This looks like one of those Only in America stories. But one that Mohandas Gandhi would have approved of and eagerly embraced (more on that later). We all know how crazy Americans are about their coupons. They use it at restaurants and grocery stores, to buy dog and cat food, for manicures, pedicures, movie tickets, […]
It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife. – Mohandas Gandhi, writing in India Opinion. Source: Independent
No question about it. The 2005 Bollywood movie Dosti – Friends Forever (Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol, Kareena Kapoor, Lara Dutta) was a mediocre piece of shit. Hellooo, anyone surprised? But for reasons that we can’t fathom the Dulhania, Dulhania song from the film struck a chord with us. We’ve lost track of the number of […]
In all fairness, Chapter 2 of Lelyveld’s book Great Soul should rightly be described as the Latrine and Feces Chapter given its preoccupation with turds. So, if you are the sort that gets a hard-on by how Gandhi was repulsed by the stench of the human shit at the Calcutta session of the Indian National […]
Being at a loose end this morning, we headed to a desi grocery store in the area and purchased this popular Indian snack. But the 99-cent snack tasted so awful (smelly, pasty maida flour and potatoes inside) that we trashed it. Fortunately, we’d taken some pictures earlier and decided to draw some value from it […]
I believe in walking alone. I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone, when the time comes. – Mohandas Gandhi, echoing words from a song by the poet Rabindranath Tagore, quoted in Great Soul by Joseph Lelyveld p.7 By now, […]