Venu Naturopathy

 

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Tears and Time and the Rivers

Rivers flow but they tell us no more
Where they come from , where they go,

Sermons, Soliloquys, are an awful Bore!

Since we don’t know why we are here
Let’s do what the the Heaven we like,

Let’s Think Again

Impatience they say, now holds sway
Impatience will bring forth gains,

I C B M's

You see, I C B M’s, as the much-touted
 

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Is the world celebrating the new year in a vacuum?

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Where are the engineers who will build India?

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BJP’s Gujarat electoral victory: Polarizations to the fore

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Will Pakistan ever apologise for the 1971 genocide?

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Celebrating India’s Constitution: Reducing widening inequality should be the goal

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A tale of two pardons in India: Setting a bad example

The message being sent out is ominous: What kind of society do we wish to create where, if victims and their families belong to a certain religion or class, they must be prepared to live with the perpetrators of crimes against them roaming free?

Needed ‘dignity in disaster’ for Assam’s female residents during annual floods

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Twitter tantrums: Free enterprise, unfree enterprises, public distrust

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Inserting communal angles in sensational murders: Grave threat to social peace

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