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Last updated on May 14, 2008 22:55:01. ET
Top Reasons to be a Blogger
She could go around replying to questions like “mera pass bangla hai, gaadi hai, paisa hai, tumahre pass kya hai” saying “mere pass blog hai !!” , it could also help her buy vegetables more efficiently “barabar tol ke dena warna blog kardoongi”
We never tire of reading blogs that talk about reasons to blog. TamBramRed [...]
DesiPundit | May 14, 10:00 pm ET
On Role Models
Ever been a role model? Or atleast been forced by your parents to aspire to a certain someone in the family (or the extended family)?
Asal Tamizh Penn takes us on a journey through her entire clan (well, almost), discussing role models and the absolute duds, in a beautiful write-up that one could really relate [...]
DesiPundit | May 14, 6:33 pm ET
Where are India’s Innovative Companies?
India can lead the way because it now knows how to develop global solutions that work on a very large scale, especially those that are technology intensive (witness India’s response to Y2K). Interestingly, India still is a chaotic, third world country, so it understands the need to adapt First World solutions to the chaotic environment [...]
DesiPundit | May 14, 3:29 pm ET
Why did they bomb Jaipur?
So why did the terrorists bomb Jaipur yesterday? There is really no good answer to this question, for who knows why people do such senseless things. But Nitin speculates on some possible reasons for the timing.
2. Like B Raman has argued, the bombing was related to the tenth anniversary of Pokhran-II. That’s why they chose [...]
DesiPundit | May 14, 3:25 pm ET
Bombay…err…Mumbai
BVN takes a dig on the Mumbaisation of Bombay by Shiv Sena.
Talkies editorial syndicate met at our super secret location and unanimously agreed (1-0) to take the cue. The 10 AM press release has announced drastic changes to the Blogroll.
1. Bombay Addict and Bombay Dosti will be renamed as Mumbai Addict and Mumbai Dosti. They [...]
DesiPundit | May 14, 2:08 pm ET
Irresponsible Philosophy!
Can Pascal's Wager be applied to the Global Climate Change debate?
Geekwerks | May 14, 1:03 pm ET
Energy Source
This is surely the invention of the year:
A solar powered bra that can charge a phone
So if you boys ever spot a chica wearing one of these, walk up to her, rest your palm on her device and say: “Is this a solar panel or am I turning you on?”
Damn, that is so bad I feel like slapping myself.
(Link via email from Chandoo.)
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The India Uncut Blog | May 14, 9:28 am ET
Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?
This is a fun test. I got 9/10, and was told at the end of it: “You’d spot Hannibal Lector in seconds at an Open Source conference. Your liver’s safe.”
Well, I’ve never been to an Open Source conference, but if there are livers on offer… muhahahaha.
(Link via email from Santosh of UberDesi.com.)
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The India Uncut Blog | May 14, 9:12 am ET
The Power of Blogging
This is an interesting piece of reportage:
Mithun would never speak out openly against Amitabh and fear incurring his wrath especially now that he has started blogging.
Ignore the grammar—that sentence confirms what I’ve always suspected: Blogging is a powerful tool in the hands of the powerful. That means little for the rest of us, who blog to indulge ourselves. There’s nothing wrong with that at all. What else is life about?
(Link via email from Rajeev Mantri.)
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The India Uncut Blog | May 13, 7:06 pm ET
The Liberalisation of Indian Cricket
"The IPL shows it is time to liberalise cricket,” wrote my friend Barun Mitra of Liberty Institute in a recent email, and the thought is echoed by Neelakantan of Interim Thoughts, who draws a comparison between the IPL and what liberalisation did to the IT industry in the 1990s.
Needless to say, I agree with them—though I wish the extent of both liberalisations was greater. Just as the government retains a stranglehold over many areas of our lives, the BCCI retains its monopoly over representative cricket. Deeper change will be a long time coming—though I’m grateful for the little that
The India Uncut Blog | May 13, 6:49 pm ET
Mr Vengsarkar’s Just Woken Up
Here’s the WTF headline of the day:
Selectors likely to watch second half of IPL
Why on earth weren’t they watching the first half?
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The India Uncut Blog | May 13, 6:16 pm ET
Random signboard
At the Metro construction site in Saket. Not sure what it means but it sounds profound in an awkward sort of way.Those boards you see towards the left contain elaborately detailed commandments - lists of dos and don'ts - for the construction workers. Very impressive stuff, such as "Kindly do not accept drugs and alcohol from strange persons".
Jabberwock | May 13, 4:00 pm ET
Iron Man
This was a match made in heaven - Robert Downey Jr. playing Tony Stark. Downey's natural sass is one of the mot under-utilized resources in Hollywood, mainly due to his own problems. I have always wondered how he would have played Daniel Ocean, because no matter how suave Clooney is, he just doesn't measure up to Downey in terms of original ratpackishness. Tony Stark is as close an approximation as is possible to answer that question. Splendid performance.From a natural casting to major cognitive dissonance. "Pure" villains are uncommon these days. Villains are now given some sort of a gray
Vantage point | May 11, 4:00 pm ET
Frida
Wandering through the Philadelphia Art Museum's exhibition of the paintings of Frida Kahlo last Thursday, I couldn't help think of the similarities between Kahlo's work and Courbet's. Both are artists deeply invested in their self-image, to the point where their work, were it not for its brilliance, would seem like egoism. Both are concerned with being unconventional, and with shaking up their respective establishments. Both are passionately fond of the landscapes they grew up in, and delight in using these scenes as a setting for their work. And both are interested, in their own ways, in depictions of the female
2x3x7 | May 10, 4:00 pm ET
Making Use of Big Brother
If you want to make a music video, but can not afford any filming equipment, what do you do? A band from Manchester hit upon an ingenious idea. Unable to afford a proper camera crew and equipment, The Get Out Clause, an unsigned band from the city, decided to make use of the cameras seen all over British streets.With an estimated 13 million CCTV cameras in Britain, suitable locations were not hard to come by.They set up their equipment, drum kit and all, in eighty locations around Manchester – including on a bus – and proceeded to play to the
Vantage point | May 9, 4:00 pm ET
Guest Post: Fighting Inflation The Wrong Way
V Anantha Nageswaran
A table of inflation rates in many countries around the world is beginning to reveal a disturbing picture. The lowest rate is found in Germany – at 3.0%. Many emerging countries that seem to be doing a truthful job are reporting inflation rates in excess of 10% and some in excess of 20%. [...]
The Indian Economy Blog | May 9, 4:31 am ET
A few notes on The Seven Samurai
Last week I treated myself to a couple of mini-film festivals at home, watching (mostly re-watching) a few films of a particular director or actor. The honorees included James Stewart (whose birth centenary is next week) and Akira Kurosawa, and the festival high point, apart from re-experiencing the gorgeousness of Vertigo in its restored print, was watching The Seven Samurai after many years. It was like catching up with old friends. Jaded film buffs often tend to undermine a director’s iconic movies in favour of less-discussed works, but I can’t get over what a timelessly awesome film The Seven Samurai
Jabberwock | May 8, 4:00 pm ET
Hillary's Shifting Goalposts
Every time something goes against her plan, Hillary or her campaign comes up with a new metric, or parameter or definition of success. After losing North Carolina heavily and winning Indiana only narrowly, she and her supporters quoted Obama out of context saying "Indiana will be a tie-breaker" and proclaimed victory. But there now seems to be an air of inevitability around Obama. Even the media which unrealistically pretended this race was alive, seems to be giving up. But Hillary keeps shifting goalposts.Here is an excellent compilation of her goalpost-shiftiness. When you boil it all down, in determining the Democratic
Vantage point | May 7, 4:00 pm ET
165 licenses
The Four Seasons launches in Mumbai.
This bit is stunning -
Bureaucracy and a shortage of skilled workers make building hotels difficult - the opening of the Four Seasons was delayed by at least two years. The hotel needed 165 government permits - including a special licence for the vegetable weighing scale in the kitchen and one [...]
The Indian Economy Blog | May 7, 8:31 am ET
Roads less traveled
[From my Metro Now column – another in a series of trying-hard-to-be-optimistic pieces about the traffic situation in Delhi]Every dark cloud has a silver lining, we are constantly told, but the adage forgets to add that at times the lining must be surgically attached. This can be accomplished by grabbing the squirming cloud, pinning it to the ground, stitching the silver lining painfully into its side and then adding a few layers of cellotape as extra precaution.The silver lining for the satirically named “bus rapid transit” corridor – a cloud that has been brooding above Delhi for the last few
Jabberwock | May 6, 4:00 pm ET
Fareed Zakaria's Latest: "The Post-American World"
Amardeep Singh | May 6, 4:00 pm ET
Wright Off
While I've largely stopped paying attention to the farce that the contest for the Democratic nomination has turned into, I can't help commenting on the Rev. Wright controversy and Obama's response to it.The general consensus, at least among Obama's critics, seems to be that in finally coming out and explicitly condemning Rev. Wright for his ridiculous remarks Obama is going against his natural inclination in deference to public opinion polls. He is, in other words, playing politics - choosing to distance himself from a figure who has clearly become a political liability - and that his 'real' feelings were those
2x3x7 | May 6, 4:00 pm ET
DVD subtitles: He become skinny, punctual and don’t wanna die
The text on some DVD covers is bad enough, as previously noted, but what’s on the actual disc can be much worse. Can anyone tell me why the English subtitles on old Japanese films are consistently ludicrous? This is something I first discovered while watching Star Movies’ “100 Years of Cinema” telecasts in the early 1990s, and it hasn’t changed through years of going to film festivals/DVD-watching. Even the discs produced by the British Film Institute have subtitles that appear to have been written by someone who took a crash course in Japanese and English the previous weekend and is
Jabberwock | May 4, 4:00 pm ET
"The Age of Shiva" -- a Review
Amardeep Singh | May 4, 4:00 pm ET
Courbet at the Met
Was in NYC over the weekend, checking out (among other things) the Courbet exhibit at the Met, and was amused to find this painting tucked coyly away in a dimly lit gallery with a sign outside it warning visitors that the section contained explicit sexual images.I suppose the Met has all sorts of legal issues it needs to be concerned about, but I can't help wondering how Courbet would have felt about such prudishness. I mean, it kind of destroys the point, doesn't it?To begin with, the exhibition seemed a little underwhelming. Courbet's portraits - which make up the first
2x3x7 | May 4, 4:00 pm ET
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