs 3.6 million is not huge difference.But apart from a smallish startup scenario in metropolitan areas,the situation i…

Related - http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary

You would lump the entire country being a "fucking mess"?

http://www.algo-class.org/

For anyone wanting to work in the software/startup/tech scene,Bangalore is the best.The weather is always on the cooler side,its smaller in size compared to other metropolitan citi…

I learnt Indian classical music till I was high school and then had to completely give it up for different reasons.I haven't practiced it much since then and I regret it badly. And…

The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker Interesting Times - Eric Hobsbawm The Great Crash, 1929 - John Galbraith

The C Programming Language(K&R) and The Unix Programming Environment are the best to start off with.

Yes,given that 1)you have money saved 2)your family won't starve 3)you are prepared for anything that comes next.

QA engineer from India.Worked for about a year and a half for Opera Software as QA on web applications.Would be good to know about remote work positions,if any.

India

Try this : http://www.opera.com/