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People in my country have the compulsive need to complicate certain things. I am making this general comment based on the names(appellations if you will) given to two of our finest institutions. While our friendly neighbors called their cricket governing body "Pakistan Cricket Board" and the Australians simply called theirs "Cricket Australia"  we Indians would have nothing less  flamboyant than the "Board Of Control Of Cricket in India aka THE BCCI".(It is disrespectful to leave out the "THE"). More evidence to support the above seemingly uninformed declaration ,is provided for  by none other than the "Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation"(IRCTC) , who are responsible , among other things , for providing a hassle free environment to reserve your seat one of Indian Railways' 10000 trains (Wikipedia can attest that) . IRCTC has a website which has been unintentionally equipped (or so i suppose)with artificial intelligen...