Two fine posts, the first, a well-crafted crafted response to Vir Sanghvi’s mention of a mysterious Blogging Elite and the other, a gentle but firm rap on the media’s superiority complex represented again by Vir Sanghvi and Sagarika Ghose (whose choice of words in her tweet is quite heartwarming).
So here’s an FAQ of sorts that [...]
So when I read this email exchange between a certain Professor Ashley Tellis and Nitin earlier this evening, I merely smiled. I attributed the Professor’s venomous tirade to either of these: uncontrollable blood pressure that blasted through his keyboard, or a naive assumption that Nitin is his student. And such venom on a really trivial [...]
Slimes Productions proudly presents! Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara. This 16-minute digital affront from the Slimes of India group singlehandedly eclipses the candle-lit darkness of the eminent dolts who were awarded various Lotus Awards for Family Loyalty on Republic Day. The Slimes of India is on an urgent mission to show ‘em who’s the worst. [...]
Today is Makara Sankranti, celebrated across India to both herald the beginning of longer days, and reap the harvest of months of backbreaking work in the fields. But the greater significance of Makara Sankranti like most Hindu festivals, is to highlight another living instance of the amazing cultural unity of India. People in Karnataka exchange [...]
A person’s true culture often emerges involuntarily in two circumstances. One when he is drunk and the other, when he is senile. We’ve never seen Deve Gowda speaking when he was inebriated so it’s both logical and safe to assume that his senility wrenched out his true culture.
The political mudslinging over the NICE project [...]
Preface
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has consistently earned high rankings in the world as the 12th best public university and inside the US, as the 2nd best, and boasts of being affiliated with several Nobel lauretes. Its noble motto, “let there be light” has echoes from the Vedic Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya. A University that [...]
A brief pictorial representation showing the links between the weapons and how they’re connected.
Legend: The ones in large font in Red show the biggest threats.
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Every application by a divorced woman under section 125… of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, pending before a magistrate on the commencement of this Act shall, notwithstanding anything contained in that code… be disposed of by such magistrate in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
This quote is from that spectacular, Congress party-created monster [...]
It’s that time of the year again. You might want to check where and how it all started or simply scan the awardees that made it to the 2008 list. Presenting the Most Loathsome People of India circa 2009. Truth be told, the folks who made it this year fiercely vied with each other in [...]
Vir Sanghvi takes an (un)welcome break from his culinary columns and embarks on a noble mission of educating fellow Indians about the virtues of secularism in the tenor we are familiar with. The occasion is rather fitting: December 6, the 17th anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition. His heartwarming approach actually melted my heart. Really. [...]
