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Only 6 more months :) :(

It's that time of the year again. Every body's scrambling for their books to study. The bright ones take it with casual ease, while the slackers struggle to cope with the massive syllabus. As my friends and everyone around me move with worried expressions and exam frenzy, i wonder whether they realize that the Mid-terms or the Quarterly Examination as we call it, marks the end of our last year in school. Only 6 more months to go for college or whatever plans we have after school. So I sat and thought about it. Do I really regret leaving school? I'm surprised at the answer i come up with. 12 years of education in the same school and i realize I WANT to go. Move on to bigger, better things. Not only that, these last two years leave a bitter taste in my mouth. They weren't exactly the 'fun filled years' that high school kids in other countries(or even cities, in my case) enjoy. They were mostly dreary, study-24x7-and-still-cant-get-a-good-grade years. And I've
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Nuclear Energy- Both sides of the coin

I read an article yesterday in The Hindu called 'Why Kudankulam is untenable' by Suvrat Raju and M.V Ramana. I've never heard of them, but they seemed so sure that the Kudankulam plant should be scrapped. They even went so far as to say that India doesn't need nuclear power. What crap. Okay, may be nuclear reactors in India don't produce as much power as promised. But the potential still exists. Actually, we're not able to produce much power from nuclear energy because we don't know how to use it more efficiently. How're countries like France and Lithuania(Lithuania at that!) able to generate as much as 78% of their electricity from nuclear sources? Obviously, they have/know something we don't. And instead of trying to figure out what that is, we're sitting and talking about shutting the whole thing down. It doesn't make sense at all. BUT(a big one)you can't say the whole nuclear thing's safe either. Fukushima's taught us that. W
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India has always been a victim of the inhuman acts of terrorism. Ever since Independence and the attack on Parliament by insurgents, the cities of India have been plagued by bomb blasts, shoot-outs and the like. The perpetrators are almost always people who use terror on communal lines and try to impose the fact that their religion is the one and only true religion in the world. The religion that naturally comes to our minds is Islam or the Muslim community. For almost all of the blasts occuring in India and abroad, Muslim insurgency groups like Al-Queda, Mujahideen, etc have been responsible. Maybe this is true, maybe this isn't. People all fight over one and only one fact. Not Who did it, or Why they did it but always, Which COMMUNITY did it? This is the one question always talked about. Why do people never realize that the answer to this question does not matter? What DOES matter is Why they did it. The answer, actually, is quite simple. The aim of such terrorist acts is to ind
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