What is news to the Hindu? Karunanidhi keeping a promise:
This promise to the people of Tamilnadu to anoint his son to the throne, the Emperor has given more responsibilites to the Prince and Hindu is all glee for the emperor has kept his promise- how noble- mere subjects we are supposed to celebrate this “Pattabhishekam”. [...]
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Maddy recalls a hilarious experience of one of his friends, when they first came to Istanbul.
Soon the house was set, the stove was up and running and the ‘sadam’ preparation was in full steam…Turkish yoghurt was a perfect accompaniment and curd rice came along famously. However our Mallu boy had his personal share [...]
Ageless Bonding turns 50, and wonders why 50 can’t be just that, instead of being the new 40.
• At 40 it comes as a shock when a 25 year old calls you “aunty”; at 50 nothing affects you – not even when the 40 year old neighbour calls you aunty.
• People’s expectations from you are a [...]
In a post that starts off with a humorous analogy, Plus Ultra quotes Dr. Atul Gawande, in what seems to be the toughest part of being a doctor - the knowledge that the slightest mistake will be fatal, and irreversible.
In surgery, as in anything else, skill and confidence are learned through experience- haltingly and humiliatingly. [...]
For the ’sms generation’ which feels anything more than four lines is a lecture, Sayesha has what she calls executive summaries of Kabir’s two-liners.
Kaal karey so aaj kar, aaj karey so ab
Pal mein pralaya hoyegi, bahuri karega kab?
Rough translation: Do today what’s due tomorrow. Do now what’s due today. If the moment is lost, when [...]
Kiran at Desicritics writes about a fictional chat conversation between an Engineer-MBA in the US and a girl in India who have entered the arranged marriage arena:
He: Isn’t this chat a wee bit uncomfortable? It would have been better if we had met face to face.
She: Didn’t know what to say and didn’t want to [...]
Kiran gets caught with a newly-wed couple and is subjected to a lot of information apparently unknown:
They: And he really seems to know things about dresses - I mean, his selection of my sarees, and other dresses exactly matched my preferences!
Me: (Holy crap! Where is my dessert?!) Ohh, that’s fantastic! You guys are just made [...]
Great moments in sporting history
Published by April 18th, 2008 in History, Humour and Sports. 0 CommentsThe city was in an uproar. Everywhere little booklet biographies of Pele were published, sold and bought in droves. [Abhijit still has one of them], Calcutta having always been a literary city, and the merchandising juggernaut as yet a glint in the eye of international football [one assumes]. The game was to be played at [...]
Prajakta shares her experiences and a FAQ of sorts about her twin sister and their growing up together:
“When is your birthday?” And then turning to my sister “And when is yours?”
heehee…that’s dumb! Nevermind…happens! :D
Well, Both of us share the same birth date…and obviously the same birthplace…
I think some people are so thrilled to have our [...]
Vasuki enters into a conversation with an auto-driver, picks up some inside info about the Kannada movie industry, and gets offered a chance to act in a movie!
Deep realizes ‘now things are very different’ on Indian roads and …not so different:
I also realize that woman don’t wear helmets. So I ask my driver why that’s the case — he says, “oh the ladies were furious that their hair was being messed up. Woman have many rights you know. Men in the goverment [...]
Praveen at the NeoAlchemist has a set of lovely cartoons that make you ponder as well as laugh. Go take a look!
No, I am not kidding. Din talks about drinking Sharjah. What does it mean? Well, check his post out!
# 3) You see a line of white dashes down the middle of your side of the road. You must:
# Immediately move your car so as to straddle it, and thus ensure that cars behind you cannot overtake. Few people are aware of it, but the accepted meaning of that line the world over is [...]
Silverine’s brother M decides to masquerade as his grandfather and slaughters a teenager’s Easter:
M (continuing mercilessly): And will you be drinking?
Roshan: No achchacha! I am not yet 18!
M: Ha!! I know you will drink!! Rascal!!
Roshan (hurt): I swear achchacha I won’t.
M: Remember the old saying when Satan tempts you, “Do not drink and park, [...]
Saad Sultan lays down 7 Precepts for living in Pakistan, his take on PTV is reminiscent of the Indian Doordarshan channel:
If, on the other hand, you can’t help but watch the news because you think that being told what’s happening makes up for your doing nothing about it, then watch PTV News. You will be [...]
The New Age Scheharazade has a whole set of sizzling ideas (and a very well-thought Plan B as well) for board exams:
[...] Wherever you find a suitable question, insert a line about how exam stress is killing today’s children, and how a recent study has proved that they’re losing hair at an alarming rate. Then [...]
Pazz researches quite a bit on the different kinds of people traveling on the Mumbai locals:
‘Saath me ladeej hai’ Species: This species is extremely paranoid when it comes to the well being of their female-kind. So much so that they make them travel with them in the ‘general’ compartment instead of the ladies dabbas.
Heh… wonder [...]
How will Ishant Sharma lose form or fade away? Jrod looks at the potential ways:
His adam’s apple is actually an alien, sent from the planet klaatu, and is intent on killing us all.
Some Bollywood producer (aka India mafia dude) gets him a gig on the Indian remake of irreversible starring Aishwarya Rai, but he takes [...]
Amrita learns that there really is no such thing as a free lunch.
Free food is the blessing and the bane of penniless grad students. Add to that the fact that I am Indian. In my first month at Stanford, my social life revolved completely around the availability of free food. I have masqueraded as a [...]
Amodini finds ‘zero character development, almost no logic, desultory conversation and some very unfunny lines passed of as humor’ in Race. Phoenixnu asks: ‘When was the last time you saw something so bad that it was funny?’ Swati regrets: ‘Alas the director duo tries to be smart but not intelligent.’
Sai concludes his review with this [...]
What Bangles Mean
Published by March 16th, 2008 in Culture, Feminism, Humour, Media, Patriarchy, Politics, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsA women’s day news report about Renuka Chowdhury’s “empowerment bangles” has Rimi B Chatterjee musing on bangles and their cultural significance.
If women are socialised to see certain kinds of jewelry in certain ways, so are men. Indian dance and drama have turned the business of a woman putting on her jewelry into an art form: shringar. Men [...]
Says Twisted DNA:
In the “good manners” books, they spend chapters upon chapters on such details as which hand to hold the fork with and which finger to pick the nose with. But they don’t spare a word for public restroom etiquette. Which forces me to pass on a few etiquette requests to my colleagues and [...]
Which Williams are you cheering?
Published by March 11th, 2008 in Humour, India and Personal. 0 CommentsAditya blogs about his visit to the Bangalore Open Tennis
The Williams sisters were playing each other, and this uncle forgot which one is which. He’d cheer for one of them, then boo the same one right the next point, and then go back to cheering the other one for a while and then switch again. [...]
Jo jeeta wohi sikander, jo haara wohi bandar
Published by March 6th, 2008 in Humour and Sports. 0 CommentsGreatbong, in his inimitable style, tells us about an interview with two Jingoistic Australian Mainstream Reporters (JAMRs) following the recent CB series. One of the many quotable quotes from the post:
[...] Ponting’s loss of form can be traced back to an incident that happened in India the last time the Australians were minting money sorry [...]
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