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Post 9/11 Blues
A rap song about 9/11?? The song is called "Post 9/11 Blues" by British Asian RizMC. Its a hard hitting song about the fallout from September 11th with a seemingly jolly backing track. Its been doing the rounds here in the UK especially on the South Asian Radio Shows ( Read more... ) -
What's in a name?
For those of you not in the know, my Christian name is Shobhit (pronounced Show-bit), it is derived from the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit (maybe I should have said my Sanskrit name!), and roughly translates into English as "He who is covered in glory ( Read more... ) -
Springtime in the UK
Spring is well and truly established now in the Northern hemisphere and our back garden in an array of dashing colour thats brought a certain amount of warm feeling after a cold and dark winter. So I thought I'd share a few pictures of whats growing "out back"
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On Liberia
Liberia - land of the free - this is not a phrase to be taken lightly, being a country settled by freed American slaves, it has a much deeper resonance to it ( Read more... ) -
Why do people swear?
Swearing is as hold as the spoken word (or so I assume). People swear to emphasise a point, to threaten, under stress, in excitement or in annoyance - that is to say that people swear at almost anything ( Read more... ) -
Crazy people
I came across this video - I can't believe people can be so crazy. This woman rants about how terrorist attacks in America are retribution from God and protesting at a soldiers funeral - how bad in taste can you get ( Read more... ) -
On Back Pain
Theres so much illness that I've seen as a medical student and I thought, in my vanity, that I understood how they felt, but now I realise you can never truly appreciate the pain that someone else is going through and any attempt to prove empathy or sympathy is essentially false. What has awakened this thought in me you ask ( Read more... )
