So much has already been written about this incident that i decided against adding to the entropy of the Blogosphere. But i am feeling a little disturbed, and couldn’t help advancing the onset of carpal tunnel on my fingers. What is going on with India, and Indians? I am referring to the attack by...
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Google Knows it All
Google as we all know, is God. Google knows everything. Google Baba will answer all your queries and solve all your problems. If you go to Google.com and start typing a question, it will start suggesting some questions that people have been looking for, and a number of the results matching that query. Great...
Raj Thackeray
Over the course of some three hundred odd years, the British gave a lot to India. They gave us the Railways, Post and Telegraph, Cricket, Tea, Movies. They gave us the English language, which was going to come in handy in the twenty first century to help India become the world’s back office. They...
Mera Bharat Mahan
I wrote a poem titled Mera Bharat Mahaan sometime in middle school, and remember submitting it for the school annual magazine. The class teacher pretty much rubbished me, implying that there was no way i had written the poem myself. (It was that good, apparently!) I don’t recall the exact poem myself, but here’s...
New WordPress Theme – Elegant
Here’s introducing the first of more to come publicly available amreekandesi themes – Amreekandesi-Elegant. Features: Elegant is a two column theme, with a right sidebar. The theme is tested on Mozilla Firefox as well as Internet explorer, which is to say that it results in the same display on both browsers (That’s a minor...
Mu-barrack Obama
Big day for America, and potentially, all mankind. America’s first black president got sworn to office today. The still underway inauguration gala is a huge show, run at a cost of some $160 million, and witnessed by several million people live in Washington, besides many more viewers of the televised event. Funnily enough, Obama’s...
Golden Oldies – Ek Anek
For those that didn’t live in the times of Doordarshan, or don’t know the power of unity, here’s something you should check out. For those who can recall those heady times, this might just bring tears of nostalgia that flood your home/office, so be forewarned. This relic from the good old days. Ek Chidiya,...
American Dream/Desi Consulting
As the air hostess handed over the immigration forms, Rajat felt a daze from the blood rushing to his head. His dream was coming true, at last. Ever since he had gotten into engineering and heard all those stories of Indians going to America to live out their american dream, he had had only...
Of Incompetence, Inability, and Incontinence
Pranab Mukherjee is a great son of India who has had a long and distinguished political career. Ever since his accidental inclusion in the union cabinet to achieve an auspicious count of ministers way back in 1973, he has worked tirelessly towards making India a better place to live. But after all these years...
The Story of India
PBS is running a six part series called ‘The Story of India‘ which premiered in the US tonight. The Story of India already aired in the UK in 2007, and is narrated by historian Michael Wood and shows (attempts to, at least) the history of the Indian subcontinent over the past few thousand years....
