Recommended Websites

[NOV]

Pls use this this thread to recommend a site that you found interesting. Don't forget to also mention why you found it interesting!

[NOV]

Most parents would be able to identify with the pain mentioned here:

http://www.lovethissite.com/cry/

[blahblah]

I always go to www.nytimes.com ,specially for the archives.There is a chance for you to see the front page of newyork times of any day since 1851.

And why?I want see how they have reported some of the major events in history.Forgot to tell you,I just read that the then Soviet Ambassedor wept when he filed past the body of Nehru.Check it out.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/gene...7.html#article

[Roshan]

Hi blahblah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How are you??????????? Great to see you!! It's been long time na?

[blahblah]

Uhm!!!!!!!!!!

A company takeover,little glances watching your every move, eyes that penetrate your mind,ambitions,responsibilities and that old burden of 'proving oneself'.............

What else can keep me away from the hub?

[Roshan]

Uhm!!!!!!!!!!

A company takeover,little glances watching your every move, eyes that penetrate your mind,ambitions,responsibilities and that old burden of 'proving oneself'.............

What else can keep me away from the hub?

What is this new Avatar? Any interesting reason for that?

[Anoushka]

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/topstories.asp

This site has the most viewed, printed or forwarded news stories by the year for the past three years... interesting

[malsi]

www.indiaparenting.com ..you get links to many good sites..like grooming..hse decoration..relationships...cooking..etc etc

[gaddeswarup]

This is only a partial reply. Fot the last few years, I have been feeling that it is difficult to trust completely main stream media and started looking at 'independent' sites. Bias of the media is not new. I read long ago that the British government paid 500 pounds to reuters in the 19th century for favourable reporting. Around 1940 New York Times was neutral when Bertrand Russell was not allowed to teach in the City University of New York, I think. There ia a write up about it in one edition of "Why I am not a Christian" by Russell. Anyway, even with 'independent' sites you feel that they have some orientation and I keep shifting to new sites. Some I see off and on are:
http://www.nationinstitute.org/
http://www.indiatogether.org/
http://www.motherjones.com/
http://www.atimes.com/
http://www.tomdispatch.com/
http://www.truthout.org/
http://www.opendemocracy.net/home/index.jsp
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
http://www.monbiot.com/
Arthur C. Clarke recently recommended blogs and wikipedia:
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp...C+Clarke&sid=1
There are a couple of articles in New York Review of Books:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18516
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18555
I have not really started looking at blogs yet except:
http://delong.typepad.com/
http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Eamsp/blog.html
There is a list of Indian blogs at:
http://indiauncut.blogspot.com/2005/...a-is-open.html
For economic matters, I have been looking at:
Brad DeLong's site:
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/
and more recently Jeffrey Sachs'.
As I said before, the list keeps changing depend on what problem bothers me at the moment. I would like to know about interesting sites for news and economic matters.
swarup

[gaddeswarup]

There is a request in a Telugu site for information about dictionaries of technical terms in vernacular languages, particularly Dravidian languages. I think that there is some information in:
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/dravidian.html
http://www.languageinindia.com/index.html
I f you know of any other sites or books, please let me know.
swarup