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Acronyms are words formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as they are spelled, not as separate letters. Examples include:   acronym full form Aids acquired immune deficiency syndrome NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization SIM (card) subscriber identification module   ·          Most acronyms can be written as capital letters or with only an initial capital letter.   ·          Some acronyms are so established that they are now 'normal' words, generally used without conscious awareness of their original full form.   These words should be written in lower-case letters.   Examples include:   laser light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation radar radio detection and ranging quango qu...

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -Helen Keller, author and lecturer (1880-1968)  

Dear Anna, I write this to you neither as a fawning cheerleader nor a cynical journalist, but rather as a proud Indian like you. Let me applaud you at the very outset for having brought the issue of corruption to the national centrestage. You have worked tirelessly for more than two decades in exposing corruption in Maharashtra but Ralegan Siddhi is a long way from Delhi which is perhaps why television channels hadn't featured your contribution prominently till now. An opinion poll we did just a month ago suggested that more people had heard of yoga guru Baba Ramdev than a tireless fakir-like crusader from a Western Maharashtra village. All that has now changed. Your latest fast has made you a household name. You've brought the mighty Indian state to its knees. You've encouraged millions of anonymous Indians to come out on the streets and get a voice. You've exposed a political class, suffering from a grave moral crisis, to the wider world. You've empowered th...