American English accent is extremely dry, lifeless, dull, unfeeling, monotonous and boring - British accent, in contrast, is full of life!

Examples of American accent as described by me:

• Marissa Mayer's IIT commencement address [link]

Both religion and corporate policy are like mini constitutions that should operate within the boundaries of national law

• Corporate policy [like the reddit user agreement or the Reddit Content Policy], essentially a company's rule book, dictates a company's course of action and also its responses to events, thus acting like a constitution. For example, it appears that CNN's internal constitution book calls for both covert and overt criticism of Russia, which happens to be in line with the foreign policy of America.
• In some sense, each religion is also like a mini constitution. It tells its followers what course of action to follow and how to respond to events in life. However, religious teachings at times go against national law. Examples follow:
• A few years ago wearing helmets was made mandatory for females driving or sitting as pillion rider on two-wheeler bikes in Ludhiana. Sikh women refused to follow this law citing religious prohibition on wearing headgear. This is an example of religion going against national law [and even basic personal safety in this case].
• A second example also concerns the Sikhs. The movement to allow bearing/carrying a knife ["kirpan"] in public places [including schools, aircraft/airports, cafes, shopping malls, etc.] is also an example of religious preaching going against national law [and public safety in this case].

The Moscow Kremlin looks far more architecturally rich than America's White House - the latter doesn't look magnificent

Till a few years ago, there was more physical, real interaction and socialization in our societies

People used to physically interact with friends, neighbors, cousins, colleagues, etc., more in the past. There was no Kindle, and so physical books were shared. There was no iTunes, so VHS tapes [for VCRs] or audio cassettes or CDs were passed around. What's more, overall scarcity of stuff meant that people had to interact with each other. And there was no Yahoo Messenger, no WhatsApp, so the concept of interacting virtually or having "online friends" was either non-existent or nascent.

People don't meet or interact that much these days. Technology has a major contribution in this change.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and political correctness in the United States - what a shitty society America has become

It makes me laugh that saying Merry Christmas in USA of today makes some/many people offended, and that saying Happy Holidays is somehow acceptable. What an intolerant dustbin America of today has become. Companies such as Google - no matter how hard they pretend to be ethical, moral and a defender of rights - properly succumb to this political correctness fever every year. Thankfully, Bing rightly celebrates Christmas. Sometimes that is.

You can always, always see it on their faces!

Whenever a beauty pageant winner - be it Miss World or Miss Universe - completes one year of her reign and the fateful time comes to hand over the signature crown to the next chosen girl, you can always see a strange feeling of sadness mixed with visible jealousy in her eyes. On the stage, she pretends to be smiling, but inside her she isn't - and it can be seen on her face and in her gestures. And this is despite the fact that she had herself decrowned some other girl just a year back, and she always knew that the crown won't be with her forever.

Salman Khan's acquittal reminds me of scenes from Jolly LLB #SalmanVerdict

The photo below of a newspaper story almost clearly shows that the Bombay High Court judge probably knowingly gave a pro-Salman judgment [out of either bribery or Modi government pressure or dire threats or all three], despite strong evidence proving Salman's culpability in the crime. Reminded me of several scenes from Jolly LLB.

If a corrupt judge wants to free a murderer in front of well over a billion people's eyes, he can just quietly write that the evidence isn't evidence after all. Brilliant!

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I like FIAT and Fiat Linea

I've liked both Fiat and Linea for a long time now. I especially like Fiat's diesel engine that powers both Swift and Swift Dzire. I think the Linea is a good car, and it would've done better in the Indian market if not for the not-so-nice image that Fiat has here.

Pakistani and Turkish flags are so similar

Classic Putin!

‘Hopefully, no nukes will be needed’ against ISIS – Putin

Rishabh Singla claps with joy :)