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January 2010

January 13, 2010

Happy Lohri and its significance

Every year today, in Punjab Lohri is celebrated. Those, who are from Punjab, this is...

February 2009

February 14, 2009

Love vs Culture and Culture of Love

Pramod Muthalik, of Sri Rama Sene, a Hindu organization has recently been in news for...

February 25, 2008

Cultural interaction in India

There was a lot of reaction on my piece on Raj Thackeray and may felt...

January 2008

January 25, 2008

40% marriages in Mumbai end up in divorce!

Is there something going wrong with Indian marriages? Well, new data and study shows that...

January 04, 2008

Languages and Culture

There are very few blogs across the world, where you see people writing something "original"...

December 2007

December 29, 2007

Chanakya Cinema passes into history

A whole generation of movie goers have grown up in Delhi watching Hollywood and good...

October 2007

October 21, 2007

Now, Carnatic Idol – Music reality show in Carnatic Music

After the fantastic success of Indian Idol (finals got 20 million votes) and Saregamapa (finals...

October 06, 2007

Reasons for decline of Bengal

After reading many things on Netaji (Subhash Chandra Bose) and Swami Vivekananda - the two...

October 05, 2007

The 10 Best places to eat in India: Ajit Chaudhuri

One of the alumni of IRMA - my senior from IRMA, Ajit Chaudhuri - wrote...

August 2007

August 22, 2007

How Partition affected the Sub-continent's Music soul!

Some letters in the Pakistani daily Dawn are sometimes very interesting. Here is another one.....

July 2007

July 26, 2007

Dont destroy my Language

I was recently watching the program on TV about the seven wonders, and what struck...

July 17, 2007

The Recent Indian Reincarnations

Here is the news item from IBN-CNN on the reincarnation stories. Notice how this "scientist"...

July 12, 2007

Wah Taj!

Beautiful picture of the Taj - now securely amongst the 7 Wonders of the World....

May 2007

May 17, 2007

Indology Nonsense from Univ of Chicago's Martha Nussbaum!

Martha Nussbaum is the Professor at University of Chicago for Philosophy. Here she is talking...

May 03, 2007

Dancing in the Delhi Rain!

Remember the joy of getting wet in the rain? I still remember we used to...

April 2007

April 30, 2007

Teen Pregnancies In India are on the rise!

Indian kids these days are getting callous with sex. In Mumbai, the Gynaecologists are saying...

April 30, 2007

Third Culture Kids!

Here is an interesting story of Conflict of Soul and the Skin! Source: Hindustantimes Powered...

April 19, 2007

Another case on marriages in Indian court..

There was a case decided by Supreme Court recently on another area of marriage -...

April 17, 2007

Richard kisses Shilpa..

Richard Gere kisses Shilpa Shetty on the neck in a AIDS meet.. and the Indian...

February 2007

February 24, 2007

Panini's Ashtdhyayi Rules for Sanskrit and Backus-Naur forms for Functional Programming

VishK talks about "Functional Programming" - a paradigm in programming. Functional programming (FP) is of...

February 06, 2007

A Deer when Hungry and Fed: from the eyes of Prehistoric Man!

Kamat's potpurri has an interesting set of illustration based on cave paintings of a hungry...

February 01, 2007

Some Good Indian Recipe blogs

Sometimes, my wife looks for unique Indian recipes.. which are hard to find.. given that...

January 2007

January 24, 2007

Hrithik-Aishwarya Kissing Scene Controversy

The Hrithik-Ash kissing scene that has become the talk of the Indian nation and now...

January 16, 2007

Saree with a Pocket!

The World is achanging! Women in India have joined the workforce and they need to...

January 12, 2007

Message for Chocolate and Tea Lovers

It is recommended practise to have more vegetables and fruits which are very colourfull. They...

January 08, 2007

Peter, a Tourist to India, starts directing Jalandhar's Traffic!

A tourist, Major Pritam Singh alias Peter came to India from Sweden and found that...

December 2006

December 02, 2006

Karan Thapar's interview of the SoB Arjun Singh!

This is an old interview of Arjun Singh by Karan Thapar - an interviewer who...

November 2006

November 29, 2006

Taj Mahal or Tejo Mahalaya?

I know there are many controversy theories that people come out with. But this one...

October 2006

October 31, 2006

Indian Men make the Best Husbands: Russian Feminist, Indian women up in Arms!

Are Indian men good husbands? Well a Russian feminist thinks so! The praise seems to...

October 25, 2006

NASDAQ Commemorates Diwali this year

Here is an interesting picture from SAJA of the Nasdaq building commemorating the Indian festival...