Ouch
September 14, 2005Happiness was writ large on Nitin’s face as he slipped into his wedding dress. In few hours from now, the girl of my dreams would be my wife, he thought. Little did he realise that the same girl, whom he had courted…
The School that Failed
September 12, 2005A story from the ToI about caste. Students in a school in Bihar refusing to eat mid-day meals cooked by Dalit Women. The incident occurred in the village of former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur, a staunch socialist and champion of social…
The Spirit of 9/11
September 11, 2005George W Bush is hoping that the spirit of 9-11will help him get out of the mess that his administration’s ineptitude has landed him in. Imagine a government so incompetent, that it makes Vilasrao Deshmukh look good! I wonder whether invoking the…
Bharateeya BlogMela – a round up
September 9, 2005The Day has arrived. And after an extensive search through Indian blogdom – this week’s Bharateeya Blog Mela is finally in place. Thank you for all those who nominated. And as usual, this task would have been chaotic without Bloglines. Announcements JK…
Am Home
September 8, 2005The surgery was successful. i checked into the hospital at around 9 in the morning. By 10 am met the Anesthetist. Two of the most jolly people that you can meet. They explained the procedure to me. And said that i will…
D-day
September 6, 2005Tomorrow is D-day. I go in for my lapsroscopic surgery to get out my gallbladder. I have learnt more about gallbladders and liver and other body parts than i ever wanted to know. in fact, if i was really curious about any…
Where Parvati cannot sing for Shiva
September 6, 2005One of the saddest stories that I have read in a long time was the furore over singer Parvati Khan being prevented from singing at the sacred Jyotirlingas. The temple loves her music but not the fact that her husband is a…
Oh To Be Poor …
September 6, 2005Our poor and their poor are two different things. Everytime I fill out one of these online thingees that ask for annual income I compute my Indian income into dollars and check the correct amount – I don’t use purchasing power parity…
Theogony of Gods
September 4, 2005My current read is Karen Armstrong’s History of God . Theogony has always fascinated me. So has how Gods are born, grow unfashionable and then die out. . It is almost a peek back into society and figuring out how society evolved…
Using Social Software for a Car Pool
September 3, 2005Sid from Patang.org has a great new social software in place. And unlike the rest which use fluffly terms like networking, and community – this actually does something tangible. It is a car pool for people who live in a geographical area….