Posts from ‘July, 2005’

Two blogs on the recent Mumbai deluge:
Cloudburst Mumbai – which is a site that shares experiences, views, news, analysis and stories.
Mumbai Help – a listing of everything that the Government’s Disaster Management team should be providing us!

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Over heard at a party yesterday:
whiney voice: but it is raining heavily!
bored response: what do you expect – it is monsoons.
The party was at Lavanya and Anand’s new place in Yari Road. Lots of people turned up. most had exciting rain stories to tell. Many had walked back through neck deep water. There was palpable [...]

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While administration and papers seem to be patting themselves on the back on ‘Mumbai limping back’ they haven’t said that it is at the pace and the steadiness of a mugged 90 year old who has been blind folded and has to find her way back home.
There is very little traffic on the roads. Most [...]

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Tuesday, 26th July, began like most other Tuesdays in my life. Wake up by 6.30 a.m. get ready to get to Peddar Road – and teach. Tuesday I was focusing on the role of media in creating a “collective conciousness”.
Post the lectures (2 and a half hours), there was to be a meeting at Sahara [...]

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Chin 0 Arab Hamara, Hindustan Hamara

Rehene ko Ghar Nahin Hai, Sara Jahan Hamara

The people who build Mumbai – taking a break from the monsoon, under the flyover enroute to film city.
The lines translated read:
China and Arabia are ours, India is ours
We don’t have a place to stay, the whole world is ours.
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… if the idea of doggy stylists, and cat psychologists touch a chord with you, then this is a story guaranteed to make you gooey eyed and say “tho’ thweet’. The world’s first government sponsored retirement home for chimps.
This past spring, in a secluded patch of forest in northwest Louisiana’s Caddo Parish, a singularly bizarre [...]

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This from Gizmodo, just what i need after a non stop fortnight of high pressured work:)

The legend reads:
Upon slipping inside the clamshell-chic device, users will find a variety of functions at their fingertips including everything from “Body Shampoo & Shower,” and “Sound Therapy,” to the decidedly Japanese “Seaweed Pack.”

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… says the Chief of the British Police, on his men shooting dead an unarmed Brazilian, in London.
I was talking to Bonti on mail in the UK, and basically asking her on how she and her family were after the bombings. She was fine, having missed the bombings by about 10 minutes, but she wrote [...]

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The Mumbai Mirror has replaced the ToI as my favourite Loo read. From this mornings’ Mumbai Mirror online (front page), the link reads – Ask the Sexpert :
* I have never had extramarital sex. Recently, I started flirting with our housemaid. We were about have sex (with her consent) but held back for the fear [...]

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…. reads the headline.
The story reads:
I’ve nothing to say about an association that ended for me a long time ago,” says Aishwarya Rai
“I cannot comment on any of the content in the tape or the ensuing debate and discussion. The matter has been taken over by the law. Let the legal system take its course”
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