Until now, I had no clue as to why we celebrated ‘Akshaya Tritiya’. I still think its a commercial scam to make people buy gold. Here’s what a few bloggers had to say about the festival;
Vijayan Krishan writes;
Akshaya Tritiya, is a very auspicious day. The significance of the day is attributed to the event of [...]
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The gold rush on Akshaya Tritiya
Published by May 7th, 2008 in India, Religion and Society. 5 CommentsAfter a 3 month TV drought, I turned it on to see the new Vodafone ad and found it pretty cute. Apparently, even that is not out of controversy. XH writes;
The ad is on air for almost a month now, and now the Animal Welfare Board of India have sent a show cause notice towards [...]
Barun Roy, in a rather harsh manner vents his acrimony against the treatment of Gorkhas by the West Bengal Government and the nation,
Most of the Gorkha solders recruited into Indian army today come from the hills of Darjeeling, which has a solder in every house. In Darjeeling, it is a matter of pride and honor [...]
Bridging Gaps, Erasing Borders
Published by April 16th, 2008 in Culture, India and South Asia. 1 CommentAnil talks of the recently started India- Bangladesh train service in these words,
“That is my country …. How near is it. Still, I can never reach there.” This was a dialogue in Ritwik Ghatak’s film “Komal Gandhar”, which captured the pain and grief of partition and his dream of reaching there remained just a dream [...]
An Antidote for Extremism
Published by April 13th, 2008 in Democracy, Politics, Religion and Secularism. 0 CommentsManas attempts to craft an antidote for extremism, a crisis that has plagued our country;
Hinduism as it is, is a diverse range of cultures and ways of living. That, unless forced into one single mold, will not lend itself to a common identity. We need to solve this identity crisis from a wholly different angle. [...]
It might be too short a notice but Earth Hour is being celebrated today, the 29th of March between 8 PM and 9 PM. To those who want to observe this means that you have to shut down all electric appliances during this time period in a bid to increase awareness about Global Warming.
The Naive [...]
Gautam has interesting views on democracy and the state of our nation;
Witnessing a momentous period in the rise of our nation, I would like to know what result we should expect from all that seems to happening in our country.As Henry Thoreau said, “our government needs to represent more of what the country is [...]
Tech and Trek tries to take a peek at the latest government move on the encryption of blackberry’s.
This is all well and good for the security agencies but it is a matter of grave concerns that this rule might be enforced across the board and ISPs might be asked to reduce the encryption from 128-bit [...]
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 [...]
The Amount of money being poured in the IPL has surely generated a frenzy amongst bloggers. A few of them write;
Withfreshlime writes,
Cricket, Bollywood film stars and big bucks have come together to break with tradition.
Our cricket players - normally treated as kings - are reduced to mere pawns to be auctioned.
India - with its poverty [...]
The Tao of Gandhi
Published by January 27th, 2008 in Democracy, History, India and Politics. 2 CommentsAfter asking his students why they think Gandhi felt he failed, or why Gandhi is a man “greater than empires”, Martin weighs in with his own thoughts.
To this day, India and Pakistan remain split. Terrorism derails trains on a regular basis and the feast days of Hindu gods are marked by parades of both the [...]
Who Should be leading the nation?
Published by December 16th, 2007 in India and Politics. 0 CommentsOvlkk has some ideas on what kind of leaders he should have. He says some of his idealist statements are because of reading Don quixote. :)
How can the nation let the same jokers lead the nation for such a long time, especially when there has not been any significant improvement from their regimes? Some of [...]
Here an Indian, there an Indian
Published by October 28th, 2007 in Culture, India and Misc. 3 CommentsKetan talks about the whole idea of Being Indian and feeling proud of other ‘Indians’.
We love to laugh at the nouveau riche and the silly way in which they flaunt their baubles: driving up in a flashy red sports car, wiping themselves with branded toilet paper, wearing ice-cubes on their chunky fingers, and most [...]
jelly in their backbone
Published by October 19th, 2007 in Democracy, India and Politics. 0 CommentsThat’s the reason why Shaunak will not vote for the Congress this time.
Unfortunately, they’ve shown that they do, in fact, have nothing but jelly in their backbones. It’s a shame because a heck of a large segment of the middle class was rooting for the 123 agreement to go through and would have backed the Congress [...]
Racism and Symonds
Published by October 19th, 2007 in Humour, Prejudice, Racism and Sports. 0 CommentsAkhil thinks that the racist behaviour of the crowd was a sham. The real problem apparently seems that the crowd doesn’t like his haircut. :)
Earlier, I asked fellow blogger Ottayan and he said that he too got a similar explanation. I am sure more than half of the crowd present at Mumbai and Vadodra had [...]
Durga Ma vs. JK Rowling: mahishasura mardhini??
Published by October 16th, 2007 in Culture and Religion. 0 CommentsAnasuya talks about the Potter pandal in Kolkata, the durga puja and a crazy legal battle.
For those unfamiliar with it (clearly Ms. Rowling and her associates), Durga Puja is far more than a religious occasion, though I notice that the organisers took that stance in their legal defence. It is a cultural extravaganza and a [...]
A Hand to Mouth exsitence !!
Published by October 11th, 2007 in Culture, Food and Humour. 0 CommentsRambodoc talks about an Indian’s eating habits and in my personal opinion, beautifully describes it,
There are certain other types of human eating patterns that are even more remarkable than mine. Back in college, I had a colleague called Subramanian who used to eat with his hands, as most Indians (unlike me) do. During his meal, [...]
Little India talks about his perfect teacher, Dr. PK Mukherjee a.k.a. piklu. He says that there are good teachers, brilliant teachers, but explores the possibility of a perfect teacher.
I told him what I had read, and reminded him of that patient.
He looked into my eyes, as if for the first time, he really noticed me,
he [...]
Krish writes on the Supreme Court and the nature of Bandhs in our Country,
In a democratic society, people have a right to protest when government or private parties impose something against their will. It is the building block of a democratic society. In fact, India’s is what it is today because Gandhi & Co. were [...]
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