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  Hello and welcome to the first edition of The Weekly Vine: a brand-new newsletter from The Times of India. The newsletter’s raison d’être is simple. It will help you sound smarter and more informed in just five minutes and five seconds (5:05). Sign up here:  Not convinced? Let us  Shashi Tharoorify it for you : Unless one wants to be stuck in Plato’s Cave of ignorance like a troglodyte, one must read this sesquipedalian sequence of sentences whose language might be deemed ostentatious but that will astonish with your perspicacity. Let no one accuse you of being a snollygoster, and like, read and subscribe. This week we look at some of the most important happenings including Russia-India bonhomie, the Left’s emergence in European elections, Gautam Gambhir’s elevation as Team India coach and the Hawk Tuah Girl Phenomenon. 1) From Russia With Love India and Russia go way back, a love relationship  forged and fused by Raj Kapoor , in which the two nations see...

  Early blogs were simply manually updated components of common Websites. In 1995, the "Online Diary" on the   Ty, Inc.   Web site was produced and updated manually before any blogging programs were available. Posts were made to appear in reverse chronological order by manually updating text-based   HTML   code using   FTP   software in real time several times a day. To users, this offered the appearance of a live diary that contained multiple new entries per day. At the beginning of each new day, new diary entries were manually coded into a new HTML file, and at the start of each month, diary entries were archived into their own folder, which contained a separate HTML page for every day of the month. Then, menus that contained links to the most recent diary entry were updated manually throughout the site. This text-based method of organizing thousands of files served as a springboard to define future blogging styles that were captured by blogging soft...