All ye couch potatoes nibbling on Paneer Tikka Masala and digging into Chicken 65, get off your couches NOW. And start walking if you want to keep your brains working well. Walking Slows Cognitive Decline A new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago says walking […]
Guilty – Tamil Peeping Tom Dharun Ravi Rutgers university freshman student Dharun Ravi of Plainsboro, New Jersey, is up shit-creek after Tyler Clementi, a room-mate Ravi allegedly viewed on a webcam having sex with a guy and then disclosed it on Twitter, committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. Ravi’s classmate Molly Wei […]
We’ve never been great fans of Indian IT giant Wipro’s Chairman Azim Premji. But tonight, as we slowly sip our White Russian into a stupor the old man Premji is our hero. Really. In a blistering attack penned in an Indian newspaper, Premji belatedly questions in rhetorical style the wisdom of a poor country like […]
Sick f*cks. 🙁 Where? Of course, in Incredible India. After the end of the Nazi era, where else would all the Sick f*cks of the world congregate, schmuck. Haven’t we said that ad nauseum, ad infinitum? We can’t open the Indian newspapers these days without reading of another sick, blood-chilling account of a ‘honor killing.’ […]
Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection English women only hope to find in their butlers. – Somerset Maugham in The Razor’s Edge p.164 Folks, The Razor’s Edge is another delightful book (at least, so far) by Somerset Maugham. As in Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence, we have a strong, unconventional […]
For all that has been written, civil society must answer for the deaths of innocents by outfits that do not respect democracy at all. – India’s Home Minister P. Chidambaram blaming civil rights activists after the second violent attack by Maoist Freedom Fighters in Dantewada. Source: Times of India Pushed to the wall by decades […]