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Amol Hatwar’s perspectives on art, culture, business, science and technology

Post archive for ‘Culture’

Sarkozy’s Burqa Ban

The French President, Nikolas Sarkozy, recently made comments against muslim women wearing the burqa. A ban may succeed in getting passed by the Parliament. But, is it right to do so?

Does it serve the purpose?

Passwords are good. But when you subscribe to a lot of services, you start swimming in the so-called “password soup”. I have friends who prefer keeping one password for everything, they probably don’t care about what might happen when that one password gets out. That’s why we have password managers. Recently, I tried SplashID for [...]

Ban Shri Ram Sena

Organizations like Shri Ram Sena need to be banned. Around 15-20 activists of this group were involved in beating up boys and molesting girls in a pub in Mangalore. When TV channels picked it up, the founder of the organization, Mr Pramod Muthalik maintained that this is a small incident and doesn’t deserve national coverage. [...]