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The big news of the day isn't that Americans have shown that they are more intelligent than Trump thought by handing him a defeat in the Iowa primaries.. the big news is -as I hoped last night- that there could be a genuine political "revolution" taking place in America which could be great for the world!! The stats are mind-boggling. Hillary Clinton with all her political force is holding on to a mere 0.2% lead against Bernie Sanders -the self proclaimed socialist -as almost 99% of results get declared!! That's how close its gotten!! The latest update shows, "Sanders was doing extremely well among younger people. He was getting the support of 84 percent of those under 30 and 58 percent of those 30 to 45. Clinton was very strong among older people; she was getting the support of 58 percent of those 45 to 64 and 69 percent of those over 65. Sanders support came from liberal Democrats. Those who call themselves very liberal favored him over Clinton, 58 percent to 3...

  It's time you knew about Bernie Sanders! The election primaries start in the United States of America today with voting in Iowa, and will continue till mid June. While on the side of Republicans, we have the worst maniac possible -Donald Trump- leading all polls; from the Democrats it's Hillary Clinton. My heart however is stuck with the hope for a better world in the form of "Bernie Sanders" from the Democrats. He is still a shade behind Clinton in polls, but giving her a real run for the money! A self proclaimed socialist and anti Wall Street crusader, America has never been closer to electing a genuinely great leader in perhaps a hundred years. Let's hope the American youth, who are rallying strongly behind Sanders, come out in huge numbers today and throughout the four and a half months and make the impossible happen - make a socialist their candidate for the next President. The world sure can wait a few more years to get the first woman President in America...

  Pray for Chennai, Pray for Paris... The convenience of prayers and the irrationality of it! - Arindam Chaudhuri For days now on various Facebook profiles, WhatsApp groups I have been seeing good-intentioned display pictures. Pray for Paris. Pray for Chennai. If I would have written on it just the day after the Paris attacks or Chennai floods, many would have branded me inhuman. Plus as I said I believe these DPs are good-intentioned. But today let me share a few thoughts on this illogical concept of prayers the way I have written on gods and religion earlier. So that at least before praying for anyone or anything next time you at least know you are doing something very convenient and something totally irrational. Though the picture I have put above is self-explanatory, yet I urge you all to think a bit more.. I mean face it.. apart from sitting and doing nothing and making others feel that you are doing something and trying to give yourself a fraud sense of humanity, what else do...

By Arindam Chaudhuri, Terrorism in Paris shocked you but today's news of a man killing three in Colorado Springs planned parenthood clinic didn't shock you much? Have some patience and read this article till the end and you will believe in my article heading forever and realize why what happened today at Colorado Springs is as shocking an act of terrorism. And more importantly how from Paris to Colorado Springs it's the American Capitalism which has blood in its hands. You often hear of college shootouts in America and it seems to you 2/3 such happen each year, right? You often hear of some more mass shootings and think that about 12/15 happen every year, right? Wrong. Make a really wild guess. What did you do? You changed your figures from 2/3 to 6/7 and from 12/15 to 20/25 at the most. Well hear me out. In 2015 campus shootings in America have been 45 plus and the total of all mass shootings have been a whopping 320 plus!! And Christmas is still a month away!! How many yo...

The results of a major research on 15000 people came out the day before Diwali...done by the most trusted and respected Mayo Clinic. It had an interesting conclusion. It concluded that belly fat is twice as much riskier than the in any case 'high risk obesity'! So basically people who have belly fat are twice more at risk of death compared to those who are obese over all. That means if someone is over all fat (that is his BMI is high) but his WHR (waist to hip ratio) is fine, he is -despite being in high risk category- better off than someone whose whr is high but who otherwise doesn't look obese or is even thin! This is huge. It straight away establishes that obesity is dangerous but having a spare tyre around your waist more dangerous. The obvious reason being suggested is that having a big belly increases the amount of fat inside the abdomen (visceral fat). This may then cause inflammation to the vital organs stored inside the abdomen, which possibly makes people vulnera...

With the rise of ISIS , it's again the Jews who are the highest risk group in the world. Pleasure to share an article by the founder Director of IIPM, Dr. Malay Chaudhuri, wherein he shows how India can support the community - by offering them a safe abode - as India’s Civilizational Role in the midst of global war mongering! To Israel, with Love -Dr. Malay Chaudhuri My best friend in High School days in Rajshahi, where I spent my childhood, was Haider Kabir. In Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, my closest friend was Hossainoor Rehman and the man whom I used to admire most was Motin Zuberi. He was from UP, and later went on to become a professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University. In my days in Berlin School of Economics (Hochschule fuer Oeknomie, Berlin – Karlshorst) all the other members of my small seminar group (nine in all including me) were from Arabian lands – five of them were from Syria and one was from Lebanon and two were from Jordan. It also so happened that I o...

Pained, angered and saddened at the insanely inhuman attacks in Paris..... once more in the name of religion... The sad truth as I keep saying, is, as long as we have people believing in God - something for which there has been completely no evidence whatsoever in the 14 billion years of the existence of universe - and create religions around their completely baseless imaginary medieval ideas of gods, there will be killings in the name of religion. Humanity and I repeat humanity, should be our only religion (though I detest the word religion). And humanity needs no place of worship, no leader, no God, no religious text. It just needs love in your heart for your fellow human beings and a completely passionate belief that every human being is "born equal" irrespective of his color, economic status, nationality, religion and in the particular case of India, his caste. It's only when you want others to believe in something for which you have no evidence, that you need to kill...