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The global slowdown in economical progression is understood to have been caused by American recession. Well, most of developing countries on this planet depend much on American economy. After all America is the biggest importer of goods and service. What caused American recession is a matter of great debate these days. Recently I found some interesting reports hitting the headlines of some leading dailies. While surfing the net I stumbled across a site worldpress.com where renowned economist Prieu Du Pleissis blamed four factors for this development. They sound the same what most of the experts diagnosed. First of all , the slowdown in US economy though drawing attention in recent months but it started in no less than six years ago. The wages in US is traditionally high. There a taxi driver earns about $250 per day. Where as in India they earn in terms of USD about $5-6 only! Here is the key for the reason why US heavily has to depend on outsourcing. To remain competitive, most of the...

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Here goes a story which has reference to Indian history during Mughal dynasty. Note, "Kulcha" .. is a hand made loaf, baked in manner to last for days and used to have tasty condiments within its thick and soft platter. This is not exactly a "funny" story. Nevertheless, it makes interesting reading because of a possible supernatural element in it. Perhaps this could be categorised under, "strange facts", but I am posting it here instead of starting a different thread for that. Before going out on an expedition to the Deccan, Mir Qamaruddin Khan, (a subehdar under Aurangzeb), visited the the sufi saint Nizam-ud-din Aulia to seek his blessings. The saint gave him "kulchas" to eat, and carry with him on his long journey to the south. When the subehdar was leaving Delhi, Hazrat Nizam-ud-din asked him whether he had eaten any of the kulchas given to him. Qamaruddin replied that he had in fact eaten seven of them and packed the rest for the journey. Pl...

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon. What a downer!!!! It was not at all about ummm u know what! It was all about the booze!!!

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A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself, 'Two plus five, the son of a bitch is seven. Three plus six, the son of a bitch is nine...' His mother heard what he was saying and gasped, 'What are you doing?' The little boy answered, 'I'm doing my math homework, Mom.' 'And this is how your teacher taught you to do it?' the mother asked. 'Yes,' he answered. Infuriated, the mother asked the teacher the next day, 'What are you teaching my son in math?' The teacher replied, 'Right now, we are learning addition.' The mother asked, 'And are you teaching them to say two plus two, the Son Of a bitch is four?' After the teacher stopped laughing, she answered, 'What I taught them Was, two plus two, THE SUM OF WHICH, is four.

A little girl asked her mother, "How did the human race come about?" The mother answered, "God made Adam and Eve and they had children and so all mankind was made." Two days later she asks her father the same question. The father answered, "Many years ago there were monkeys, and we developed from them." The confused girl returns to her mother and says: "Mom, how is it possible that you told me that the human race was created by God and Papa says we developed from monkeys?" The mother answers, "Well dear, it is very simple. I told you about the origin of my side of the family, and your father told you about his side."

Yesterday the oil price in the New York crude market touched all time high i.e $120 per barrel ! Though it came down by few cents within hours , but it is alarming. Following the cue the London crude price also spiraled high. Obviously the high crude price is going make you and me pay through our nose even for buying essentials. They blame OPEC, being inflexible to increase the production, the Nigerian crisis, the Iranian imbroglio and the devastated Iraq. Besides , there is no dearth of speculators to fish in troubled water, who are speculating on oil and making a hay day for themselves. These all are things to be contemplated and discussed by the national leaders and economic thinkers, but how about the common men? Who will be their messiah to save them? Is there any answer?