Tweeples report of a tweetup from Lucknow.
Now Lucknow, to be honest is really not one of those cites where social networking sites are used by a large part of the population no it is not that way at all. I was not able to convince many people to come to a tweetup and had almost [...]
Archive for the 'Misc' Category
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 [...]
Post man describes from first hand experience an incident from the recent floods in Kurnool and what people were up to in the midst of all that suffering :
A boat with a couple of guys driving it was looking for survivors. The boat could take 10 at a time. But one could enter only if [...]
A reflection on the eternal India vs Bharat conundrum……
Are the men who celebrate Ganapati on the streets uncouth? Is there a system to civility?
Rich people dance at discos and other city spots that attract money. Such places are enclosed and its activities are not for the poor man. The people attending these places may not [...]
Debiprasad reminisces about some iconic Indian consumer brands that most of us would have grown up with……
Surf, Wheel, Nirma, Tide (mid budget) etc. Most of the people use these cheap detergents, but they call it ‘Surf’. You will go to a shop and ask “Give me a 500 gram Surf”, the shopkeeper will ask “Which [...]
The Tarmac Kisser has been exploring a certain “haunted house” in his locality. Check out his posts here in parts 1 & 2:
Making our way up the stairs we reached the lobby which was in a rather sorry state. Everything was dirty and desecrated. The elevator shaft did not have an elevator and the wiring [...]
All this hustle and bustle
Published by May 11th, 2009 in Culture, Environment, Health, India, Misc, Society and Spotlight Series. 2 Comments[ This is Essay No. 38 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
All this hustle and bustle
by Usha
———–
As a nation we seem to have great tolerance for noise. It is silence that makes us uneasy. 25 years ago our neighbourhood was considered a suburban area and there were few houses and fewer [...]
Yamini has been blogging for a long time and is starting a new blog about her native place, Dintenapadu. She promises to bring together other bloggers from that place and write more as time goes along. Here is the introduction:
I have been blogging from a very long time and always wished to have a special [...]
Shaaks is in Goa and chronicles the various ‘advances’ by all sorts of people, right from Taxi drivers to men on bikes offering “night-partners”:
*horn* *horn* *horn* *horn* *horn*
“Bugger, let this bike guy behind you go through!”
Geoffery is riding at 30 kilometers per hour. He retards further. The couple of men atop a Yamaha RX100 come [...]
“His last words still echo in my ears…. agar mask ka wait kiya to woh mar jayenge… aise hi chal,” “He jumped and so did I. I was the last man to see him conscious before I fell myself and in those 30 to 60 seconds we were down there, all I remember is how he [...]
Thought Safari can’t let go of the memories of college, like many of us:
And he is says… Its the same thing…. that was probably the last time ever, when we were living free of any compromise. We were not spending our days thinking of what people would think of us, of how our actions were [...]
That’s why I settled to hit the railway station where it is always crowded and it is not quite possible for the shopkeeper to remember “that strange guy who asked for Cosmopolitan!“
After long waiting to buy the platform-ticket, I entered the platform and reached the bookstall. My eyes immediately caught the Cosmo, but I was [...]
Shekhar thinks that the movie Drona can be best described as a bollywood adaptation of the PC game, Prince of Persia:
If any further clarification was needed, I just needed to wait for the movie trailers to hit the theatres and television screens. Images of ‘Drona’ swaying on ropes inside what looked like Persian warehouses just [...]
Here is a man who seems to know all there is to know about watches and horology! Check out Pradipta Mohapatra’s blog.
“I mean, do you sort of worship cows in India? I mean, i sort of heard that you can get into big trouble in India if you hit a cow with a car, much more than if you hit a person? I know that in Egypt, it is okay to hit a woman with a [...]
Uma writes on adversity, creativity and walking naked
“So one fine day your brain cells flash this ingenious idea at you. You act on it, decide to strip to the bare essentials and proceed to walk through the streets of the very conventional town in which you live, in protest. Although you manage to shock the [...]
Rochak writes about the mystery.
Roopkund is a place in Uttarakhand state of India, and it is the location of about three to six hundred skeletons at the edge of a lake—Skeleton Lake in the Himalayas.
The skeletons were discovered in the 1942 when a park ranger stumbled upon on one of it and find a mass [...]
Vikram Karve writes about the recently organized Blog Camp Pune.
We had a lovely time at the Pune Blog Camp yesterday [Saturday 16th June 2007] at the Symbiosis Center for IT in the Hinjewadi IT Park. The venue was marvelous – hats off to the “unorganizers’ for choosing such an apt venue. Being my first [...]
Aishwarya writes…dogs dying is something I cannot stand. But the worst bit has been the reports of the dogs being so trusting and friendly towards the people about to kill them. That part is horrifying to me.”
This is why people (real people) don’t kick puppies – because puppies have no reason to think they’ll be [...]
Alakananda writes a two part post *with pictures* on Bonsai – “the art of aesthetic miniaturization of trees”
“Our ancient physicians tried growing hard to come by plants/trees in their own homes in pots as vamana vrikshas or miniature trees. There are also those that believe that visiting Buddhist monks who traveled back to China [...]
Suresh blogs about his encounter with sadhus psychedelics and philosophises.
Even Now lot of religions across the world use drugs as a source of glimpse to divine. You can get enough records of this usage in Aghori, Essenes, Sufiana, Tibetan traditions. But then this was a mystic science which got lost over a way and Drugs [...]
Recent Comments