For those of you who scoff at Sachin Tendulkar’s greatness, here is Swapnil’s rebuttal:
Forget about the tailenders, if our top batting order had added even 1 run each to their paltry scores, we could have won the match. Criticizing him for not being able to finish that match is akin to that joke where a [...]
Archive for November, 2009
For those of you who scoff at Sachin’s greatness
Published by November 29th, 2009 in Sports. 1 CommentBroom over at the broombox blog retells her memories of getting her first dental braces and what she had to endure to get her “coconut scrapers” straightened out:
I hated going to the dentist once every 2 weeks. It was a long commute involving at least 4 buses and I had motion sickness back then. But [...]
Saxicola Rubetra has begun a series of posts describing her journey into atheism. A thought-provoking read, to say the least:
The real change came about due to Social Studies, in Class 8. That was when we studied modern history, and in particular detail about all the social reformers of the 18th and 19th centuries: the beliefs [...]
Q&A with the other half
Published by November 28th, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality and Humour. 0 CommentsNicole writes about some of the common complaints guys and girls have against each other. You’d probably enjoy these more if you can throw yourself back into the shoes of your 18-year old self:
Accusation # 2
G: Aacche saaf – sutre Kapde inki Aalmariyo mein hai hi nahi
B: Abbey yaar! Time kisske paas hai. Pehle unhe [...]
This week is One State Solution Week 2009. Throughout this week you are invited to write, to perform or to blog…to do whatever you can do to speak out for a harmonious one state solution between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
The One State Solution Weeks began as a redressal of the problem of Partition, that it [...]
Abhinav has finally found the One for himself. Go read up on his blog the touching account of what and how much she means to him:
She has given me a reason.
She has given me the reason to believe I can be a better man when she says she trusts me in spite of my past.
She [...]
Had it been the other way around
Published by November 25th, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality and Humour. 0 CommentsBalvinder dreams of a world where we’re using the semantically incorrect words to describe a day, on the occasion of International Mens’ Day:
By now I had forgotten the purpose of coming out on that bright Sunday morning. I bumped into a newspaper vendor and promptly handed him some coins in exchange of a newspaper. The [...]
India had never had it so good
Published by November 25th, 2009 in Development, Economy and India. 2 CommentsHop over to Sudhir’s blog to find the optimism about India Inc. brimming at its tees:
If we look at the stock exchange, the sensex is healthy largely to the FII. It is a tribute to our industry that they have been giving very great Quarterly results making investments attractive. I was pleasantly surprised to listen [...]
Getting ahead of the competition
Published by November 25th, 2009 in Art, Humour and India. 0 CommentsGetting ahead of the competition is a time-tested survival strategy. Where best to see it than the Indian traffic:
Dhaval’s blog has the entire discussion. :)
Nishant bought a new flat in Patna and has spectacular views all around. Check out these beauties:
Magali Vaz just saw the movie New York, and really liked it. She thinks the US is creating its own terrorists in the name of protecting people:
To the terrorists, any member of a western country like USA, UK etc. is the enemy. And to the law enforcement agencies, any Muslim man is a terrorist. Terrorism seems like [...]
The Hip Hop Grandmom reflects on the place of God and prayer in her life :
Unlike my Christian friends we, in our family, were under no compulsion to pray on a regular basis or go to the temple on a particular day. But we were expected to leave all work and assemble in the room [...]
One of the best articles I’ve read so far about Sachin’s twenty years of being part of Team India, comes from Greatbong:
To me personally Sachin’s most endearing quality is that he still cares. Unlike his colleagues who hang out with groupies after a defeat shrugging it off as a bad day in office, even after [...]
Mumbai belongs to Indians
Published by November 20th, 2009 in Democracy, Politics and Prejudice. 0 CommentsSachin Tendulkar’s comment has generated some controversy (read, some people decided to call it a controversy). Here is what Attitude Speaks has to say about it:
Amitabh Bachchan to Sachin Tendulkar, all have borne the tongue-lashings of this man, who is a self-proclaimed protagonist of the interests of the Marathi “manoos”. Little does he realize that [...]
The Mahabharata : Bhima’s version
Published by November 19th, 2009 in Books, Culture and India. 0 CommentsJai Arjun Singh reviews M T Vasudevan Nair’s acclaimed retelling of the Mahabharata in the voice of Bhima, the second of the five Pandava heroes through his Malayalam work “Randaamoozham”.
Next in the line of succession to his elder brother Yudhisthira (and usually in the shadow of his younger brother Arjuna when it comes to charisma [...]
Vandana visited Devarayana Durga along with some of her friends. Check out the wonderful pics and sights:
A normal guy, a designer and batman
Published by November 19th, 2009 in Art, Humour and Personal. 0 CommentsRamprakash has just started his new series of comics, called Hind-Sight. Go enjoy the comic:
Pulkit has recently got married, and met his better half through an “arranged” marriage. During the course of the hunt, he had prepared a short questionnaire for himself to methodically ask the right set of questions. He shares those with us:
Cliched but crucial
What do you do on week-ends? What sorta things do you derive pleasure/satisfaction [...]
Agriculture economics and the blame game
Published by November 18th, 2009 in Development, Economy, Food, Government and Regulation. 0 CommentsSugandha has a point by point criticism of why the finance minister is pointing fingers at the wrong “inefficiencies of the farm market” while addressing the sharp rise in food prices:
The food policy has so far been characterized by various kinds of input subsidies. The problem is that, unlike support for extension of irrigation or [...]
Anirban has just proposed to a girl:
At the later part of the evening, I spilled my heart out. It is for the first time I spoke unfiltered truth, not thinking of what may happen, how the other person would feel. I am feeling great. I created a bond. I promise to keep it till my [...]
Deeps just completed a year at IBM, her first job. She recollects her journey so far:
I think the best part of the whole journey was the friends we made. We have a kind of connect with each other which is in-explainable!! I love them to bits and today when all of us are distributed across [...]
Assimilate or leave
Published by November 12th, 2009 in Human Rights, India, Politics and Society. 0 CommentsThe Mad Momma profiles the various forms of intolerance in the world today :
Be it the injured Marathi manoos Raj Thackeray who considers everyone else a threat to the Maharashtrian ‘culture’ and langauge – never mind what they contribute to the state.
Or the French burqa ban earlier in schools. And now objecting to it on [...]
Read Sandeep’s take on the recent Hindi Cinema, what it lacks and the apparent overshooting in addressing the Real Indian, in Bollywood: Miles away from Bharat
While the movies in the earlier year’s depicted common man and his problems like dacoits in villages or role of money lenders. Gradually these dacoits were replaced by Smuggler. [...]
The News is for sale……
Published by November 11th, 2009 in Democracy, Government and Media. 1 CommentFour News items of your choice and your profile costs only between Rs 5 to 20 lakh depending on the page of our newspaper.If you are rich enough we will publish for you a special supplement about your achievements for only Rs 1.5 crore.”
Charakan describes the rates for sale of newspaper columns to affordable candidates [...]
Can I have my privacy ?
Published by November 10th, 2009 in Culture, Human Rights and India. 0 CommentsScribe Silhouette raises the question of just where do you draw the line at a couple’s right to privacy?
Time and time again, it keeps happening – if you are nice and polite, people take your basic decency to be a sign of weakness. They try to absolutely bulldoze their way through, and heaven forbid, if [...]
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