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By The Outsider at 05/24/2010 - 22:19
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There don't seem to be many credible accounts and demographic data of India and Pakistan after partition and it's associated mass migration was over, at least readily available ones on the web. Curious on the topic, the blog presents some digging into of research and news articles from that time to piece together some of the scattered information.
According to the 1941 census, the total population of unified India was 389.0 million. Muslim population was pegged at 94.5 million(24.3%). Hindu population was 270.2 million(69.5%).
The basis of partition was concentrated areas of Muslim population, primarily in North West India and East India. Out of 435 districts in India, there were 76 with Muslim majority population and contained around 60% of the total Muslim population of India.
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By The Outsider at 11/22/2009 - 03:53
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There is a concept in Cosmology used to measure distances to far, really far away objects like other galaxies. It goes by the name of the Cosmic distance ladder. There is constant debate in cricket, in fact all sports, about comparing modern day greats and achievements to the ones from the years gone by. It's a tough one in the absence of good video footage and possibly affected writings. I'll attempt to bring about an argument in this blog to look at the debate from a different perspective.
Measuring distances is a crucial aspect of Cosmology - for one of the basic questions that Cosmology aims to answer is how big is the universe? There is only a certain extent that regular physical measurements will help out.
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By The Outsider at 11/10/2009 - 18:07
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Sitting on the porch and smoking a cigarette as I watch boats drift by on the Hudson, the mind if sometime captured by old memories. Not that those memories have anything to do with the Hudson or a cigarette, but you know how the mind some time wanders aimlessly.....or do you......maybe it's just my mind. The trail would start from the ash falling on my hand in the breeze as I impetuously shake it, make itself through an incongruous chain, if there is such a thing, and end up in Lucknow.
I would be shadow batting on the roof of our ancestral home in temperatures rising upwards of 40 Celsius after having fooled Amma that I was taking my afternoon nap. There was still homework to do, but that was never too much of a problem. A couple of hours in the evening was usually good enough.
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By The Outsider at 08/06/2008 - 04:28
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The past few days have been very sad times for me as an Indian, a passport I still hold but a country I cannot identify with any longer. When will we as a nation realize, accept, and change all the malaise we find ourselves under? We've just had a stampede at one of our major Hindu temples which believe it or not killed 5 times as many people as the serial bomb blasts over two major cities. Has commercialization and capitalism become so strong that we cannot criticize this injustice being meted out on people who want to visit a temple at the end of a day, just as a few NRIs amongst us want to log on to this website to read my junk?
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By The Outsider at 07/13/2008 - 02:38
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It's always difficult to make a start - more so I guess to start a blog. What should the first entry be about? Will people be able to read it till completion? Will they bother coming back to read my blog again? There are just so many things that can be written on a blog - it's one of the most wonderful creations of the online world because it's not restricted by the number of words that you need to fit in a blog, nor the content which doesn't adhere to a predefined theme. The possibilities are countless and the freedom immense. Perhaps, that's the best and worst part about a blog. Without a theme it's difficult to make a start.
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