Virtual private server or VPS is a server hosting arrangement ideal for small and medium enterprises as it helps them run and manage their server efficiently but at just a fraction of the cost of the more advanced dedicated server. VPS hosting system is hosted on the same physical computer but functions as a separate […]
Why Settle for Real Estate When There Are Colored Diamonds to Buy?
The recent auctioning of the unique Pink Star diamond for a cool $71.2 million underscored a hard-to-miss point with investors around the globe: Why dabble in real estate when there are fancy colored diamonds to buy, and with less market volatility? Not all colored diamonds, of course, are in the class of the Sotheby’s-auctioned gem. […]
Great Hospitality from Here and There
Traveling around the world, the face and meaning of hospitality changes with every crossed border. Just when you’re still reveling in the royal treatment from a Greek family, you get brought down to earth by a rude Parisian. Let’s focus on the good ones here, though. Georgia I read from a friend, Shannon, who had […]
“Wu: going there” by Phyllis Watt
One might call Phyllis Socratic, because she proceeds by questioning, but hers are not Socratic questions. They’re more like questions one asks oneself, while making split pea soup: “the fabric goes on a journey now held by two women” [from “Unfinished Work”] Come to think of it, the author’s name is a question – though […]
Case For Studying Sanskrit Makes Itself, And There Is No Need To Invoke Higher Spiritual Incentives: Vice President
Gives Away ICCR World Sanskrit Award New Delhi (PIB-GR-TYP-BIN): The Vice President of India, Mr. M. Hamid Ansari has said that the case for studying Sanskrit makes itself, and there is no need at all to invoke higher spiritual incentives in order to justify this. He was addressing the gathering after giving away the World […]
Why Is Theresa May’s Grammar School Policy So Unpopular?
In one of her first major decisions as Prime Minister after the resignation of David Cameron, Theresa May ended decades of political consensus in the education policy by choosing to end the ban on the creation of new grammar schools in the UK. Immediately her decision was met with intense criticism from both the opposition […]