People often bitch and moan about how bad things are in India or that things are now deteriorating in the U.S. But few realize how much worse things are in so many other parts of the world like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Zimbabwe or in Western Africa. The New York Times has a P.1 story […]
Here’s another instalment of Incredible India featuring some of those only-in-India incredible stories: * This is weird. Shiv Sena, a political party in Maharashtra, is looking at selling a branded version of the vada paav snack called Shiv Vada Paav. What next? DMK Idli, AIADMK Pakoda, BJP Bajji, Congress Mysore Pak, BSP Jalebi, Akali Jamun, CPM Rosogolla…Here’s […]
Stalin (the original Russian guy not the duplicate local fella) did many things wrong. But Stalin did one thing right when he angrily yelled at Lenin’s wife Nadezhda Krupskaya that just because she used the same toilet as Lenin gave her no reason to interfere in party affairs. Similarly, just because some Sri Lankans speak […]
Here’s Take 2 of Incredible India containing some of those only-in-India incredible stories: * Priests at an Orissa temple performed a special purificatory ceremony after the visit of a Dalit minister. There must be a special place reserved in hell for the Brahmin swines who still engage in obnoxious discriminatory practices in many parts of […]
Folks, the long nightmare has ended. Barack Obama is now our President. The 44th President of the United States of America (the country, we and over a million other Indians now call home). The First African American President of the United States of America (one cannot even imagine the pain that Blacks have endured for […]
* You failed to stem the tide of good American jobs being outsourced to the Indian coolies * You failed to protect us on 9/11 * You failed to capture Osama Bin Laden * You failed to understand how badly the Guantanamo prison and the rendition policy of transporting abductees to third countries for torture […]