It Isn’t Just About Educating The Boys. Educate The Girls!!

I didn’t get to see Aamir Khan’s Satyamev Jayate this weekend. Truth is, I havent caught any of his episodes on TV yet. Saw the first one on the net, but thats about it. Anyway, so this week we had the curse of dowry as the raging issue. It is a very old and prevalent [...]

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Sab Maya Hai – Edition 2

I love Mayavati. I mean, how can you not?!! This Woman dominates like no other, thunders instead of talking, pays homage to herself and siphons off crores better than Ocean’s Eleven! Also, she provides me with a lot of blog fodder (and that, I must say, is her saving grace ) Anyway, since I’m a [...]

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WTH Statement Of the Day

Comes from a colleague of mine in office, an engineer by education and an IT personnel by profession. Age,22-23 years. “I’m grateful to my father for letting me live. He always wanted a son. So he had my mother tested when she was pregnant. When he found out it was a girl, though others asked him to [...]

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The Wrong Turn

I was out shopping last Saturday. I’m off to Bangalore this weekend with the twins for a two-week vacation to meet the parents and siblings. Aapa and her kids are coming along too. Needless to say, I’m frantically shopping at the last minute to grab goodies for the people back home. This time, I thought [...]

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O(b/s)ama and Me

I could write a funny little couplet with the three characters , Obama, Osama and me, but I won’t. Because though funny thoughts do creep up my mind, what I’m posting today is far from it. I’ll be writing about Osama and how he changed my life. I’ll mention Obama, who must have have faced [...]

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“You must be rooting for Pak, right? “

Ho Hum Yaaawn. Another day, another match (India-Pak, to be precise) and another round of questions. Clearly, my being a muslim puts a BIG question mark on my loyalties. I guess I started hating this game when a colleague at work asked me to go back to Pakistan because India had lost a match to [...]

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Bribe Bandh | I PAID A BRIBE

Bribe Bandh | I PAID A BRIBE. JANAAGRAHA  ipaidabribe.com        2011 –  Tahrir Square - Egypt revolutionized       2011 –  Bribe Bandh -   Revolutionizes India   BRIBE BANDH                Your CLick  starts the   Revolution          

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Boot Polish and Bandook

By now, we’ve all heard/read reports the  Great shoe-cleaning incident . Going by Mayavati’s total nonchalance while the security officer went about his ‘job’, we can safely assume that it wasn’t the first time Maya Devi had her shoes cleaned publicly. If the media snapped up the event this time, their bad luck!! After all, what’s [...]

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Dont judge a book….

…you know the rest Kind of apt for a situation I encountered recently. One thing I abhor about Pune is the tendency of consuming tobacco. I see kids as young as 10-12 years old chomping on it. Travelling in the city’s public transport is hell not only because of the stench emanating from the jaws [...]

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“God loveth the clean” – The Quran,Chap-IX

A high-ranking official’s (in)famous comment on Indian hygeine at the recently concluded Commonwealth games had the nation in a furore. Though the poor gentleman wasn’t wrong in what he said, the issue is that he said it. In public. In front of the foreign media. India never ranked high on the hygeine list anyway. But [...]

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