Hangman in Haskell Rule of Hangman You play this game with a man called Hangman. The job of hangman is to kill you. Hangman is fair and have some rules. He is abided by these rules. Hangman writes down a secret word. Let the word is W and its length is n. He asks you …
In 2010, Guardian published an article written by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr. David Kessler. This article is no longer on Guardian since their copyright on it has expired. A simple googling will still reveal some other sources. SOME EXCERPTS: THE LIE For years I wondered why I was fat. I lost weight, …
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It took a man like Sainath to break the story of paid news in public in the newspaper The Hindu. PCI (Press council of India) made a committee to look into the matter of paid news which came down heavily on ‘the big guys’. The report they submitted named the names which the ‘big guys’ …
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‘What exactly is a genius’ is a very hard question to answer. Hard still is answering ‘who is perceived to be a genius’.[[ To do : The idea of natural inequality ]] We often see a ‘genius’ as a gifted person, endowed by nature her supreme gift – intelligence. Many, however, believe that ‘practise makes …
It has been said that ‘behind every great thinker lies a lesser begin who shall translate, collate, annotate or otherwise facilitate his work.’ So James Boswell followed Dr. Johnson around the pubs of London, first ‘committing to memory, and thereafter to print, every word uttered in cups’. Ernest Jones and Strachey assumed the job of …
Statement Define a function isPrime which accepts a number n, and returns True if n is prime and False otherwise. The easiest way to test the primality of a number is to test whether it has any factor. This is usally done by dividing the given number by the smallest prime number i.e. 2 first. …
How little space is given to poverty, labour and agriculture reporting in Indian media is no secret. This week EPW edition has published a study high-lightening percentage of new-items in Hindi-English media about rural area. This study says that ‘.. India’s highest circulated English and Hindi dailies finds that they devote only a minuscule proportion …
…For five years, I gave the shortlisted candidates for our M.Tech (IT) entrance a short second test. In one of the questions, I would ask them to write something in English about their family, then rewrite the same thing in their mother-tongue or in any other Indian language they knew. Invariably, people who wrote bad …
In media, especially Western, there has been a lot of talk about gender-discrimination in India. Some report claims that India is one of the most dangerous place for women to live due to various reasons. These reasons, both prominent and sundry – although visible in almost every sphere of public life – manifest themselves in …