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Last updated on March 11, 2010 12:10:34. ET
Buttery Buckwheat Nibby Cookies
Or rather, these should be called dangerously buttery buckwheat nibby cookies. I’ve made this cookie recipe a few times ever since my friend Kishi sent me a bag of Valrhona cacao nibs and they’ve been a hit every single time. These buckwhe...
DesiPundit | March 11, 2:40 pm ET
Book Review : The case of the missing servant
I’m a big who-dun-it fan. Poirot is my favorite detective of all, followed by Precious Ramotswe and Sherlock Holmes. Poirot is Poirot because of all his eccentricities, so when I read of a desi equivalent, it piqued my curiosity. In this book, Tarqui...
DesiPundit | March 11, 2:10 pm ET
Rajya Sabha finally passes women's Reservation Bill
The passage of the womens reservation bill providing for 33% reservation for women in the Rajya Sabha is indeed a historic moment every Indian should be proud of. The jubilant scenes of women, across the country, celebrating the passage of the bill...
India Blog Watch | March 11, 6:54 am ET
Users Ignoring Google’s Real-Time Search Listings
Did Google err by paying twitter big money for the right to publish tweets in their search.
Geekwerks | March 10, 11:24 pm ET
Fallacy of Using Identity as an Ideological Label
A backgrounder on this series of posts in the run up to the Open Call to Debate on Challenging Left Liberalism, can be found here. The first in this series of posts defining Left Liberalism can be found here. To recap from the last post, it was propose...
DesiPundit | March 10, 10:30 pm ET
Google Leads February Search Traffic; Facebook Gains
Google still enjoys a big lead in market share in search.
Geekwerks | March 10, 7:44 pm ET
A rubbery excursion
On the drive back from the hills of Vayannad, where we'd spent four restful days at a homestay, our vehicle - a Toyota Qualis - broke down. Someone passing by noticed smoke below our car; we stopped immediately. After a cursory look behind the wheels f...
DesiPundit | March 10, 6:05 pm ET
The Empire Strikes Back
Daniel Pepper of CMS has a worrying story up on how RTI activists in India are increasingly facing a backlash from the people they are trying to expose. He tells us about Ajay Kumar, who questioned “why a local politician had authorized the construction of private houses and shops on public land.” Consequently, Kumar was “attacked by a mob of two dozen” and “beaten in the head repeatedly by an iron rod, leaving him unconscious and bleeding profusely.” At least he lived. On Valentine’s Day in Bihar, “well-known RTI activist Shashidhar Mishra was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on motorcycles at
The India Uncut Blog | March 10, 3:51 pm ET
Come, Before Evening Falls by Manjul Bajaj
Come, Before Evening Falls takes place in the village of Kaala Saand in Punjab in 1910, and features characters belong to the Jat(t) community, an agrarian sect with a long tradition of working in the armed forces. I was agreeably surprised by thi...
DesiPundit | March 10, 2:08 pm ET
Video: A Waterfall in Coorg
This is a small waterfall inside a coffee estate, about 40km from Madikeri.
India Travel Blog | March 10, 1:05 pm ET
Geek Kindle Review
Okay, there are hundreds, nay thousands, of Kindle reviews out there… but what does a true geek think about it?
Geekwerks | March 10, 11:05 am ET
Google Maps Adds Biking Directions
Bicycling trails added to Google Maps.
Geekwerks | March 10, 9:23 am ET
All along Sci-Fi flicks have always lost at the Oscars!
This was for the third time in the history of Oscars that a science fiction box office hit lost to its modest competitor The Hurt Locker which won the Best Picture Oscar and whose Director Kathryn Bigelow became the only woman to have won the best...
India Blog Watch | March 10, 6:34 am ET
Retweet.com Sells for $250,000
Retweet.com sold for a cool quarter million earlier today.
Geekwerks | March 10, 12:56 am ET
Ladakh – People – The Kashmiris
There are largely three kind of people you get to see in Leh. The Ladakhi Buddhists are the one you encounter most often – they are the native inhabitants and manage most of the tourist infrastructure in the region. The next set of people you see very often are the tourists. They probably outnumber locals [...]
India Travel Blog | March 9, 10:24 am ET
When the Marshalls Go Marching In
This sentence says so much about the level of parliamentary debate in India today: Finally, marshals were called in to remove the unruly MPs. Who elected these dudes and put them in parliament? We did. I would hang my head in shame if that didn’t mean I’d be staring at my paunch. * I have mixed feelings on the larger issue of women’s reservation. If I was a woman, I’d find it offensive. Implying that women can’t rise in politics on their own is terribly condescending, especially when so many counter-examples exist—strong women like Uma Bharti, Sushma Swaraj, Renuka Chowdhury and, um, Pratibha Patil.
The India Uncut Blog | March 9, 12:06 am ET
A Room in Your Head
The quote of the day comes from a post by Roger Ebert: Resentment is allowing someone to live rent-free in a room in your head. You might say that the whole world lives rent-free in our heads—but in the daily-activity room, where we sit everyday, we choose who gets to sit with us. We choose whether it’s sunny or cloudy, whether we’re happy or pissed off. So the next time you’re in a bad mood, look around that room: there’s a guest there you need to eject. Ebert’s post, by the way, was a reaction to the moving feature on him by Chris
The India Uncut Blog | March 8, 6:55 pm ET
Light Rays
When summer arrives and the trees start shedding leaves, BBMP workers take short cuts and burn the leaves instead of clearing them. One morning when I was walking outside the house, someone had just gathered a few leaves and set them on fire. The resulting smoke created these shafts of light. I had enough time [...]
India Travel Blog | March 8, 10:19 am ET
Electronic Gadgets that will be huge hit in 2010
Year 2009 delighted the tech savvy generation with iphones and Flip camcorders which sold by millions. With the announcement of Apple tablet many of us are already looking into the next big thing in 2010 that would be greeted with open arms and open..
India Blog Watch | March 8, 8:55 am ET
Famous Gay and Lesbians Spotted in History Textbooks
Here's list of famous homosexual figures in history, men, women, kings, queens, poets, authors, sportsmen, and more.
India Blog Watch | March 8, 1:50 am ET
IWD
It's a little past midnight on International Women's Day, and Kathryn Bigelow just became the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar (yaay!).I'm just saying. There are times to be dismissive of tokenism, but this is not one of them.
2x3x7 | March 7, 2:00 pm ET
Ladakh – People – A few bad experiences
I have written all good things about people of Ladakh in my earlier posts in this series. Ladakhis are usually very warm and cheerful people and always carry an infectious smile (Read: Ladakh – Good Samaritans and Ladakh – Cheerful People). But in my two months of wandering in the mountain country, not every experience [...]
India Travel Blog | March 7, 7:58 am ET
Creon
Only a madman makes war on the dead.What shall I do with the dust of my grief then? Shall I bury it in my heart without name or rite of language? Or throw it to the winds that howl the desert slain?Dare I add the few grains of my tears to the general woe?Is justice then so pure, so unyielding? So like a diamond that dazzles as it cuts? I believed in these abstractions once, now I sit in a prison of my own devising, say prism rather, a geometry of principles that refract my crimes.Loss holds me transparent, magnified.
2x3x7 | March 6, 2:00 pm ET
The Wizard of Zo
The difference between tyranny and democracy is that under tyranny ordinary men pretend to be monsters and under democracy monsters pretend to be ordinary men.***Power must be concentrated in the hands of a few for it to be power. Shared power is inertia, mass, nothing more. At the heart of every democracy lies a conjuring trick - true power is taken off-stage, while the illusion of power is put on display for all to see.What makes democracy valuable is that maintaining the illusion keeps the powerful in check. The monster cannot leave his box, the puppetmaster cannot emerge from behind
2x3x7 | March 6, 2:00 pm ET
LeT's horrific kabul bombings meant to terrorise Indians
The initial investigation into the terror attacks that jolted Kabuls Indian Guest house Friday has brought to light evidences linking Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Taiba to the attacks. At least 16 people, including 9 Indians, were killed Friday in a...
India Blog Watch | March 6, 6:20 am ET
