India has many things to be ashamed of – entrenched corruption, pathetic basic infrastructure, frequent communal violence, abject poverty and chronic hunger of its many poor millions, to name just a few. But nothing is more shameful than the growing number of chronically hungry or undernourished people in the country. According to the Food and […]
Throughout history, smart people have devised so many clever and novel ways to waste time – wrestling, bull fighting, cock fighting, Tamil trash, Bollywood garbage, ogling, playing pocket billiards and that weird game cricket. But surely nothing can beat Google’s YouTube video site as the best designed time-wasting service ever. The latest comScore report released […]
Disgusting. The FBI today arrested Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (Democrat) for among other things conspiring to sell or trade President Elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat. Power for $$? President-Elect Obama resigned his Senate seat on November 16 after his victory in the presidential elections. Under Illinois law, the state Governor has the authority to name another […]
Holy Christ. Even our little birds of the night are starting to feel the icy palms of the the global recession on their warm little bodies. Our favorite newspaper New York Times has an interesting piece today on how the economic downturn has impacted sex tourism as far away as Prague. Gee, who’d have thought that […]
(U.S. Visitors: We’ve started a new category Deals that’ll highlight good promotions) Calling all desi coupon fiends in the U.S. – Tomorrow i.e. December 9, Domino’s Pizza is offering large 4-topping pizzas for just $8 if you order online at dominos.com. In these trying economic times, that’s a nice deal (we are sure some desi here […]
The Saffron shade is fading in Rajasthan with the ruling BJP receiving a whipping in the state assembly elections while the Congress significantly increased its tally and will most likely form the next government. What went wrong? The BJP leadership is blaming its poor performance on the candidate selection. But what about governance of the state […]