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I love killing mosquitoes. It is my superpower.
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Tweet It was a regular day. We had just got back from lunch. We used the full designated hour, in true Indian tradition. Rinsed the mouth, got the dose of saunf, and completed two rounds of the office complex while discussing important issues like how much money the Indian cricketers must have been paid...
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Tweet Flew to New York this week on a two week vacation. Took some notes during the flight. Think of it as a live tweet of the 15 hour journey. T3. Whoa. Big. Flying a day after the 9/11 10th anniversary. I deserve a bravery award. 16 months old and junior is on his...
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Tweet Last week, former cricketer Atul Wassan got beaten up for overtaking the Haryana CM’s security people in Gurgaon this week. This is just the latest in our long legacy of killing or maiming people over issues of national importance such as overtaking, a scratch on the car, or a few seconds delay in...
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Tweet Alright people, print this out and stick it on a wall in front of your desk. Print bumper stickers if you like. Forward this to all friends, foes and colleagues. The following tips will save your life. They will make you the king of Indian roads. Nobody will ever overtake you again. Not...
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Tweet Alright, this is going to be one of those posts you should immediately bookmark. It is so epic it’s almost a public service announcement. This post will tell you how to get a passport for your minor child. An Indian passport, to be precise. We don’t do China. Let’s start with a little...
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Tweet …and this is where Manmohan Singh’s Independance day speech was drafted.
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Of late I have taken to hunting. In a big way. No fancy rifles for me. A Lakhani Hawai Chappal does a great job! The best part is that the more i kill, the more there seem to be. Its like the akshay patra of Mahabharata, the bowl that was always full of food. Somewhere...
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Indian kids are a very creative lot, going by the shortlisted entries out of several thousand submissions for the Google Doodle contest. Check out what India means to our young ones, and vote for your favorite design!
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Tweet All along i kept telling myself that your method of non violence was a silly concept that just delayed Independence. But today i feel that more than gaining independence it was the discipline that you taught your children that was your greatest gift. You united them all. The Punjabi, the Marathis, the Tamils,...
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Tweet The other day i was listening to the radio while returning from the office after the regular grind, and came across this very interesting exchange. So this guy called up the RJ (Radio Jockey), and they were talking. Bhai saab was an MBA student from FMS (which by the way, is one of...
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Tweet The Indian nation grows older by another year today. Happy Independence day. Let us all take a moment to reflect on what Independence means for us, and work on doing  our bit towards being responsible citizens of this great nation of ours. For once let’s stop cribbing about what is lacking with the...
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Tweet 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....
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Tweet 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...
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Tweet 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...
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