India is currently experiencing double-digit inflation. The pundits are busy with their verbal breaking wind as to how the economy is doomed and the common man is made to more than the situation demands, with the current rate of inflation hovering around 11%.
But Indians can breathe with equanimity and draw solace from the fact that [...]
Here is a news item in today’s Hindustan Times, a national daily from Delhi, India:
Two grilled or driving close to Priyanka’s motorcade
POLICE INTERROGATED two young men for over three hours when they accidentally drove close to the convoy of Priyanka Gandhi and her husband Robert Vadra near Safdarjung’s tomb early Sunday. One of the Personal [...]
Here is an excerpt from an email message ostensibly from a lady of Chennai, India seeking some special kind of services:-
attractive/fun/intelligent/extrovert/slim/lady seeks expats for ltr - 45 (chennai)
Reply to: xxx@craigslist.org
Date: xxx
Hello!
i’m in my 40’s and am currently living in chennai. i’m divorced and have lived in the us for several yrs.i have no kids. responses [...]
Rediff.com poses a very pertinent question, “Is terrorism becoming as common as a case of theft?” in its well-documented essay with an outrageous title, “In India, we don’t catch terrorists“!
Read the complete article by clicking on the link above. Sad reading indeed.
Almost the whole of India is tottering in electricity crisis. There are reports of “power riots” in and around Delhi, the capital of india, according to Hindustan Times a leading newspaper from the capital:
People have had enough. Tired of long and frequent power cuts and false promises of improvement, people in the Capital and Gurgaon [...]
Two news items appeared in the Times of India newspaper, Chennai edition on 18th April, 2008. Both are about the image of police in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
Here is the first one:-
LEGAL NOTICE TO FILM-MAKERS
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: A senior police officer in the city has slapped a legal notice on the producer and [...]
It is castestan aka Indian Union of castes - “IUC”, pronounced Yuck, avers Manas Chakravarty, in Hindustan Times.
Here is his eminently witty parody on the highly casteist 27% reservation for OBCs in India. (For folks from another part of the globe, India is a funny country where each group would perennially be clamouring for something [...]
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