Suruchi writes about a midnight trek she went on and posts some awesome pictures.
© Suruchi
The above picture made it to the explore page of Flickr! Flickrzens will understand what that means and will definitely go ‘Wow’!
Though I was also on this trek (visit my blog for my version of the tale), I have nothing [...]
A very touching story, beautifully narrated by Scarlett.
The charm of childhood and perhaps teenage to some extent is that you do not fully comprehend the intricacies and the complexities of the journey that lies ahead. Eternity isn’t a reality when you are a child; it is a mere concept of a time far away, a [...]
[ This is Essay # 21 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Reality Shows
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Pradip Somasundaran
People have started referring to me as the first reality show winner since the success of reality shows here in Kerala. Well in a way that’s true as there was more reality to the program that I won [...]
Space Bar sees Taare Zameen Par from two different perspectives. Of an adult’s and a child’s.
After the interval, when Nikumbh helps to identify Ishan as dyslexic, it seems like a cheat to an adult because it fails to answer the question of what one is to do with children who are not dyslexic but in [...]
An exception worth making. This link has nothing to do with India and the blogger isn’t Indian either. But Warren Buffett has many admirers in India, from soon-to-be investors to market veterans. With the Sensex and Nifty now almost household names, it’s always good to get gyaan from the Oracle of Omaha.
Blogger Dang Le provides [...]
Although a bit outdated, the two videos on Hawkeye’s blog post have redefined choreography for me twice over.
If people have seen a better conceptualization and execution of a song to a music video than this - then they must be lying. Sam Anderson, the star of the video is my vote for the next PM [...]
Kamini traveled to Angkor Vat and has written a series of posts on her experiences, along with some lovely pics:
Deep in the Cambodian jungles lie some of the world’s most astonishingly beautiful temple ruins. Built between the 9th and 15th centuries, during the years of the Khmer Empire, they are mind-boggling in their sheer exquisiteness, [...]
[ This is Essay # 20 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
The Growth ‘Miracle’
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Shromon Das
‘Growth’ is an issue that gains importance in almost any context; firms worrying about business growth, teenagers worrying about how tall they can grow, and of course, economists worrying about economic growth. One of the most fascinating case [...]
On the Un Official IPL blog, this post claims that controversies surrounding the IPL are inevitable:
The tournament hasn’t even started and there is talk of corruption charges in the Parliament? Aside from the obvious question that why is the Parliament discussing cricket tournaments in it’s precious time (instead of doing more useful things like solving [...]
Finally at around 4 A.M. early morning, the train reaches, Thrissur a town in the coastal state of Kerala. From the station, I ply on a local bus to reach another small town Chalakudy. The early morning freshness, and the luxuriant tropical scenery which unfolds as the bus speeds towards the destination, affords me perpetual [...]
“It is quite admirable to see how the author managed to squeeze in almost all of the notable small tales that are linked to the main novel. She also does an admirable job in keeping true to the theme of biography. If an event occurred without Draupadi’s presence, she’d raconte it to us in retrospect [...]
So Sudipta went ahead and did just that: read a Mills & Boon novel:
And all my enthusiasm about the book vanished within 20-30 pages of the book I had smuggled out. There was this caretaker guy of some god-forsaken house who went to cut wood in a nearby forest. And here was this daughter of [...]
Kamla Bhatt says Indians seem to be blissfully unaware of the recession in the U.S., and the possible impact on India:
Of course, we know about the ones that we read in the media, but what about the layoffs that go unreported? For over a year now I have been tracking the housing market in [...]
VB Rawat writes on the UPA’s flagship package for rural India, the NREGS, that seems to be floundering, as in this UP village.
Meanwhile, Rupchandrapur people are wondering whether they will be able to get their total amount or not. If for 14 days of work, an individual get Rs 400/- as per calculation of the [...]
Unable to defend himself from a Singaporean hotelier’s comments, Swaroop seeks out answers at Churumuri. Illustrating with real examples, he rakes up enormous dirt on a gamut of issues.
Education. Immigration. Public Safety. Harassment. Rowdyism and brawn. Health services. Bribery. Brain drain.
He concludes his comparison of India to Singapore (unthinkable by size, but still) with an interesting analogy to claims [...]
Bombay Addict is talking about ‘old-fashioned laugh-out-loud. Not a smile, snicker, or heh, but a hearty laugh’. Here’s some of what made him LOL:
The earliest stuff made me LOL were all those TV serials mentioned above. I loved them for the simple, situational comedy of everyday life. In movies, “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro” and “Chashme [...]
Rohit reacts to an article in Economic and Political Weekly:
One of the constant themes of public debate in India is to link the post 1991 reforms to problems faced by the Indian society. According to this intellectually lazy line of thinking, capitalism is responsible for all of India’s social and economic challenges. That despite reforms, [...]
[ This is Essay # 19 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
A Valentine to the City
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Sharanya Manivannan
Sometimes, I hate this city. I don’t deny that. There is so much to hate here. It is merciless. A crude, cruel, unforgiving bitch of a city. The meanness of its people. Sycophancy, moral (dis)order, parochialism [...]
Mansi recommends a website that brings together entrepreneurs, business owners and investors.
Rajat Gupta pays his tribute to Sherlock Holmes:
That is the strength of observation and deduction. Holmes methodology as all the fans of the character will know were based on scientific analysis ,observation and deduction . Just by looking at the soil of the shoe of the person he could tell about the place from where [...]
For all of you who’re missing Mumbai, or even if you live there, go and take a look at Salma’s albums here: http://salmamirza.info/gallery
I promise it will be worth every thousand words I could say further. Somehow I could smell the vadapav :)
Doubletake, Doublethink discusses the entry of romance novels into her life, particularly the figure of the Georgette Heyer man:
The Georgette Heyer Man (GHM for short) is a tall, loose-limbed, cynic with unruly hair and quite unremarkable features except for a smile that transforms his face. And yes, the eyes. Usually a queer light grey, very [...]
Raval makes a call for Purna Swaraj on the present state of affairs,
We need the independence that the protagonists of our freedom struggle left for us. It is our right and the time has come to stand up to claim it, to stand up for our beliefs, to stand up for what we believe [...]
Indiatime expresses concern at how Sanskrit has been discarded in India.
Although most Indians speak at least 2 languages, and many speak more than 3 or 4 fairly fluently, India has still managed to lose its most precious language, the language that was the origin of most of the Indian languages, and the language that Hinduism’s [...]
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