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Tag Archives: india
When will we learn?
Of all places, I found an article on reddit about a girl born with eight limbs on the outskirts of Bangalore. Lakshmi is one of those conjoined twins where one twin did not develop completely. What makes her case especially … Continue reading
Irony is…
… an Indian company out-sourcing jobs to the US! Update: Apparently the newspaper site I linked to doesn’t believe in permalinks. Here’s a page at the Inquirer that summarises the article.
Follow up on “Cell phones and lightning”
I’ve done some more Googling and I can’t find any news articles online which talk about the cell phones in that story. Even the newspaper I read it in originally doesn’t have it on their website. Also, the professor from … Continue reading
Cell phones and lightning
A girl walking on the beach with her friends was struck by lightning and killed yesterday. Apparently she was carrying the mobile phones of most of her friends in her bag and the newspaper I read said that this might … Continue reading
Stars twinkle only in western skies!
The state of Madhya Pradesh is on such a determined “anti-western” drive, that they’ve decided to remove nursery rhymes like “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and “Baa Baa Black Sheep” from the text books of primary schools. Funnily, it’s not been … Continue reading
Stir crazy
I wrote this piece a while ago for a newspaper that wanted articles on “hostel life.” They never expected something like this and eventually didn’t publish it. I just dug it out recently when I needed samples of my past … Continue reading
Travelling on Bombay locals means…
…no matter how empty the train is, your feet will get stepped on an average of two times. …when you decide to sit under a fan in a crowded train, about three people will stand around you, not only blocking … Continue reading
How terrorists win
Bangalore, the city my parents live in, was shocked on the 28th of this month. A man brandishing an assault rifle fired indiscriminately on scientists attending a conference at the J.N. Tata Auditorium, across the road from the Indian Institute … Continue reading
Taking a few steps backward
It’s bad enough that non-issues are used for publicity and even taken to court, now even Ministers of the Union Government decide they should tell us about sexual mores! The whole Khusboo incident (read a bit about it at Kate’s … Continue reading
Bah! Diwali!
Diwali, the festival of light in India is supposed to be a fun festival. It represents the triumph of good over evil. All in all, a good thing, no? But no, Diwali means I get woken up at 6:30am everyday … Continue reading