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A Conversation with the Indian Rail Minister

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25th Feb' 2016, Thursday The budget session started on 23rd Feb, and each day has been every interesting since then. Some key highlights so far: 1. Mrs. Smriti Irani , Ministry of Human Resource Development (~ Education Minister) has made a terrific speech, or should I put it the other way... I have always considered her to be a good orator and she just proved it again. If someone is into politics, one has to be a master of good command over speech. Why you may ask, it helps you not only get you votes, but also through the power words, you are able to justify your action each time the parliament is in session. In the following video, she takes good 40-45 minutes to express what she has been going through for the past couple of months, and clarifies, in details, what has been going on in the universities across the country w.r.t student suicide at Hyderabad and then the JNU issue. But, this reminds me that she has been into acting, where she played a typical Indian Bahu ...

How to Detect a Lie

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There are theories and practical experimentation that has been performed as a part of evolution of science & psychology to give various arguments and reasons of humans lying. But is saying the truth always is safest ? That's something you must ponder over. It starts from the very beginning when we were small kids. As kids, we are part of learning by doing or seeing someone do that we explore other parts of human behavior – which is to hide the reality and project a disguised and fake picture/story to others. Since most of our interactions are with siblings and parents at home or friends at school, we experiment these with them. My father has this out-of-the-world way to detect if any of my brother or I was lying. He takes his fingers and holds our ears such that the fingers touch the outer edges of the ears. See the image for illustration. About this method, he believed that when a person is lying, there are changes in temperature of our body. Since ...