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- Archives: October 2009
- Poessay: Rosary 33 - Thanksgiving II
life is a dervish / whirling around love / hatred, tears and laughter
- A Panacea For Evil Looks
Now we know why uncle Bhushan can't perform in spite of four marriages.
- Allen Mendonca - Gone Too Soon, Bangalore Will Miss You
Maintaining a steadfast belief in people's goodness and dedication to cultivating this goodness in oneself and others epitomizes what Allen lived by.
- Movie Review: Wake Up, Sid
There's something about Wake Up, Sid which makes it seem like a recipe. No, not for disaster.
- The Ways of the Mahatma
His lifestyle & principles seem more relevant and real, and an appropriate method to counter the madness that has taken over the world.
- To Travel or Not To Travel
After six months of living in this city, in this house, it all seemed just like the day we first moved in.
- Insufficient Courts in India
In India, the pendency of cases with the judicial system is a joke.
- Climate Change App For the iPhone
The app allows visitors to the Swiss Alps to visualize change in glacier levels
- Travel Review: Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh
Would the painters would have ever thought that their pastime would become a peep into their lives and times for the generations to follow?
- Motherhood - The Great Indian Relationship
We're both mass products of a great social machinery that churns out only one relationship between a man and a woman - motherhood.
- Book Review: The Poison Tree - Planted and Grown in Egypt
A Single Independent Egyptian Woman's take on Love and Relationships.
- Mont Blanc Mahatma
A culture that can sell anything!
- There Are No Happily Ever Afters
We fight with our siblings, our friends and even our parents so isn't it natural that we would bicker with our spouses as well?
- Technology in Education
How does this software impact/ redefine the role of a teacher-student interaction?
- Nobel Peace Prize 2009: Obama Gets What?
Gandhi did not get it. Obama did. What were the Nobel Committee memebers smoking?
- What Have the IITs Done For India?
Tell me one major thing that has come out of IITs that has helped India at the grassroots.
- President Barack Obama Awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Another question that lingers in my mind when I hear of the Nobel peace prize is why did Mahatma Gandhi never receive one?
- Indian Cities Today: Cultural Desert of Tomorrow?
Indian cities are changing rapidly, but how does this bode for the future?
- Maharashtra Elections: Final Forecast
The Congress-NCP regime is highly likely to return to power albeit in alliance with other parties.
- Mum(bai)'s The Word !
Creativity in any form cannot be manipulated to the whims and fancies of the political class. It is a free art form, and anyone should
- The Song of the Infidel
Looking for Divinity in an Age of one night stands
- Banks To Charge For ATM Access For Other Bank Customers
From October 15, a customer can take out a maximum of Rs 10,000 per withdrawal from ATMs not owned by the bank in which he
- Will Manmohan Get An Economic Nobel?
We are happy this way; this Nobel is quite inconsistent with Eastern values
- Nawwab and I: Thanksgiving 2009
t: How do you deal with these blood thirsty Talibans? N: Listen to them. Treat them as jilted lovers.
- Maharashtra Elections: Go away Congress
Post 26/11, I slapped their shameless faces with the push of a button!
- Are Reservations Justified?
Reservations sharpen caste distinctions in the short term. Will it bring prosperity and make matters better in the long term?
- Sand Art
Muggulu (telugu) Kolam (Tamil) and Rangoli (hindi)
- The Afghanistan Conundrum
Gen. Stanley McChrystal (military commander of the US forces in Afghanistan) is reported to be seeking a troop increase of...
- Travel Review: Bhojpur
What is left in Bhojpur now to see is an unfinished but practicing Shiva temple in dark stone, known as Bhojeshwara temple.
- A Moral Dilemma: Being Politically Correct & Not A Tease
Considering that we don’t have common friends or interests, am I not willing to meet her only to prove that I’m open-minded about homosexuality?
- Fiction: The Letter of the Law
Pretty Indian girls were swarming all over the area and dancing along with Kasab and other terrorists.
- Poetry: Where Do You Stand?
Here I stand, Upon this pyre My house, as fire smolders out From our actions Of dishonesty and indifference
- Afghanistan: What Next?
If the Americans leave, can the ISI and the Taliban turn the clock back?
- Poetry: Yellow Sky - Poems on Mdantsane
Mdantsane is the second biggest township after Soweto, South Africa. This watercolor is of Unit 3 of Mdantsane.
- Rio de Janeiro,2016 - Delhi-2020?
Former president Kalam wrote a book India 2020 calling India to modernise itself by 2020. That could be the time announce to the world by
- Should Prostitution Be Legalised?
All problems solved, legalise prostitution and we have a perfectly just and fair society. Is it so?
- Twitter and Relationships
All about relationships in twitter...
- Indian Cricket - The Champions League & The Australia Series
I never believed that this was a good idea and lacks of crowds have proved it. T
- Do Festivals Mean Anything Any More?
I feel that with the changing times, we should revamp the way in which the festivals are celebrated
- That Coming of Age Thing
Is it all it's cut out to be?
- Brand Confusion in Indian Pharma
These brands are akin to the pirated books we get on the foot-path; it has everything other than the rewards reaching the author
- Google - Weaving a Worldwide Web
Clearly, Google has in myriad ways, taken on the likes of Microsoft and Apple, quietly from just being a search engine giant.
- Ideart: Kathakali
I was fascinated by the plethora of colours on the Kathakali costume. This is my tribute to this grand art.
- Fiction: The Cry Of The Pecker
He was a horny 60 year old bastard lusting after a 36 year old woman.
- poetry: song of rapture
tomorrow is another day and / i promise to be myself
- Poetry: The Explosion
Every day I die, Every day I am born Amidst all this terror and turmoil
- Mumbaikar Lose As MNS Wins
What happened to the not so intellectually backward class of Mumbai? Those who voted MNS to power how are they going to justify it?
- Chinese Checkers
India has always been an out-of-touch, moralizing country saddled with the morality of Gandhi and the idealisations of Nehru.
- PC Game Review: Plants Vs. Zombies
The zombies are a quirky lot from newspaper reading zombies to cheerleaders and bucket headed janitors
- Champions League: The Caribbean Flair
How T&T defied common spectator's expectation and reached the finals of champions league
- Hygiene Hypothesis
This is the story of every germophobe.
- Cricket - How Many LOIs Do we Need?
Do we see the end of 50-50 or is it going to coexist with Twenty20?
- Megalomaniacs Abound In Bigg Boss Season 3
There is a layer of unreal greasiness to the show that oils our voyeuristic judgemental streak.
- Those Were The Days - The Immortal Song
Sung in nearly every international language, this song remains immortal, a part of a slice of our life predominantly as exciting as its memory.
- Memories of Medinapur
Medinapur means a lot to me. I grew up hearing tales about Medinapur
- The Wall Project: Boycott Aladin, Canvas, Gair & London Dreams For Boorish Publicity
Boycott the movies Aladin, Canvas, Gair and London Dreams, whose posters vandalize a community drive.
- Marital Breakdowns and Children - Fugitive NRI Woman & Child Detained
A woman, who is accused of parental kidnapping of her US Citizen child to India is detained by CBI as per directive of Supreme Court
- Maoists Take Rajdhani Drivers Hostage in India
The Maoists have reportedly set demands for the release of key leaders of the PCPA as a precondition to set the train drivers free.
- Bomb Blasts in Peshawar as Hillary Clinton Visits Pakistan
These demons of their own design, as it were, have metastasized beyond recognition.
- poetry: . the sun is out
the sun is out / what is that supposed to mean?
- 10 Secrets To Blogging Every Day
Write freely, write for yourself (not always for your readers or entertainment value), and write what you are most familiar with.
- Husband Killed by in-laws in Honor Killing
Wife manages to get free, and reveals the truth (otherwise, no story)
- Running With the Hare and Hunting With the Hounds
How many people in 1980 ever thought that the Berlin wall would come down one day?
- Book Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
Even Ronson mentions that he felt like a conspiracy nut asking certain queries about subliminal messages, torture using music etc.
- Nawwab and I: Teflon Hilary
She took their darts. Deflected most. Smiled a lot.
- Movie Review: Aladin
To sum it up, it is a squandered opportunity.
- Nationalization of Indian Banks and the Financial Crisis
Stay away from centralization. Let there be diversity. That is what protects us.
- Cricket: Five World Cups In Last Three Years
There have been five so called world cups in last three years in cricket. The common spectator is just fed up with this overfeeding.
- Book Review: A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux
Theroux returns to India and solves a murder mystery in Calcutta!
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