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Tag Archives: India
Ab ki baar we’ve come pretty far
Six weeks of voting and I wasn’t there in India for it at all, but thanks to social media and political parties and commentators getting on these platforms, it’s been easy to follow the proceeds, and be excited. I watched … Continue reading
Satya Nadella as CEO – good thing, or great thing?
As you might have heard, Satya Nadella is now the CEO of Microsoft. As an NITKian, I’m outraged that a guy from down the highway from my alma mater made it before any of my seniors did. As left-leaners, some … Continue reading
Posted in analysis, geek, NITK Nostalgia
Tagged ceo, India, microsoft, racism, satya nadella
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Corruption, Young Blood In Politics, and the like
The whole Jan Lokpal agitation brings me to write about politics after a long, long time. It was partly intentional, this hiatus. There was a point when I was intensely political, but I discovered I was getting my blood pressure … Continue reading
Posted in analysis, politics
Tagged anna hazare, arvind kejriwal, bribery, corruption, India, jan lokpal, kiran bedi, lokpal
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My Experiments with Food and Fasting
Folks who know me from childhood will assert I was not an easy child to feed. My mother and her mother struggled hard to keep me well-nutritioned. In fact, my mother has so much practice that I’m pretty confident if … Continue reading
Posted in analysis, Controversies, politics
Tagged anna hazare, corruption, fast-unto-death, hunger strike, India, protest, scams, starvation
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Where were you when India won the World Cup?
I woke up from a seeming stupor at 7:45 am, and the last thing I remembered was closing my eyes during the 9th over of the SL innings for ‘two minutes’. Webcric’s feed was intermittent and I ended up following … Continue reading
Posted in Games, too long to twitter
Tagged bleed blue, cricket, cricket world cup, dhoni, India, india won, mahendra singh dhoni, sachin, sri lanka, tendulkar, we are the champions, world cup, world cup final
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Suggestions for Election Posters of Rahul Gandhi
So there exists an opportunity now to make election posters into collector’s items or posters to adorn a girl’s room. One of the candidates is a single half-Italian man. With dimples, at that. And no, Dino Morea is not standing … Continue reading
Posted in Attempts at Humour, politics
Tagged Congress, elections posters, eye-candy, India, italian men, posters, rahul gandhi
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What am I supposed to feel?
I have relatives and friends in Mumbai. Luckily they live on the outskirts, nowhere near Colaba. Though, my uncle had been to the Taj that afternoon. He returned back to base much before anything happened, thankfully. Just like he was … Continue reading
Posted in analysis, Bangalore, Secularism
Tagged bomb blasts, bombay, citizens, India, mumbai, mumbai attack, nariman house, oberoi trident, Pakistan, resilience, shootout, taj, terrorism, terrorists
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Enough is Enough.
So Obama’s Presidential Transition Team has an Indian woman now. Sonal Shah. Her appointment has sparked off a controversy. Not coz she’s Indian or anything, but because her father was closely associated with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. Some groups called … Continue reading
Posted in Adam's Bridge, analysis, Controversies, politics, Secularism
Tagged conservatives, godse, hindu, India, mahatma gandhi, Nehru, Pseudosecularism, Ramar Sethu, ramayana, rightism, rss, sonal shah, sonia gandhi, vhp
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Cash-for-Vote – The Gaulish Connection
I don’t know if I read too much between the lines or what… I felt the beer scene in Rang De Basanti was from Tolstoy’s War and Peace. I also felt Jab We Met was an adaptation of Wodehouse’s Damsel … Continue reading
Posted in analysis, Cartoons, Controversies, politics
Tagged asterix, asterix at the olympic games, debate, goscinny, India, le petit nicolas, nuclear deal, parliament, somnath chatterjee, trust vote
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An EPIC saga
Nah… I don’t have a good enough post to merit this title… getting my Voter ID passed off without incident. Unless of course you count all our addresses being printed wrong, to some location that possibly doesn’t exist. Or the … Continue reading
A Googlebombing Suggestion aka India hits back
Yeah, so reams have been written about how unfair Proctor was, how unfair the entire treatment of the Indian cricket team was, how Symonds deserves to be kicked… On another blog about this entire thing, one commenter had suggested that … Continue reading
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