Stuff that made me - in no particular order - think, chortle, smirk, snigger , slurp, nod my head wisely, with sorrow, and in a wtf mode. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to figure:

a) The Gender Divide exists in the work place in the US - not only in terms of salaries, but also in terms of power & decision making. There are surveys and action to back it up there, here it just happens. I was once told by a former (female) boss that a less experienced colleague was getting paid more than me - because he is the breadwinner. and because he had a family. I am female & single seriously).

b) The Great Fat Indian Wedding - at the BBC. They don’t quite know what to make of the former colony gone successful and rich. I sometimes think that they preferred it when we were poor & broke. That discomfort is definitely still there. Kind of the upper caste liberal discomfort when they have to share a table with the lower caste upwardly mobile. If it wasn’t so embarrassing to watch … it would be funny.

c) Would you pull the switch ? - a look back on the Stanley Milgram’s experiment’s

In a series of about 20 experiments, hundreds of decent, well-intentioned people agreed to deliver what appeared to be increasingly painful electric shocks to another person, as part of what they thought was a learning experiment. The “learner” was in fact an actor, usually seated out of sight in an adjacent room, pretending to be zapped.

and its link to violation of prisoners’ human rights.

d) News ‘wet’ dreams - Kay from Noose Media looks at the transference of political opinion in news reports.

e) Jabberwock’s review of Mahabharat is as entertaining as the series. I must admit that despite the kitsch i’m hooked by the series