- Why Dumpster Diving Will Save the Planet Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:43:56
“You need to eat trash.” It’s Seifert’s selling point, if he’s selling anything. He assures me he’s never once gotten sick from eating out of a dumpster. It’s different than eating from a restaurant’s dumpster, too. He clarifies the difference in pulling wrapped, packaged items out of trash bags that were just sitting on a [...] - shabe-baraat, thanks giving Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:27:11
Yesterday was Shabe-Barat , an auspicious night for the Muslims, the night on which the almighty pardons the sins of his children who seek his forgiveness. From the sunset to dawn is the auspicious period to seek the forgiveness and during this time Almighty’s light of forgiveness descends upon the sky.
Nicely written page about a [...] - Truth sets you free and unemployed Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:21:17
Dressed in a long, orange kurta, orange pajamas and a bright orange turban, Swami Agnivesh looks every bit the haranguing fanatic.
But India’s latest televangelist is cut from a different cloth. In a forest of Rush Limbaugh-style conservatives, Agnivesh is the sole voice of India’s fast-fading social liberalism on TV. Or was. The crusader has just [...] - Open letter to Chief Minister of Maharashtra Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:29:40
RE: Transportation in the United States
Dear Shri Chavan,
I hear that you recently made a trip to the United States to study the transportation infrastructure here. I hope you had a good experience.
Well, it’s a pity that we did not get to meet! I read about your trip in the papers and wanted to write to [...] - Do we have another Ramar Pillai? Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:19:50
Tathagat’s father, Tulsi Narayan Prasad, is now credited with creating a ‘programmed child’ to create a genius son using astrology and eugenics. Tulsi Narayan is a practitioner of ‘astro-genetics’ and claims he has manipulated his timing of sex to determine the sex of the ‘to-be-born’ child. He proudly says that he was keen on “producing [...] - Churches around Bangalore Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:45:31
Check out the amazing pictures of the churches around Bangalore on Samaresh’s blog:
On my quest of knowing a little more about the place that I call home I went in search of old historical Church which are part of this bustling settlement .As it is home to a number of historic and extremely impressive [...] - Media in dire need of self-policing Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:48:19
“With great power comes great responsibility” says our friendly neighborhood Spiderman. A thriving, flourishing media is one of the yardsticks of a thriving flourishing democracy. The media is often described as the watchdog of democracy. But who will watch the watchdogs? In an ideal state of things the media acts as a conduit between the [...] - Which Bandh was it: Bharat, India or Hindustan Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:52:51
The latest bandh which caused a lot of distress to the gereal public …. A very nice analysis of its meaning and impact goes here in this post by being cynical…
“I am not sure of the facts, but I don’t think there would be any other country on this planet which has more than one [...] - Choosing philosophy,Sociology or Political Science Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:30:57
People often ask me that why a person of my intelligence, my caliber would want to waste his life by taking a course such as Philosophy or Sociology or Political Science. I don’t blame them. They are groomed in an environment where they are taught that making a decent living by licking someone else’s boots [...] - doubts on history Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:04:52
I have lot of doubts on accuracy of history, of India, about all kings – about all kingdoms! Something does not seem right to me, except British Raj! During their time they had press running in the country, which made things bit transparent. Apart from that there were other secret publications run by freedom fighters. [...] - Outsourced entertainment cannot become a national passion Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:10:58
Vikram argues that if India’s national football team gets to play with better teams more often, we can make better teams:
This ‘solace’ giving fact is in fact one of the principal reasons why India does not have a good soccer team. Indians are not good at soccer because they dont (or dont get [...] - So how do you choose which country to support in a world cup? Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:43:58
Since us Indian fans don’t really have India to support on the world stage for football, here is how BigFourZa thinks some of us choose which team to support:
Argentina! There are three types of people who go for the sky blues, each one with completely different reasoning. One group is the people in and [...] - The art of Football Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:07:50
To keep up with the world-cup fever, here is a blog that gives you a glimpse into the art inspired by football. Check it out. They also quote Tom Horan of Telegraph.
“Should football be considered an art form? If art is an attempt by man to recreate recognisible patterns of his emotional life, to replicate [...] - Jai ho! Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:16:55
A great Article and post which forces you to pnder over the things that you come across day to day, some that you yourself do and some that others do and at the end all the atrocities are conveniently sidelined by just blaming it by saying that its India afterall..
“I don’t understand that other national obsession, [...] - Government sends criminals abroad, you and I pay the victims Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:59:28
Well, that’s what happened in Bhopal anyway. Read more at the vu-point blog:
The Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted to re-examine the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy has recommended that the Central Government dole out an additional compensation worth Rs 1,500 crore to the victims. Where will this Rs 1500 crore come from? Through additional taxes. In [...]
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