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WHAT FACEBOOK & RELIANCE’S INTERNET.ORG MEANS TO NET NEUTRALITY, ME AND YOU – IS INTERNET REALLY ON ITS WAY TO BE FREE?

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Is it really the philanthropy to connect the not connected or just a clever idea to expand its customer base? Internet! Meet your new gatekeeper – Internet.org is here to dive you into a world of Facebook and other sites which are necessarily approved by Facebook itself in the veil of free internet, wait there’s more to the story, you’ll be warned that they’ll incur extra charges  in case you try to explore outside of the bubble served by Internet.org. So no clicks on links, no twitter, and no googling, all you do is Bing! For starters who don’t know what the writer is talking about in above lines, Internet.org in their own terms is a Facebook-led initiative bringing together technology leaders, nonprofits and local communities to connect the two thirds of the world that doesn't have internet access. They say their motive is to make Internet affordable to the masses, essentially the first time users who have not yet experienced what it means to browse the web. Accord

Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party scripts history crushing Narendra Modi wave – Is it Aam Aadmi’s victory or Modi’s defeat?

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R K Laxman would have been happy to see his Common Man take centre-stage and not stay somewhere in corner The creator of Common Man, late RK Laxman sir would have been triumphant to see his common man script history on political mindscape of India. His common man is no more the silent spectator but have grown to be wise enough now to exercise his power which our system bestows him once in five years. He not just watches the drama unfolding before him but takes note of who is saying what and who is doing what, and then punches the vote so hard that even the man on whose sole shoulders a party rode to power with astounding majority fails to manage to save its face. Single digit for a party who stormed national and state elections few months ago is just sham and nothing! Did Aam Aadmi Party use any intelligent strategy, master-stroke in now-just-over-historic Delhi elections? They didn’t. The AAP precisely used the open nature of Indian Democracy where nothing is written

On Shamitabh, the Bachchan's baritone, Dhanush and gorgeous Akshara Haasan...

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From a-film-per-week to no-film-for-months in theaters or big screens, my story of watching movies has come a long way after starting with work a year ago in an IT behemoth. I don’t know the reasons nor do I care for them all thanks to the crap we’re served day in and day out! When was the last time you watched a good movie on big screen? When was the last time a story of movie or performances of actors have floored you to be amazed at their ease? I just watched Shamitabh with all that big and awesome start-cast, and believe me I’m stunned! Not that I didn’t watched any movie in between but I did albeit rarely on big screen (The last was Happy New Year!) and much of them on my mean machine (read laptop). Must say, there’s something about this movie that has brought me in here to share with you all. I believe you already know which movie am I talking about and its cast. It has got big guns like Amitabh Bachchan and southern superstar Dhanush with debutant Akshara Haasan w