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Sreedhar Pillai
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After graduating in Mechanical Engineering and spinning a rewarding career spanning from mining to metal cans in the steel Industry, Shred Pillai loves to look at softer aspects of life around us. He likes to look at the world through the swinging needle of a balance rather than the cross hairs of a rifle. GOD's own country, the idyllic southern part of India from where he hails, marvellous France and wonderful British Isles where he worked, the US and Canada which he admires are all on his sight of vision. Shred is a regular writer for Technorati and has his own Blog Lasting Rose in which he covers subjects closer to his heart.

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How America's Universities Reinvent Business By Helping Students Adapt iPods for Underwater Audio Entertainment

(0) Comments | Posted June 13, 2013 | 5:33 PM

When the going gets tough the tough gets going, even if it means taking something as delicate as an iPod shuffle or headsets under water.

At least that is what a young entrepreneur of one of America's responsive universities has come up with to create a

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Have Google's Panda and Penguin Replaced SEO With Social, PR and Content, or a New Type of Savvy Marketing?

(13) Comments | Posted June 3, 2013 | 5:13 PM

As a blogger who can't tell a Panda from a Penguin, at least the ones prowling on the web, I decided to investigate when I noticed changes in the Google search results of my posts and was told I might be the victim of the pair of these...

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The Secret to Finding a Great Title for Your Blog

(0) Comments | Posted May 22, 2013 | 8:06 AM

More than a decade ago, when I wanted to register my first domain, I didn't know what to call it. But I was excited at the feeling and fun of registering and becoming the proud owner of a domain when no one had heard of Google, Yahoo or Facebook and...

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How to Write a Blog Post in One Hour That Is Guaranteed to be Published, Get Noticed and Even Go Viral!

(2) Comments | Posted May 14, 2013 | 12:12 AM

If you are one of those who keep staring at your desktop and flipping through the tabs for hours, even days, wondering how to write your next blog post, you are not alone! The web is full of tips and advice for bloggers like you on how to...

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White Goat and Caged Parrot -- How the Indian Media Failed to See Facts From Fiction

(0) Comments | Posted May 12, 2013 | 12:19 PM

Like the rest of the industrial sectors that see a future in the huge untapped Indian market, the Western media has also partnered with Indian upstarts. However, unlike in other industries, the lack of substance and quality in the daily output of the Indian brands, which carry names like

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Is Andrew Sullivan's Way the Only Way for Bloggers Who Want to Make Real Money?

(0) Comments | Posted April 5, 2013 | 10:51 AM

Amidst a raging debate, stemming from a recent Pew report on the state of news media, whether it is the Golden Age of journalism or it is barely breathing its last, the journalistic world is keenly watching Andrew Sullivan's recent "pay...

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Is Sonia Gandhi a Real Indian Saint Accused as an Italian Carpet Bagger?

(3) Comments | Posted March 19, 2013 | 12:03 PM

Few women in history had to undergo a life as dramatic as that of Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance, which had been governing India for the last seven years.

In fact, the personal and emotional turmoil Sonia was forced to...

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It's Now or Never to Rename Valentine's Day as Elvis Day

(0) Comments | Posted February 12, 2013 | 4:14 AM

If you are someone who feel a tightness in your chest and tear drops swell in your eyes as you listen to any of Elvis' songs, perhaps no one but Elvis can make your Valentine's Day! You are almost certainly a baby boomer and you owe this to Elvis before...

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Could Elvis Have Shaped the Social Web Differently?

(12) Comments | Posted February 6, 2013 | 10:52 AM

Facebook has amassed a gargantuan membership of over a billion people and Twitter aims to catch up with new features like Vine, taking micro-blogging to new levels. This spectacular growth of the social web, no doubt, is largely due to its nature as a free place for social...

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Addicted to Facebook? There Is Hope. Now You Can Get Addicted to Vine With Vinepeek!

(0) Comments | Posted January 29, 2013 | 3:11 PM

Vinepeek has the potential and power to replace Facebook and Twitter in your life. For that very reason, no one can say how long it will last. However before you read this further, you must be aware that Vinepeek brings to you people's lives in uncensored, raw, six...

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Why Won't the Indians Accept Rahul Gandhi as Their Own Obama?

(15) Comments | Posted January 24, 2013 | 3:45 PM

The opinion of Tony Blair, given during a visit to Delhi in 2008 as an ex-Prime Minister of the U.K, turned out to be as much intuitive as it was prophetic: "I think he [Rahul] is one of the most talented, able and insightful of the younger generation...

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You Don't Have to Chuck Your DVR in the Bin If You Are Addicted to the Social TV

(1) Comments | Posted January 8, 2013 | 12:49 PM

Here is a relatively obscure snippet of news, which could have made the corporate honchos of the leading makers of DVR like TiVo, Motorola, RCA, Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba and cable companies like Time Warner, Comcast and Cox which offer TV packages that include a DVR, sit up and take...

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Was the Newtown Speech the Most Difficult to Deliver for Obama?

(1) Comments | Posted December 20, 2012 | 4:45 PM

One day, when Barack Obama will no more be the president of the United States, someone will venture to make a movie on his life. It will be almost impossible to find an actor willing to enact the president's role because the performance of the future actor will be measured...

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Six Reasons Why Barack Obama Could Be Another Three Term POTUS in the Making

(17) Comments | Posted November 13, 2012 | 1:55 AM

For those who believe in celestial interventions in affairs on the earth, there were indications of the reelection of President Barack Obama and even a third term in office. But for mundane observers, a look at the events to the run up of the presidential election, its conduct...

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Could the Secret of Romance of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor have been an evening of Sea bas and Sancerre in Swansea?

(0) Comments | Posted October 1, 2012 | 1:38 PM

They say the April weather is like a woman's heart. But if you have ever been in Wales, where the legendary Richard Burton was born and later grew up, you know the Welsh weather can be more like the heart of Elizabeth Taylor, his tempestuous queen...

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What Do the Stars Foretell for Barack Obama?

(0) Comments | Posted September 8, 2012 | 4:54 AM

Hey, this is the year of the U.S. presidential election, a time when the pundits are busy predicting the future for all of us. All sorts of political analysts and political pundits get busy predicting the results of the elections and the future of the candidates. With...

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Should Obama Do an Invisible Bush Act at the DNC?

(5) Comments | Posted September 4, 2012 | 10:23 AM

Despite the gloss over Ann Romney tried to give the historic improvisation of Clint Eastwood, who tried to address and insult an invisible Barack Obama who had no way of defending himself, the Democrats will be eager to pull off something in return at the

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How the Politics of Corruption Will Ensure a Third Term for India's Singh

(7) Comments | Posted August 31, 2012 | 12:34 PM

Monumental ignorance of its politicians like Akin, Palin, Ryan and Romney, exposed through their statements, shape public opinion and the course of the presidential election in the U.S.
In India, the ignorance of the electorate and its inability to grasp complex issues, on which the political opposition try...

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Will Harvard Boy Chidambaram Make India The Promised Land Again for American Business?

(0) Comments | Posted August 10, 2012 | 1:09 PM

There are ways to test the worth of things. But the means of real tests are always harsh and bruising like the touchstone on which you rub your gold nugget to see if it is genuine. For Harvard, the proof of the pudding is when its alumni get...

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Is There Anything Mitt Romney Can Learn From India's Anna Hazare Movement?

(0) Comments | Posted August 4, 2012 | 3:45 PM

Anna Hazare has proved to be the modern Don Quixote of India. Your life is only as worthy as the cause you stand for and legitimate action by the government can wipe out your cause. That is what Anna Hazare movement eventually...

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