Soul Searcher writes about Atyrau in Kazakhstan when all his winter experience was limited to Madras!
Atyrau where I work is a small town in Kazakhstan which was one of the states of the erstwhile USSR before it got independence in 1991. It has very cold winters and very hot summers. The coldest I have seen [...]
Archive for January, 2009
NDTV: the loss of irony
Published by January 31st, 2009 in Blogging, Human Rights, Media and NDTV. 1 CommentA media house suing someone for exercising his freedom of speech- Kishore seems amused at the loss of irony:
Talk about corporate own-goals. Or worse, loss of irony. Blogger Chyetanya Kunte appears to have been coerced into making “an unconditional apology to Ms. Barkha Dutt, Managing Editor, English News, NDTV Limited and to NDTV Limited, for the [...]
Barkha Dutt Padh Legi!
Published by January 31st, 2009 in Blogging, Human Rights, Media and NDTV. 3 CommentsMad Momma voices what we all feel- we shall not be silenced:
After a long time I blog with a very heavy heart. We’ve spoken about mainstream media robbing images and ideas and plagiarising from blogs. But this takes the cake. Mainstream media targets a single blogger for his opinion of their reporting. This considering not [...]
‘Shoddy Intimidation’
Published by January 31st, 2009 in Blogging, Human Rights, Media and NDTV. 4 CommentsWill that make up for shoddy performance? NDTV, you’ve lost the plot.
Rahul is happy that his non-friend from college is taking on the enemy, finally:
Anyway, the main criticism that I saw everywhere was that your coverage of the movements of the police, army, commandos and others was aiding the enemy. So I was happy to [...]
NDTV, listen to the defiance
Published by January 30th, 2009 in Blogging, Human Rights, Media and NDTV. 19 CommentsWith one clueless stroke, you’ve reduced yourself to a mere big business, a bully. I guess that’s defamatory of big business. It actually displays more imagination than to ever sue current or potential customers. Never sue the people. If the Tatas or Ambanis or Birlas had forgotten that, ever, there wouldn’t be any Tatas or [...]
Elections ‘09 — at least two people support the BJP
Published by January 30th, 2009 in Democracy and India. 6 CommentsRajesh Jain declares his support for the BJP, and the reasons why:
We are India’s educated civil society. If we cannot act individually and as a team, then we forfeit the right to complain. Democracy comes with responsibilities and duties. It also comes with a generation having to make some sacrifices so the Tomorrow for our [...]
Nandita Mahadevan posted her cover version of a beautiful (and a tough-to-sing) Hindi song, Kesariya Balma from the movie Lekin. Listen and enjoy.
CKunte vs NDTV: In the matter of ’shoddy journalism’
Published by January 29th, 2009 in Blogging, India, Media and NDTV. 6 CommentsFollowing the controversy of blogger Chyetanya Kunte apologising to NDTV for his blog post, Vijayendra writes an open letter to NDTV:
You won’t achieve anything by getting one blogger to withdraw what he typed in the heat of anger. Just like the government of India wouldn’t have achieved anything by blocking one TV news channel.
You are [...]
Preserving Indian culture at the Mangalore pubs
Published by January 29th, 2009 in Culture, Democracy, Government, Human Rights, India, Law and order, Media, Patriarchy, Politics, Prejudice and Women. 8 CommentsA fanatic, they say, is someone who does what he thinks God would have done, if He had the details of the case. In this case, only if everyone knew how the civilization and culture accumulated over 5,000 years was being destroyed through “obscene dancing” in pubs.
Vishita titles her post “Shame on me and shame [...]
Among the most popular dishes in South India (and I daresay pretty popular here in the US as well), go find the recipe from Twisted Elegance along with the pics of them freshly made by his mom.
Suketu Mehta’s “Maximum City” is reviewed by Swayam:
The sheer proportions of the drudgery of the life of an average Mumbaikar, especially of the economically weaker ones, is so on your face, you’d be ashamed of your warm cocoon and your trifle quibbles from life and also surprised to know how people still continue to live [...]
Aks writes about the “wrath of his mummy”. His mischiefs and little foibles as a kid, plus all the threats his mother used to make (including taking him off school and opening a paan-shop) make a very endearing read:
Now, no kid wants to drink milk. My mother insisted that I should finish up my glass [...]
Tantrums get the stuff done
Published by January 27th, 2009 in Education, Humour and Personal. 0 CommentsReading this post, I could not but help remember the way we used to curse some of our teachers in school. Go find out how the Jinxed Pixie got her note signed from school:
For me, unfortunately, there are thousands of people who are baying for my blood…. Two among them being two teachers called the [...]
It seems a lot of ladies are opening up and letting us know what they want in their man. God bless the internet and blogging! Here’s something from the Femme Fatale blog:
Raka: what do you think,we girls want in our guy?
want as in desires and expectation and wishes ?
Richa: foremost presentable
Raka: he should take care [...]
Phoenix has been writing a short story by that name: “A beautiful stranger”. Here is the third part of the series:
Pushing open the sliding doors to the veranda, Noyona stood staring at the horizon with her coffee in the hand. She put her palms closer to the sides of the mug with the heat emitting [...]
So, what happens when you meet or see a celebrity in the middle of a road? Do you jump with joy, create a hoopla or do you just stand transfixed? Find out what Preeti did when she met Marc Robinson and Arjun Rampal (yes, THE men, face to face):
So there we were holding kaanch ka [...]
Rajesh Raman teamed up with K C Geetha to give us a musical treat on this Republic Day. Click here to listen to their collaborative work (in Malayalam language).
From his post:
The beautiful lyrics describes how gorgeous Mother India is, surrounded by the Himalayas & Oceans, blessed with its Natural beauty. ! It also conveys the [...]
TSJ Studio has posted the four musical themes which they have composed for a play named Final Solutions, written by Mahesh Dattani (of Morning Raaga and Dance Like a Man fame). Listen to all four tracks.
The cost of building Megacity Ahmedabad
Published by January 26th, 2009 in Democracy, History, Law and order, Politics and Religion. 0 CommentsAmidst all the hoopla for making Narendra Modi the next Indian PM (where interestingly, Preity Zinta is the latest addition), Girish Shahane uncovers the sbtle plans of bulldozing down some of Ahmedabad’s heritage monuments:
Along that road lie two of the 500 year-old mosques I have spoken of, including the Rani Sipri mosque, a small but [...]
No, not Sachin Tendulkar. Instead, we’re talking about the play by Vijay Tendulkar called “Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe”. Shanta thinks that he has not done justice to what he set out to achieve: to portray the cruelties of society on women:
When I first saw the play forty years ago, I remember thinking vaguely that Tendulkar [...]
Sanjay Dutt in politics?
Published by January 25th, 2009 in Democracy, India and Politics. 3 CommentsDolphin thinks he’s a man of many contradictions being added to the grand melting pot of Indian politics:
At a time when Indians couldn’t tolerate a moderate Shivraj Patil, a lazy Vilasrao Desmukh and equally ineffective RR Patil, Sanjay Dutt’s entry is a political joke. At a time when we’re hoping a better country (free of [...]
At the Topic192 blog, this is their vision statement:
I wonder if people from 192 countries across the Globe cooperate to write one blog.
Different people, culture, society, politics, products, service…
Only one person for One Country !
One Photo for One Story
Go ahead and read their latest post from Macedonia. There is someone from India already there, though.
Find out about how to make Methi Chicken and a lot of other yummy stuff at the Bon Appetit blog. It is a group blog and has a lot of cuisines detailed from all over the place, along with little tip-of-the-weeks like this one:
>> To remove the fat from soup or stew, drop a few [...]
Cigarette smoking ban actually increases health risks
Published by January 24th, 2009 in Business, Economy, Government and Health. 4 CommentsOr so says the Unpretentious Diva:
What if government increase hyper-taxes on tobacco, will it help?
Banning or restricting any thing never helps anybody, yet it increases black-marketing, it increases smuggling, and to counter all that, government will need a new force to control smuggling and black-marketing of Tobacco. In addition, black-marketing always increases consumption because it [...]
Boys, please become men. Here is a crash course in chivalry from Swats:
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE: Don’t ever say TU. It’s a majorrrrrrrrrrrr turn off. (I don’t think TU is cute and cool and friendly. I beg to differ.) TU is condescending and disrespectful. Whatever happened to TUM and/or AAP. I guess the best option is [...]
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