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Counter with own
You try so hard to be someone else. But you just have to be yourself. Don’t let someone tell you who you are. Your own choice can take you so far. Sometimes you fall when you should fly. Sometimes you laugh when you should cry. But that’s just some things that make you. And deep…
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: Founder of the Turkish Republic
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in 1881 in Salonika (now Thessaloniki) in what was then the Ottoman Empire. His father was a minor official and later a timber merchant. When Atatürk was 12, he was sent to military school and then to the military academy in Istanbul, graduating in 1905. In 1911, he served against…
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Abdul Kalam a true secularist
A P J Abdul Kalam was just a name to me until sometime in 2000, when I had to necessarily meet him on a personal mission. I was CBI Director, and he Principal Scientific Adviser to the PM. He had his office in South Block and the meeting was arranged courtesy my college classmate T…
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Hosting Teen Parties: What’s Your Liability, Good Parenting lesson
I have nieces and nephews who range in age from eighteen to late twenties. I am sure it was a real drag for them when their fun-loving, risk-taking aunt turned into an overly cautious, suspicious lawyer. Sure, they’ll be happy to have me if they ever get divorced or sued, but until then, I suspect…