Topic: desipundit

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The Importance of Raj Thackeray
Ram Kadam, the mustachioed warrior out to protect Marathi Asmita assaulted Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Azmi while the latter was taking his oath as member of the Maharashtra assembly. The reason was that Azmi refused to pay any heed to the MNS warning to all...

15 hours ago

Google Reader | Topics: DesiPundit, Happenings, Politics | Add google reader to your profile

Santosh posted a blog entry

Paging a desi Lou Dobbs
Globalization, India. India, globalization. [Outlook]Thousands of undocumented workers with the same skill sets as the local...

24 hours ago

uber desi dot com | Topics: Business, DesiPundit

braineel66 posted a blog entry

A history of social networks...
Humans have always craved attention from other human beings (or their profiles these days). But to think that this is a new...

2 days ago

interim thoughts | Topics: humour, DesiPundit

Patrix posted a blog entry

Defending Marathi Manoos?
Raj Thackeray and his bunch of goons have taken up the mantle of defending the rights of Marathi manoos (people) in strange and...

2 days ago

Nerve Endings Firing Away | Topics: 9rules, DesiPundit, Governance, Politicking

Nitajk posted a blog entry

Should women spend their income on family expenses?
I believe that feel this issue of women being reluctant to share their income is also about personalities and not just about...

3 days ago

My Writings | Topics: Culture, DesiPundit, Family, India

desinole posted a blog entry

Paging a desi Lou Dobbs
Globalization, India. India, globalization. [Outlook]Thousands of undocumented workers with the same skill sets as the local...

3 days ago

uber desi dot com | Topics: Business, DesiPundit

Santosh posted a blog entry

Paging a desi Lou Dobbs
Globalization, India. India, globalization. [Outlook]Thousands of undocumented workers with the same skill sets as the local...

3 days ago

uber desi dot com | Topics: Business, DesiPundit

The Rational Fool posted a blog entry

Did Nidal Hasan Act Alone?
Of course not.Major Nidal Malik Hasan had his parents alongside him. His parents who had compelled him to follow their faith,...

3 days ago

The Rational Fool | Topics: Islam, law, DesiPundit, abortion

N posted a blog entry

Storm in a T-Cup & The Language of Experience
PENELOPE TRUNK CAUSED A tremendous controversy when she Tweeted about her miscarriage (and the fact that she was glad she...

4 days ago

Ultra Violet | Topics: Art, Culture, Desipundit, Identity and...

The Rational Fool posted a blog entry

Faithcare Bill?
After having been relentlessly bombarded by the politicians and the media with facts and fiction about the bane of pre-existent...

6 days ago

The Rational Fool | Topics: law, medicine, DesiPundit

desinole posted a blog entry

The Ghost, and the Darkness ate 35 people (only).
You may have heard of the movies ‘Bwana Devil’ (first American 3-D Color movie) and ‘The Ghost and The...

8 days ago

uber desi dot com | Topics: DesiPundit, History, Movies, Science

Santosh posted a blog entry

The Ghost, and the Darkness ate 35 people (only).
You may have heard of the movies ‘Bwana Devil’ (first American 3-D Color movie) and ‘The Ghost and The...

8 days ago

uber desi dot com | Topics: DesiPundit, History, Movies, Science

Lekhni posted a blog entry

Were the Aryans cattle thieves?
Were they the world’s first cattle-rustlers and cowboys? The historian Wendy Doniger thinks they were.I am currently...

8 days ago

The Imagined Universe | Topics: DesiPundit, Featured, India, Aryan

Nitajk posted a blog entry

Where do developmental funds go?
15 years ago the Indian economy kick started but the bad news is that the north eastern states (and some others) didn’t ride...

8 days ago

My Writings | Topics: Business, Corruption, DesiPundit, Development

Brown Paper posted a blog entry

Love, Pray, Eat (dessert): Lucky Everyday by Bapsy Jain
A beautiful twenty-something Indian chartered accountant teaches yoga to prisoners at a New York state penitentiary.I knew I...

8 days ago

Brown Paper | Topics: DesiPundit, India, Reviews, Bapsy Jain

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London Dreams Movie Review
This is an average film for those who don’t mind a bizarre story, sitting through a long (almost three hours) film and Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan, the two lead characters. For those who shy away from Bollywood kitsch, this film is bad.The major...

9 days ago

Google Reader | Topics: Bollywood, DesiPundit, Entertainment, Movie Reviews | Add google reader to your profile

Nitajk posted a blog entry

London Dreams Movie Review
This is an average film for those who don’t mind a bizarre story, sitting through a long (almost three hours) film and Salman...

11 days ago

My Writings | Topics: Bollywood, DesiPundit, Entertainment, Movie Reviews

desinole posted a blog entry

www.ऊबरदेशी.com
This may soon be a reality!Hebrew, Hindi, other scripts get Web address nod . LinkICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned...

12 days ago

uber desi dot com | Topics: DesiPundit, Technology, world, domain names

Santosh posted a blog entry

www.ऊबरदेशी.com
This may soon be a reality!Hebrew, Hindi, other scripts get Web address nod . LinkICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned...

12 days ago

uber desi dot com | Topics: DesiPundit, Technology, world, domain names

Nitajk posted a blog entry

What are China’s intentions towards India?
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh just met the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and they talked peace. Strangely, there was no mention...

14 days ago

My Writings | Topics: China, DesiPundit, India, North-East

N posted a blog entry

Two poems
By Lalit NarayanMiscarriageA curtain of rain separatesMy verandah from the hospital.On any other day a hundredSilent...

14 days ago

Ultra Violet | Topics: Desipundit, Our Bodies, Poetry, Violence Against...

Brown Paper posted a blog entry

Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup
The linchpin of Vikas Swarup’s Q&A (better known as Slumdog Millionaire) was coincidence — twenty of them, to...

15 days ago

Brown Paper | Topics: DesiPundit, India, Reviews, Book

desinole posted a blog entry

The Secretary ad
Link via Chicago TribuneChicago based Samir Zia Chowan [sic](Chowhan), an immigration attorney, lists an ad for a secretary in...

15 days ago

uber desi dot com | Topics: Crime, DesiPundit, Maccaca..., chicago

krishashok posted a blog entry

Kaka Kronicles: A Universe from Nothing
I saw this video.Then I saw two crows (presumably the ones that dispossessed my neighbour’s Labrador of his biscuit)...

16 days ago

Doing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa | Topics: DesiPundit, kaka..., kaka, physics

Nitajk posted a blog entry

Nature undisturbed
I love nature and nothing gives me more peace that being under the bare sky with nothing in sight except pure nature. The...

16 days ago

My Writings | Topics: DesiPundit, Environment, Photography, Travel

N posted a blog entry

Becoming Woman
ALL I KNEW WAS that this non-profit group called MARAA was organising some sort of performance on gender and sexuality. A...

17 days ago

Ultra Violet | Topics: Desipundit, Gender, Identity and..., Media

Shripriya posted a blog entry

NYU, Tisch School of the Arts
I liked NYU because it was focused on production. It is also focused on the independent film and not on the Hollywood system....

17 days ago

Almost As Good As Chocolate | Topics: DesiPundit, Tatvam

Shripriya posted a blog entry

NYU, Tisch School of the Arts
I liked NYU because it was focused on production. It is also focused on the independent film and not on the Hollywood system....

17 days ago

Tatvam Productions | Topics: DesiPundit, NYU Tisch

nikhilnarayanan posted a blog entry

Travelogue:Thanjavur and Brihadishwara temple
[Part 1 of the Tanjore/Thanjavur-Srirangam-Trichy travelogue]Having overloaded myself with information on Tanjore/Thanjavur, I...

17 days ago

Nikhil | Topics: History, travel, big temple, brihadishwara

Pragmatic posted a blog entry

RIN Mutiny, February 1946
It must be around the same time that the RIN mutiny, which the British refused to call a strike, would have been rechristened...

18 days ago

Pragmatic Euphony | Topics: DesiPundit, Military..., Navy

Brown Paper posted a blog entry

The expat’s new shoes: Bata Hawaii chappals
Jil Wheeler’s Letter from Mumbai isn’t offensive this time around, just poorly informed. In “The...

20 days ago

Brown Paper | Topics: DesiPundit, India, Random, Bata

N posted a blog entry

Single in the City
By Ramapriya GopalakrishnanLeafing through pictures mailed by a friend, I find one of me on the beach laughing uninhibitedly...

21 days ago

Ultra Violet | Topics: Culture, Desipundit, Marriage, Morality

Abi posted a blog entry

Is JEE rank a prize?
It's fair to say that JEE has strayed too far from what most of us would agree should be its real mandate: standardization...

21 days ago

nanopolitan | Topics: Entrance..., IITs, DesiPundit

BongoPondit posted a blog entry

Shoddy journalism by Sagarika Ghose on Global Warming
Last night on her Twitter account, Indian journalist Sagarika Ghose posted the following:Is even the science of climate change...

21 days ago

Recurring Decimals..... | Topics: Desi..., DesiPundit, India, Rants

The Rational Fool posted a blog entry

Guess Who's Hosting the State Dinner
I am the proud new grandparent of a baby girl — let me name her Anamika — born to my daughter a few weeks ago, and...

24 days ago

The Rational Fool | Topics: law, hitandrun, DesiPundit

BongoPondit posted a blog entry

FCB: Gourmet 50’s Cocktails – Frangipani
Not sure if it is related to their upcoming demise, but Gourmet magazine online is doing a feature where they publish their 20...

26 days ago

Recurring Decimals..... | Topics: DesiPundit, Food, Fun, Martinis

krishashok posted a blog entry

Dear Lonely Planet
Dear Lonely PlanetI came across your entry for Chennai (Madras), and like a responsible citizen coming across a crumpled,...

27 days ago

Doing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa | Topics: DesiPundit, gilma, namma ooru..., amit

Santosh posted a blog entry

White House Diwali - why so touchy?
Rediff reports:Obama’s Diwali celebration upsets Indian-American community.Here’s the back story - ex-president...

28 days ago

uber desi dot com | Topics: Brown in..., Culture, DesiPundit, Humor

desinole posted a blog entry

Whitehouse Diwali - why so touchy?
Rediff reports:Obama’s Diwali celebration upsets Indian-American community.Here’s the back story - ex-president...

28 days ago

uber desi dot com | Topics: Brown in..., Culture, DesiPundit, Humor

N posted a blog entry

The Women’s Reservation Bill – Empowerment or Besides the Point?
By Martin Lehmann-WaldauThe Indian parliament recently showed intense activity to promote women’s representation in...

28 days ago

Ultra Violet | Topics: Desipundit, Institutions, Law, Politics

Lekhni posted a blog entry

India and the Human Development Index
There’s the usual hand-wringing in the Indian newspapers today about India being 134 (among 182 countries) in the Human...

36 days ago

The Imagined Universe | Topics: DesiPundit, India, Opinion

nikhilnarayanan posted a blog entry

SUPW
For years, none of us knew why we had the bench vice on that table; not that we knew it was called a vice.John sir’s...

37 days ago

Nikhil | Topics: nostalgia, school, candle making, chalk making

Brown Paper posted a blog entry

The Indian diaspora: When? Why? Where? And, what next?
Writer Minal Hajratwala takes an in-depth look at the evolution of the global Indian diaspora through the lens of her own...

37 days ago

Brown Paper | Topics: DesiPundit, India, interviews, Bookslut

N posted a blog entry

It’s A Bad Ad World
LATELY, WHILE CHANNEL SURFING, I came across two advertisements, prominently aired in prime time slots that went something like...

38 days ago

Ultra Violet | Topics: Books, Celebrating..., Desipundit, Gender

Brown Paper posted a blog entry

Writers Against Racism: Uma Krishnaswami
Uma Krishnaswami is the India-born, New Mexico-based author of several widely-praised children’s books (Chachaji’s...

42 days ago

Brown Paper | Topics: DesiPundit, India, Indian..., "Writers Against...

braineel66 posted a blog entry

Electric cars, how soon?
I had a discussion with the other blogger here (largely dormant) on whether Electric cars will rule the roost very soon? And...

47 days ago

interim thoughts | Topics: automobile, DesiPundit

Brown Paper posted a blog entry

Not just another book list.
Wasafiri magazine polled 25 international writers (including Indra Sinha, Amit Chaudhuri and Chika Unigwe) to find the most...

47 days ago

Brown Paper | Topics: DesiPundit, India, lists, Book Lists

Abi posted a blog entry

Half-truths and Harvard comparisons: The Curious Arguments in IIM-A pay hike demands
The memorandum submitted by the IIM-A faculty council irritated the hell out of me. It doesn't take much effort to conclude --...

50 days ago

nanopolitan | Topics: IITs, DesiPundit, IIMs

The Rational Fool posted a blog entry

Christian Gene
As the Indian government struggles to take a politically correct position on the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which...

54 days ago

The Rational Fool | Topics: homosexuality, humor, religion, hitandrun

N posted a blog entry

Women and “our” housework
LAST SUNDAY, we had a couple of close friends over for lunch. As it happens with close friends whom one has not met for a long...

57 days ago

Ultra Violet | Topics: Desipundit, Gender, Marriage, Relationships

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