Author: daktre

  • Get it right, the copyright

    Responding to a call posted on the Rajya Sabha Website where now and then, standing committees mulling over our collective future as a nation act responsibly by inviting comments, I sent off the following comments on the proposed amendment to the Indian Copyright Act, 1957. All in all an opportunity which has only been half,…

  • Small talk 2010-05-23

    Ah! Even birds give in to that organic food fad! http://bit.ly/aMI2oU # Antelopes cheat too! http://bit.ly/dBpToV #theamericannaturalist # Hmm…and Craig Venter said, Let there be life…and there it was! http://bit.ly/c5BhwU # American pediatrics body advocates ritual genital mutilation in favour of behaviour modification to curb practice! http://bit.ly/bAn5ve # Shame on you #WHO. World Health Organisation…

  • Small talk 2010-05-16

    Corrupt #India regulator of medical education to be taken over by State! Aahhh! http://bit.ly/cpfsS0 # Call of the wild http://bit.ly/aboyKM @kalyanvarma. Book release at #Infosys tom. http://bit.ly/aaX3LR # http://xkcd.com/739/ #

  • Small talk 2010-05-09

    http://bit.ly/bofs4Z #India to regulate private sector…finally! #publichealth #

  • Small talk 2010-04-25

    #bmj trial finds little evidence for aspirin for people without risk factors or heart disease http://goo.gl/f b/nCCwm # http://bit.ly/ajm8yN video of spinner dolphins by @kalyanvarma # India raises #poverty line. Says over 400 million are under the new one! http://bit.ly/bV7GQ3 # India raises #poverty line estimatehttp://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704508904575191550764145376-lMyQjAxMTAwMDEwODExNDgyW # #Greenpeace tamasha at #Nestle meet http://bit.ly/bcUiDI #