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While I was away. June 2013 [Part 1 / 2]
Okay, so you might have heard this before - India is a land of quirks!Carrying over from the previous month, Srinivasan gave his laundry list of demands and shuffled his feet long enough until we lost...
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While I was away : June 2013 [Part 2 / 2]
Spoiler Alert: You are being watched!The world has changed much since my last post, so let's get started on the wonderful times of our lives. Let's start by saying Obama is the most powerful man on...
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While you were away : July 2013 (Part 1 of 3)
The past week saw much chatter.Uncle Sam grew restless as Vladimir's Russia kept its best poker face.Neither US nor Russia can afford sparking a conflict that will end the human race. So while Snowden...
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While you were away: July 2013 (Part 2 of 3)
Confession time!We, Indians, have a unique way to whitewashing our sins - We simply rename our cities.Bombay became Mumbai, Calcutta - Kolkata, Madras - Chennai, Bangalore - Bengaluru. What was wrong...
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[If] I Lead India
If you are a TV Advt junkie like I am, chances are you wouldn't have missed the Times Of India 'I Lead India' campaign. You can say that they spent a heck lot of money conceptualizing that ad. What...
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While you were away: July 2013 [Part 3 of 3]
When politicians provide us much self-deprecating humor, bloggers like me can't ask for more. I had to wipe the drool off.China, got a little taste of Pakistan. Unfortunately, the Chinese aren't as...
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While you were gone: August 2013 [Part 1 of 3]
The past week, politicians felt foolish.I said 'Go with the feeling'.A 22 year old JNU student did a Freddy Krueger and killed himself. And that's how urban legends are born, thank you.And it looks...
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While you were gone: August 2013 [Part 2 of 3]
This past week, we all took a lungful of air, pinched our noses and took the deep dive. To the rest of the world at the surface, we told - 'Don't wait up, honey'.First of all, to my Indian readers -...
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While you were gone: August 2013 [Part 3 of 3]
Okay, folks. Stock up on food and water and say your prayers. This could be it.We love gossip, correction - We love listening to those juicy bits. Towards that effort, we read news of how our most...
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While you were gone: September 2013 [Part 1 of 3]
'Good to have a goal'Have you ever reminisced of simpler, happier times in the past? In the future, you will think these were wonderful times too. Our senile little Home Minister Mr Shinde, bragged of...
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While you were gone: September 2013 [Part 2 of 3]
Sorry folks, no hyperlinks this time.. Better sense prevailed.Obama spared all of us another war. Syria will spend $1 billion to dismantle its chemical weapons.The courts punished the most famous...
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While you were gone: September 2013 [Part 3 of 3]
In India, there are only a handful of things that you can do if you want to live the Indian dream - Movies, Politics and Cricket. Incidentally, none of them require a high school education.Enter Vindoo...
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While you were gone: October / November 2013
Sonia is retiring. Boo Yaa! Okay, so Obama is the flavor of the year.Not only did he spare us World War 3 but also saved the billions around the world from financial gloom and doom. The Senate voted...
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Guest Post : Romeo & Juliet : Ruined.
Project: A lousy adaptation of the Romeo and Juliet.Title: Goliyon ki raasleela-RamleelaDisclaimer: The character ‘Ram’ in the movie does in no way portray Lord Ram. No animals were hurt in the making,...
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While you were gone: November / December 2013
'Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country' - JFK.RIP MadibaAfter years of unabated corruption and an economy that is going south faster than Obama's ratings, our...
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While you were gone: November / December 2013
Vanity of vanities. Life is futile. Case in point - The last 'real' king of the erstwhile princely State of Mysore, art connoisseur and overall pompous guy, Srikanta Datta Wodeyar, passed away after...
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Women of My Life!
Many men that I know of see women as objects. Objects of Desire, Objects of menial labor, Objects of breeding and the list goes on...Many months ago, when my Employer decided to have a whiteboard to...
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Raped by My Man
Two decades ago, when I was raped by a man while vacationing in Kerala, I didn't know what I'd do.My family didn't take it seriously and brushed it aside. They thought I was lying. I was raped twice...
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The Colors of Life
Isn't falling in love such a wonderful feeling?This world has such excellent examples of people falling head over heals in love. So what makes two people love eachother so intensely?Can it be...
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And that's the way the cookie crumbled ... until now [2014]
Well, that was some Q1, wasn't it!Arvind Kejriwal came in with a bang, and left at the same speed he came. He cried hoarse and we all sympathized with him. So what if he isn't in power, his stock has...
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