Fly, You Fools have a comic take on the Oktatabyeye and the Tata controversy.
Our earlier post on the same issue here.
Archive for August, 2009
Shahbano Aliani’s article is enlightening.
It appears that caste is the elephant in the room. Everyone knows its there, but no one wants to talk about it, let alone address. As Haris Gazdar puts it, “The public silencing on caste contrasts with an obsession with it in private dealings and transactions.”
The Pakistani caste system has developed [...]
Pictures from a Rainy Day
Published by August 31st, 2009 in Photoblog, Photography and South Asia. 0 CommentsAnil captures a rainy day through his pictures in Dhaka. I explored a lot of his other pictures too.
Ecstatic I felt mostly but also there was a doubt lurking somewhere at the back of my mind about our descent the same day. When it rains it pours and so it did! Mist covered everything around and visibility reduced badly. Somewhere on our way down the peak, we missed the trail (as in there [...]
Tata Sons Objects to the use of Tata in Oktatabyebye.com
Published by August 29th, 2009 in Blogging, Business and Travel. 3 CommentsPartha from Oktatabyebye.com (which is a travel portal) writes-
Very recently, TATA Sons filed a case against us (oktatabyebye.com) in infringement of their TATA name (as our domain name contains the ‘TATA’ word!). Tata Sons has contended that it is confusingly similar to its ‘Tata’ brand and the travel portal runner has no rights or legitimate [...]
While attending the final rounds of an interview of a multinational organization, Neeraj happens to visit the restroom there. Standing next to a few of his prospective colleagues he does a peer errr… pee-er review.
The ‘Curious’ kind is much interested on how their neighbors do it. Try to peek from the wall and enjoys the [...]
Khoya (खोया) or thickened milk is mainly used for Indian sweet dishes. I had never heard of khoye ke kofte. Sounds delicious. Here is the recipe in Hindi.
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That is what Guru calls it and that is what he has done.
Honestly, I myself would never have fallen into this (death) trap. What I termed A stupidity upon that time was Once in a Life Thing …
The start of the event (9pm in the evening) must have been etched in every participants’ memory [...]
Driving to Jalori Pass and Shringi Vatika
Published by August 26th, 2009 in India and Travel. 0 CommentsAnup takes his car to a lot of places among which Jalori Pass is one. Beautiful photographs of beautiful places.
If you want to enjoy children’s poems in Hindi, here is a blog full of them. Name is Baal-man (बाल मन ) and I am sure the poems will make you smile. The latest being a chit-chat between famous pair of cat & mouse.
बिल्ली मौसी चलीं बनारस, लेकर झोला–डंडा। गंगा–तट पर मिला उन्हें तब मोटा चूहा पंडा। चूहा बोला– बिल्ली मौसी, चलो करा दूं पूजा। मुझ–सा पंडा, यहाँ घाट पर, नहीं मिलेगा दूजा।
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IISc and the Slow Death of Innovation
Published by August 23rd, 2009 in Development, Education, India, Internet and Policy. 0 CommentsPrithwiraj is upset with IISc’s plans to restrict internet access to it’s denizens. An interesting read.
In the recent past there has been a flurry of articles (press releases?) in various sections of the media, hailing J.N. Tata’s gift to India on its centennial year, and the high quality of academic research being performed by the [...]
scratchpost has posted a series of pictures from her Ladakh trip. Brilliantly done! Go check them all out.
That is what Himanshu did, went driving from Pune to Leh. And his flickr set is amazing.
Paras has posted a song from the Hindi movie Taj Mahal, which is Raag Miyan ki Todi. Check it out.
Several of the Hindustani Raag are composed by him and often called…Miyan ki Todi, Miyan ki Malhar, Miyan ki Mand amd Miyan ka Sarang. He is also credited with creating major raag like Darbari Kanada, Darbari [...]
Surendra Chaurasiya has nicely captured the mood of happenings of those two days in Mumbai through his photos. I can not show you here but believe me, you won’t regret hopping over to his photoblog to get a glimpse.
Shahrukh Khan at the airport
Published by August 21st, 2009 in Government, Indiaspora and Politics. 3 CommentsOver at the Punekar blog, Sagar Sheldekar thinks “its all in the name”:
Thousands of Indians get frisked everyday on airports all across the globe. My wife is an American citizen and she has to go through the same security checks every time she is entering or leaving the US. So I fail to understand what [...]
Sangfroid talks about ‘a theater fest of sorts‘ at Bangalore-
There is a rather pleasant phenomenon doing rounds of Bangalore of late. The city is witnessing a theater fest of sorts and that is resulting in mood swings, of course of the positive kind. Imagine mid-week, after a tiring day at work, you get to watch [...]
Shalini’s favourite pastime in vacations is a nice morning walk. She takes some in Mashobra and tells us why she likes them.
Waking up early for me is a way to view the world differently, a way to gather my thought, a way to spend some quiet time. I have been waking up early on all [...]
Sushant meets his schoolmates after a decade on Independence day and refreshes his memories from the past. A nostalgic post.
On 29 June 1998 we got our SSC mark sheet and there after I guess many of us never turned back to school…..
Soon we got to make comments how much one has changed. School and class [...]
Global Madrasi goes down the memory lane and remembers the time when he interviewed Rajesh Khanna.
“Hey, I want to interview some Bollywood star,” I told colleagues. The immediate reaction was laughter. “You Madrasi. First speak Hindi. Will you have the guts to interview a film star?”
“Maybe you should start with Rajesh Khanna. He is coming [...]
Back to Mayawati’s statues
Published by August 18th, 2009 in Dalit, Democracy and Politics. 2 CommentsGarga Chatterjee understands the rationale behind the act but does not approve it.
Having said this, one also has to note the deep hypocrisy in the propriety argument. Both Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Panditain Indira Gandhi were made the Bharat Ratna when they were prime ministers. I am not judging these acts but can only say [...]
It rained birds in Urban Gardener’s garden and she weaves a nice story around it-
Then the Spice Birds showed up and took over the bird-bath.
I rarely get to see them sit still. they’re usually flitting in and out of the garden with long grass strips in their beak busy building a nest in my Nursery [...]
Rehab Chougle posts some pictures from the Great wall of Mumbai project.
Open up, India
Published by August 16th, 2009 in India, Indiaspora, Prejudice and Society. 1 CommentThe Psycho Babbler visited India after four and a half years. And she thinks we need to have a more open mind about all the changes happening around us:
Those comments above beat another one hands down made by another friend who thought I should seriously consider “settling down” (aka get married dammit!!!) because who would [...]
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