Over at Smoking Apples, Milind is the latest casualty of Apple India’s indifferent service
When the Magic Mouse was launched, I figured it was just a mouse, so it had to show up within a week or two (I remember the Mighty Mouse took three weeks to get here). Friends offered to send me the mouse; [...]
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Changes in Paypal India Policy
Published by February 6th, 2010 in Blogging, Business and India. 3 CommentsShrinidhi is not happy with the sudden changes in the paypal India policy. Neither am I.
The worst thing according to me, is that Paypal has enforced this policy change without any prior notice, any warning and is autonomously back dating the policy and enforcing it on already completed transactions, reversing them and causing huge inconvenience/loss to [...]
From Hum Dil Chuke to Love Aaj Kal
Published by February 5th, 2010 in Bollywood, Cinema and India. 1 CommentAnju Gandhi overhears the conversation of two girls who had recently seen Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Love Aaj Kal
A , “ I don’t understand why did Ash get married to Ajay Devgan, when she was already in love with Salman? Why didn’t she run away from her house?
B ,” how could she? She [...]
Nila-Kantha-Chandra on Calcutta, its intelligentsia and much more:
While the intelligentsia of Calcutta prides itself on being fiercely secular and tolerant, the truth is that most educated Hindus in the city would never have had any substantive intercourse with a Muslim in their lives. And yet they would not hesitate to express their opinion on Muslims, [...]
Celine reacts to the death of two tigers at Jim Corbett National Park in the last 20 days-
I certainly do not agree with the belief of some egoistic and insensitive dumbasses that a tiger is a magical symbol with mystical power in its organs. Let those same dumbasses experiment with celery or dark chocolates instead [...]
Opportunities in India : The NRI paradigm
Published by January 26th, 2010 in Business, Capitalism, Economy and India. 0 CommentsBijoy Mohan explores the new NRI paradigm :
The phrase “economic opportunity” is frequently used in economic discussions, but within India, it has always had a somewhat nebulous meaning. For generations, the opportunities open to citizens were determined by a socially stratified “caste” system and one’s place within it, which was itself determined by birth. A [...]
Madhumita thinks that by excluding Pakistani players from the IPL, the animosity between India and Pakistan has just been prodded further:
Had the Pakistani players being included in the IPL teams, no dramatic progress would have been achieved on the India-Pak relationship. When sixty years of efforts from our various governments couldn’t thaw the ice between [...]
The photo taken by Hobo says it all. Go and have a look.
Jyoti Basu…. A trend setter in death
Published by January 19th, 2010 in Health, India and Society. 0 CommentsStates usually would spend tons and tons of money on their politicians, just to keep them “alive”. But he went one step ahead, in his death he has shown us all a path towards immortality. He decided to donate his body for a very noble cause – medical research.
Bibilophile pays a an apolitical tribute to [...]
Atul takes a Lakhnavi look (in Hindi) to our attitude towards giving. Read to find out what happens in the story.
Fishermen and their Lawyer
Published by January 17th, 2010 in India, Justice and Society. 0 CommentsSanand talks about a gift he got for representing a fishing community in Maharashtra.
On behalf of the fishing community, we filed a suit for injunction before the city civil court in Mumbai. It was fully granted (with respect to 2 pumps and 2 connecting tanks). Then, the other side went to the High Court in [...]
The Pioneer’s Kanchan Gupta’s take on Jyoti Basu.
Jyoti Basu spent the better part of his life living off tax-payers’ money — the conscience of the veteran Marxist was never pricked by the fact that he appropriated for himself a lifestyle shunned by his comrades and denied to the people of a State whose fate he [...]
Justice for Rathore
Published by January 13th, 2010 in Activism, Corruption, Culture, Development, Government, India and Law and order. 0 CommentsThat’s what The Diary of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala wants. That and Justice for ND Tiwari, Paneerselvam, Dinakaran..
Me: OK, I think …..I have a solution.
DINAKARAN: WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT !!! SIRJI! PLEASE DON’T FORGET ABOUT ME.
I’m the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court and was due for promotion to become a Supreme Court Judge.
But the media [...]
Economics and religion
Published by January 13th, 2010 in Development, India and Religion. 0 CommentsBalaji looks at religion’s role over the years
As the dawn of economic revival started in India in 1991, so did the start of the end of Indian secularism. As people started to get more educated, more of them started to believe in religion. they also came to realize that intellectuals like Einstein, Da Vinci and [...]
Vijayendra on how he came to believe in God
I decided then, that I wanted to be him. I decided to believe in God. It sounded stupid to me even as I made the decision, but I figured that if deluding myself is what it takes to gain that kind of courage, then so be it. [...]
Drinking Away to doom
Published by January 8th, 2010 in Consumer, Culture, Health and India. 0 CommentsThe advent of Twenty Ten (2010) fetched 47 crore rupees for TASMAC shops in Tamil Nadu. Chennai topped the list with 7 Crores. Since Beer was shortage, Brandy and Whisky were bought by the revelers of the New Year.
And most important, 60-70% of the new year revelry was by the Youth, the future of this [...]
Sankara brings back beautiful pictures and stories from their visit to Hogenakkal Waterfalls.
As we got out of the waterfall, we found some kids waving at us from a height of over one hundred (100) feet. Then, to our utmost surprise, they jumped into the water, swam to us and collected five rupees from us, which [...]
JohnyML has a nice synopsis of everything that happened in the Indian contemporary art world in 2009:
My idea is to trace the outline of Indian contemporary art events within India during 2009. The observations registered here come from a critic-curator’s perspective. There could be many events and aspects that might not find mention in this [...]
Crime and Punishment
Published by January 2nd, 2010 in Government, Human Rights and India. 1 CommentThere is a recent directive by Ministry of Home Affairs to convert all police complaints into FIR is a knee-jerk reaction (yes reaction) to the recent news of an ex-DGP’s indictment in a molestation case. But Yodha feels that
If good intentions could lead to good governance, we could already be living in Utopia or Ram [...]
Vulpineshooter posts some beautiful pictures from Ranikhet and recommends the place-
Such weekends are hard to come-by. Although, I do travel a fair bit to various places, but this weekend will always be a bit special for me, as never have I been to such a quiet and serene place which stole my heart in an [...]
2009 : A few days more…..
Published by December 23rd, 2009 in India, Misc, Politics and Society. 0 CommentsAditya sums up 2009 and is generally unhappy about how thing have turned out to be :
Well, its been very normal this year, & hence it is special.
As soon as i look back at the proceedings of this year, there’s nothing that i can recall to remember this year for an event or two. India [...]
Onethoughton fondly recalls the recent trip he made to his home in Cochin from Chennai :
Having got no tatkal tickets, I decided to board the Kovai express from Chennai early in the morning. Though worried that I might have to risk standing all through the journey, I still decided to hope for the best and [...]
Answers to: “Why do we need a separate state?”
Published by December 12th, 2009 in India and Politics. 1 CommentRaj has compiled a set of answers to that question: “Why do we need a separate state, Telengana”:
d. Nagarjuna sagar dam is built in Nalgonda district which is in Telangana but majority of the water from the dam is used for Krishna and Guntur district. The original dam was supposed to be build much ahead [...]
At the India First-Hand blog, they believe the issue demonstrates nothing but the impotency of the government:
Both the State of Andhra Pradesh and government of India made strategic mistakes. The issue of Telungana has been going on for many years. The people who are behind these movements like KCR have not produced any valid reasons [...]
Arun at iVinca (the very same Arun of the India Travel Blog at Paintedstrokes) posts some breathtaking pictures of places around Bangalore!
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