WTF is this Pub Culture?

Indian buffoons of various hues including B.S.Yediyurappa (Karnataka Chief Minister), Ashok Chavan (Maharashtra Chief Minister), Anbumani Ramadoss (Union Health Minister), Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan Chief Minister), RSS secretary K.Narahari et al have been ranting and raving, fretting and fuming against the ‘Pub Culture’ after the unsavory incident in Mangalore where women customers were beaten up by biped […]

Incredible India 6 – Great Indian Navels

This instalment of Incredible India focuses on the Indian idee fixe with navels of our women. For purely titillating reasons, Indian movie-makers and moviegoers have been fixated on the navels of our girls for several decades. When you can’t show the mountains above or the valley below in their god-created pristine form, what else is […]

Obama Says ‘No’ to Vikram’s New Toy

After universal condemnation and ridicule, the Vikram Pandit-headed Citigroup cancelled the order for its new $50 million corporate jet. Hooray! Sorry, Vikram. Not for You Asked about the luxury jet, President Barack Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs said the President “doesn’t believe that is the best use of money at this point.”  Besides President Obama, the […]

More Accolades for Slumdog; Keep ‘Em Coming

We love it. Just love it. Oh, we mean the awards for the non-Bollywood masterpiece from India – Slumdog Millionaire. This time, the fine movie picked up the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Motion Picture (akin to a Best Picture award). Anil Kapoor, who plays the quiz-show host in the […]

Incredible India – 4

Folks, here comes the fourth instalment of Incredible India with those only-in-India stories. * Ram’s Monkeys Run Amok in Mangalore Pub. A bunch of thugs belonging to the Shri Ram Sena attacked some girls in the coastal city of Mangalore in the South Indian state of Karnataka. Why? Because the girls were having a good […]

Got a Pretty Face, Here’s a Padma Shri

Back in the ol’ days, they used to give Padma Shri and Tamrapatra awards for real achievements. Now, the Government of India has started bestowing awards merely for the accident of being born with the right sequence of DNA or right genes, which we presume ultimately decide how you look. How else can you explain […]

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