Nalinikanth Josyabhatla is a techie and a passionate music lover. He loves composing songs and he made a music album in Telugu language with his newly found software. The songs are available in his blog to listen and comment. The first song itself has made my day. Go and listen to his album.
In April this [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Seshu Badrinath is organising the first chennai photoworkshop featuring three photographers who will talk on different aspects of photography.
Who Should Attend:
20 of you photo-enthusiasts who want to advance your exploration and experiences of the visual world
Where:
Chennai, India. Venue: TBD
When:
October 8, 2008, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please be on time as a professional courtesy to [...]
Dilip and son dine at what seems like an Eccentric Eatery:
A young woman in short hair and a pink t-shirt walks over. I cringe involuntarily — is this the attack waiter? She has a voice so soft I can barely hear her, but when I do hear her asking what we’d like to drink, I [...]
Mohib at Indian Muslims posts a collection of twenty interesting pictures which capture the essence of Ramadan this year, across the world: Definitely worth a visit.
Cuckoo has an interesting take on relationships and an active comment section going. Please read the end of the post ‘Update’ before you respond.
Staring at space I can only recall how blissful I was for two years when I was in love with T. In spite of belonging to different castes it looked as if [...]
As Orissa keeps burning, Kala Baaz gives us a detailed analytical look on the set of people who are the real victims of Hindutva vs. Evengelists wars - the Dalits of India.
For the BJP’s strategy to work, these Christian Missionaries are a threat. They offer money and lure people away from the planned Hindu homogenization [...]
Times of India Plagiarizes Again
Published by September 28th, 2008 in Media, Photography and Society. 4 CommentsTimes of India seems to be in regular habit plagiarizing. This time it is a photograph by Shrinidhi in their Chennai supplement.
I’d clicked this photo few months back at Marina beach and had uploaded it to my blog. Some users have referred to this image in some forum discussions also and incidently, [...]
Ranjini tells us about how women dread reaching the age of 31:
1. Oh… we all dread wrinkles…and 30+ is the age, you tend to get them
2. … the age itself is scary…aging starts at 31
3. 31… the age…. U need [...]
Adding to Shruthi’s earlier post here.
Abi has compiled some reactions, including the above, and agrees with another blogger that it’s ‘unfuckingbelievable’. Especially one session on occult.
As if dissing women in general and IIT alumnae in particular wasn’t enough, these guys have put together “a mystic trail” — right within the IIT-M campus — that will [...]
Giving losers more money to lose
Published by September 27th, 2008 in Business, Capitalism, Development, Economy, Globalisation, Government and Politics. 2 CommentsA.k.a. The US (Global?) Financial Crisis.
Professor Ali Mir of Wayne Paterson has a lucid “Current Crisis for Dummies”, posted by Amitava Kumar.
So, back to our story. Wasn’t everyone making money?
Until a certain point in time. But as usually happens with a bubble, the quid came calling for the quo. Subprime borrowers defaulted on their loans [...]
Emma is very angry. And I can see why.
Let’s get this straight okay - spouse as per this assorted group’s parlance means “wife”. No, men do not qualify. You see, they are the IIT alumni. You got to be kidding me - women and IIT alumni! Of course not. The only way a woman can [...]
‘The real terrorists’
Published by September 26th, 2008 in Human Rights, Justice, Politics, Prejudice, Religion and Secularism. 6 CommentsNusrat Abbasi posts some very disturbing pictures which remind us of the ‘glorious deeds’ of the ‘real terrorists’:
My mind tells me not to post these images here. But without seeing them many of us would not even consider giving a second thought to the horrors faced by Indian Muslims at the hands of Hindu terrorist [...]
Rama shares with us Ramzan ki raunaq in Kolkata. The pictures are very interesting:
Last Sunday, I was there, to bid farewell to my friend Hasnain who was leaving for the US on a Fulbright scholarship. It was late afternoon, and people were busy shopping for fruits and vegetables for the approaching iftaar (fast breaking). A [...]
Here is a man who seems to know all there is to know about watches and horology! Check out Pradipta Mohapatra’s blog.
Sinking Singur
Published by September 25th, 2008 in Activism, Development, Economy and Politics. 0 CommentsThe DCBA (Desi Confused by America) gives a quick run-down of the pullout of the Tatas from Singur:
Strangely it looks like over the last 2 weeks, more and more farmers are just collecting cheques from the state govt and giving up their land. Then there are many more who are trying to re-negotiate their land [...]
Cha-cha Nehru
Published by September 24th, 2008 in Capitalism, Development, Economy and Politics. 0 CommentsVipin at First Principles takes a new look at Jawaharlal Nehru and Amartya Sen:
Jawahar was a tyrant! His police would imprison you for trading with fellow human beings. His temples of modern India (dams) rooted millions of homes, many of these people still havn’t received any compensation. He taxed you like mad, and the money [...]
Mortgage crisis, leverage, loan and investment portfolio mismatch: probably what you’ve been hearing all along about the bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers. Confused? Vikas Panditrao explains the crisis brewing in a language that you and I can understand:
An Investment bank uses its own money to lend other and invest. Banks like Lehman, buy mortgage loans [...]
Anumita visited Thailand recently and has posted a lovely set of pics on her blog:
Raj has two very interesting posts with stories about people trying to find their roots - here and here.
Svairini explains how tradition weighs down on women in Iyengardom:
This “progressive” outlook is what makes moms (all of them) I meet say, its ok, you girls (unmarried women like me), are free to choose your guy - just ensure they are Brahmin, Tamil, working in US/UK, earning a lot, are educated like you. Ha! [...]
Pragmatic suggests the armed services need to do more to deal with unequal treatment of women in the services:
Many service officers and veterans contend that the sexual harassment is an unfair tool, like the Dowry law, that can be misused by women officers to get even with senior officers. However they forget that similar situations [...]
Anil shares pictures from a recent trip to McLeodganj.
“There is no harm in the home minister staying clean and tidy”
Published by September 21st, 2008 in India. 0 CommentsIf the prime minister has no option but to keep an incompetent Patil in the high office just because he is a favourite courtier of the 10, Janpath, then at least he should have got him some able deputies who could have kept his shortcomings under wraps and delivered results. But what kind of people [...]
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