There Are More Than A Billion Indians
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 Posted in India, USA | No Comments »Some of them are bound to be alike. Meanwhile George Bush declares Nelson Mandela dead killed by none other than Saddam Hussein. I heard somebody say, 'Where's Mandela? Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas. Long live Mandelas.
Silence Is Not Secular
Saturday, August 11th, 2007 Posted in India, Politics | 2 Comments »Barkha Dutt writes a fine piece in Hindustan Times on the recent assault of Taslima Nasreen titled The Secular Silence. She writes: As far as I’m concerned, Qureshi or Akbaruddin Owaisi (the Hyderabad MLA who led the attack on Taslima) are ...
Selective Amnesia
Saturday, August 11th, 2007 Posted in India, Politics | No Comments »Dilip wonders why Manohar Joshi has suddenly lost track of his statements regarding Srikrishna Commission Report. Joshi is also on the record saying that he would prefer to resign than take any action against Bal Thackeray or Shiv Sainiks. Meanwhile, ...
WTF Moment Of The Week: Urinification
Friday, April 20th, 2007 Posted in India, Society, WTF Moment | No Comments »WTF indeed. Teachers of a primary school in Bhandara district of Maharshtra sprinkled cow's urine in the school premises and on students They did this because the previous headmistress was a Dalit and they wanted to purify the school and the children ...
Weekly Bollywood: Dilli
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 Posted in India, Movies, Music | No Comments »garche hai in dinoN mulk-e-dakan meN qadr-e-suKhan kaun jaaye "Zauq" par dillii kii galiiyaaN chhoR kar Even though poetry is patronized in Deccan (Hyderabad) these days Still who would want to leave the lanes of Delhi, Zauq? Thanks to Neha I found this catchy ...
Thank You Sri Lanka!
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 Posted in India, Sports | No Comments »Next Day After Exams + Do Or Die Contest For India = Did I Say Awesome? Sri Lanka has just made things easier for India. By defeating Bangladesh by a huge margin of 198 runs, they have relegated Bangladeshi net runrate ...
Good Luck India!
Monday, March 19th, 2007 Posted in India, Sports | No Comments »Down - Out = Team India So much has already been written on India's defeat to Bangladesh. I just want to wish all the best to Team India for their game against Bermuda tomorrow and then against Sri Lanka on Friday. ...
WTF Moment Of The Week: Maulana Tauqeer Raza
Thursday, March 15th, 2007 Posted in India, Politics, WTF Moment | 2 Comments »Religious Leaders + Votebank Politics + Zero Perspective = Disaster IMHO there is just one good solution for everyone demanding head of Taslima Nasreen: force them to read all her crappy books. No, seriously. Noting that Nasreen had made "derogatory references against ...
Party With A Helluva Difference
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 Posted in India, Politics | No Comments »Dynastic Policitics + BJP = No Surprise It is no surprise that there is just one Muslim in the list of 316 BJP candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections. No serious rapprochement between Indian Muslims and BJP is possible till ...
New Website For Hindustan Times
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 Posted in India | 3 Comments »Big Change + Zilch Information = WTF One of the news websites I frequent regularly is that of Hindustan Times. They had the best domain name they could have asked for: hindustantimes.com. Today I noticed that they have switched to ...
