vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Nov 14, 2009, 10:25 am
This is an essay on the issue of sexual harassment in university Campuses and the role of the student community in its prevention. This essay was submitted as an entry to the GSCASH. I also presented ...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Nov 14, 2009, 9:48 am
This 800 words essay was written in response to the Mera India Bridge the Gap Essay Contest. It was very hurriedly written (not at all a scholarly attempt) in less than one hour and comprises of my cr...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Nov 9, 2009, 11:42 am
Advertisements from the user side are not allowed on the free wordpress.com blogs (only VIP blogs and self-hosted wordpress.org blogs can have them).
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Nov 8, 2009, 12:54 am
Sometimes some handicraft item looks so beautiful. This hand-made cycle made of aluminium wires is so beautiful! I bought it in 20 Rupees near Rajghat, New Delhi (it was also available at Lal Qila). T...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Nov 5, 2009, 6:55 am
This is a short Hindi poem on cold and cough/common cold. I am suffering from cold and cough from almost three days now and ended up writing these Hindi lines (poem) on the issue. This Hindi poem will...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Nov 4, 2009, 10:37 pm
You need offline blogging tools if you badly miss the following aspects with your WordPress or BlogSpot in-built editor: write your post without any internet connection, save a local draft on your mac...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Oct 30, 2009, 7:10 am
Some days ago I had bought my own domain name and now I have used the domain forward option with WordPress and it points to my blog. Hereafter my blog address is http://vikas-gupta.in and not vikasgup...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Oct 27, 2009, 2:41 am
The uninitiated may read about “love guru” Professor Matuk Nath and Julie, arguably India’s most controversial couple, here and here. Yesterday evening addressed the JNU students at ...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Oct 24, 2009, 12:27 am
‘Urdu Hai Jiska Naam is distributing it free of cost. All you have to do is submit an email to the Officer on Special Duty Lt. Col. A.K. Mohla. Read on to know more. The following is a descript...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Oct 18, 2009, 12:12 am
These are photos of the Diwali celebrations from the Sabarmati Hostel and the JNU campus. The Rangoli was made by students in the Sabarmati Hostel. The last pic is of the food festival Tastopia held n...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Oct 17, 2009, 5:40 am
This comics highlighting the noise and air pollution from the firecrackers related to the festival of Diwali was made in response to the popular media blog Churmuri’s contest for a creative Diwa...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Oct 5, 2009, 3:41 am
I am planning to self-host two of my WordPress blogs and ran into a lot of good information and useful tips and tricks. This is a brief collection of my web hosting wisdom obtained as a result of my r...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Oct 4, 2009, 2:42 am
A delegation of some 40 Pakistanis was in the JNU campus for an interactive sessions with JNU students yesterday evening at the Sutlej Hostel mess of JNU campus (which proved to be small for the occas...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 30, 2009, 1:56 pm
Rahul Gandhi, AICC General Secretary and MP, Lok Sabha was in the JNU campus yesterday to address a public meeting on the topic ‘Youth, Politics and Development.’ It was definitely not an...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 28, 2009, 11:35 am
A religious festival in a premiere educational institution and that too in the ‘bastion of the left’? Yes! It is not only the Durga Puja which is celebrated within the JNU campus but also ...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 25, 2009, 8:45 am
At about 11 AM today who claimed to know people in the hostel and tried to enter students’ rooms with the intention of stealing. As it unfolded later, this man “Mayank Kapoor” went ...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 23, 2009, 2:29 pm
Yesterday evening supported by the PVR CSR wing. Oscar nominated director Shekhar Kapoor and some other dignitaries were also present. This is a review of the event, a review of the PVR cinema, a sho...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 17, 2009, 11:46 pm
Click here to read the part I of the report which has snapshots from his twitter account about the ‘cattle class holy cows’ controversy raked up by people who do not understand and appreci...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 16, 2009, 1:17 pm
Trouble is brewing over Shashi Tharoor’s tongue-in-cheek twitter remark to a question by journalist Kanchan Gupta the ‘Cattle class’ is an internationally popular slang for the stand...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 15, 2009, 4:01 am
Another death followed hard on the heels of Aishvarya’s death in the JNU campus. Dr. Sarpudden, senior faculty member from Govt. Arts College Trichy staying in the JNU campus died due to lack of...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 12, 2009, 2:16 am
The multicultural, plural JNU has many nice aspects that are not very common in other universities or educational institutions. One of these is the Iftar parties held in various hostels of JNU campus....
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 10, 2009, 2:28 pm
The photo on the left is of Aishvarya Agrawal, M.Tech student with the School of Information Technology who passed away yesterday at about 11 PM IST. The manifest, ostensible, medical reason is that ...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 10, 2009, 3:50 am
Tagging and Blog Memes are quite popular in the blogosphere. I have been tagged before by fellow bloggers but unfortunately could not follow them. Recently Arpit tagged me and I am doing the needful b...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 8, 2009, 10:15 am
... facts are an interesting collection of some of the data relating to users on Orkut, the popular social networking site founded on 22 January ... ; Only 16.42 per cent are manifestly for the datin...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 6, 2009, 8:31 am
Dutch company AZS media group ltd on 1 September 2009 has launched ‘Imhalal’ : the first even search engine for Muslims “after seven months of intensive development!” This is m...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 3, 2009, 8:20 am
The 8 millennium development goals have to be achieved by 2015 and that is an impossible uphill task particularly for developing countries like ... ” and the Women’s Feature Service suppo...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Sep 1, 2009, 10:54 am
Yesterday called on the issue of the Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations implementation in the Campus, the JNU campus witnessed some violence. Please note that I was NOT present during the meeting and I...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Aug 29, 2009, 5:05 am
... have a simple marriage ceremony with minimum expenditure and conspicuous consumption thereby setting an example before the Indian society where marriages are mired in dowry, pomp and show?! JNU...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Aug 22, 2009, 12:31 pm
These are some stories, questions and events related to the recent JNU Ragging case which have remained unanswered and which are not covered by the mainstream media. I am a PhD student with JNU who li...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Aug 15, 2009, 2:25 am
This is a pictorial documentation. It has many interesting photos including a flu mask, kids, my ladoos and the first lady of JNU among other things. The JNU Administration flag hoisting photos Me r...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Aug 14, 2009, 8:20 am
I had published a post on JNU ragging here some hours ago and I have deleted it on second thoughts because it was not a balanced view. The inconvenience is regretted. Posted in Blogging, Society/Polit...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Aug 14, 2009, 5:48 am
This is my observation on the JNU ragging case which is everywhere in the media now. Pleases note that I have talked to the accused and also talked to the complainant on phone. I am writing here my an...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Aug 13, 2009, 12:48 pm
The following Hindi poem on India is by friend and writer Wasi Bastavi aka Wasi-Ul-Haque, a PhD student at CAAS, SLL&CS, JNU. This was originally a song on India and all things Indian. This Hindi poem...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Aug 10, 2009, 6:38 am
This is a detailed account of ‘www. gigapedia.com’ –”the knowledge sharing site”- including how to download books from the website with elaborate instructions and snapshots. ...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Aug 10, 2009, 6:33 am
The need for access to JSTOR in developing nations Access to JSTOR. However there is a way to access JSTOR archives in developing nations with an internet connection right on your laptop or desktop. ...
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vikas g. posted an article on VIKAS GUPTA - Aug 8, 2009, 7:29 am
This is a multimedia report of the public meeting organised by the Democratic Students’ Union.  This was probably the fifth time I had listened to Arundhati Roy; she does not look like a woman ...
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