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Harry Potter Actor Stabbed in London! 2008-05-26 02:33:50 This piece of information will worry all parents of teenagers. It says the UK there were 14 teenage killings this year. Really? What’s the figure for Mumbai, nobody knows. (I did a search and didn’t...
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Look Who's Blogging! Chuck Palahniuk! 2008-05-28 23:04:41 Yesterday I stumbled on thee blog of the cult writer Chuck
Palahniuk, he of the “Fight Club” fame, with thousands of young writers, just craving, yeah, just crrraaavvving to write like him. Know what...
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Shobha De Enjoys Blogging, Welcome to Blogosphere, Shobha-tai! 2008-05-30 23:03:16 The latest Shobha De Blog has this item about how Vijay Mallya (he of the failed Royal Challenger team in Indian Premier League, if you don’t know what this is, it’s the latest in cricketing follies...
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A Poem and All about Medical Insurance 2008-06-01 07:12:40 A poem written to a friend who was in ICU recently. It was shocking how he, youthful, a fitness freak, a cyclist, maintaining a busy schedule and a robust life ended up in hospital. Shows nobody is...
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Oh, Give Me a Break…. 2008-06-01 05:03:12 I have this habit, I don’t know good or bad, of looking over shoulders at laptops and taking a peek at the stuff people near me are working on inside Bombay’s cattle pens, euphemism for trains. And...
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The Resplendent Glory of Jodhpur 2008-06-03 03:40:08 Saw this most engaging documentary on the Maharaja Gaj Singh of Jodhpur
on Discovery channel. What was amazing was how this royal has managed to maintain the traditions of his royal house at his own...
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No title 2008-06-01 23:43:46 This is the article that appeared in Mumbai Newsline about Amitabh Bachchan launching his blog where I have been quoted. All I said was I would like to see Shobhaa De blog, and lo and behold she has...
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The Rain in Bombay 2008-06-05 06:23:19 The rain struck Bombay
on Tuesday night and the above was the result of the backlash it unleashed. Tuesday night it grew very hot inside the compartment, and when the train approached Kurla, I felt a...
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Another Rejection Letter! 2008-06-05 23:27:49 You wait and wait, and wait some more…. You lose all hope, and then comes this sweet letter. I am a bit wary about putting it here so publicly, but I have said it before and will say it again, this...
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Bombay in the Rain - Part Two 2008-06-08 00:12:28 The rain brings with it a host of catastrophes, unique to Bombay
. If you are about to visit Bombay, hold all plans. I read this travel advisory The Economist gives free to all and sundry, and this is...
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Oil Companies, Reverse Robinhood, and Zero Carbon, Me! 2008-06-08 00:11:07 I am not a very figures kind of person, except when it is “figure” of the other kind. I can remember bank account numbers, pin codes, ATM codes, etc. but when it comes to remembering a lot of...
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Why Some Writers Have It So Good 2008-06-10 03:54:22 The great Jeffrey Archer, in India to promote his new book:
“Now this all began, well, 34 years ago, when I stopped being an English member of parliament, couldn’t get a job, so I wrote my first...
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Lady Catches Thief in the Act! What about Morality? 2008-06-11 04:18:40 Read this story about a brave lady who caught a thief in his act. Seems she has a knack for catching thieves while they are mighty busy deciding what to shove into their cloth. What’s amazing is that...
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Tips If There Is an Emergency This Monsoon 2008-06-10 23:59:30 Remember July 27, 2006? The great deluge that engulfed Bombay and most of us had to wade through neck deep water to our homes, or had to spend the night in the office? here are some precautions to...
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Trousers Creased at the Sides 2008-06-12 23:05:04 Trousers ironed with the crease at the sides (instead of in the centre) make even the smartest man appear like a village yokel just rolled out of bed after a particularly bad binge in the night....
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Two Worlds Within One Country 2008-06-15 02:56:11 The Affluent, previleged ones are queueing up outside this stall to have a free shave, and a free razor.
They materialised out of nowhere, and squatted on the platform, the underprivileged...
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Why Such Hype Over Arushi? 2008-06-14 13:35:55 As I sit here an excited reporter is ranting, raving, screaming on Star TV about the Arushi murder case. His voice is hoarse, breaking, he is obviously working very hard. Or is he so emotional...
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Colaba Goes Without Water! 2008-06-14 13:01:21 Says Shekhar Kapur in this post on his blog":
"My assistant went out and shot a little video in Colaba, in Mumbai. There's no water in the taps in this area. It is served by Water Tankers, that come...
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India: the Place of Sex 2008-06-16 02:26:53 In this article in New York Times' book section website titled "India
the Place
of Sex" the following is what William Dalrymple has to say:
"As James McConnachie makes clear (in his study of the...
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Exploitation in the Gulf, What I have Seen With My Own Eyes 2008-06-15 08:08:42 Read this article by Sonia Faleiro on the exploitation of household helps in the Gulf countries. Something I have seen with my own eyes (when I worked there for a multinational, which wasn't good...
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Et Tu, Manil? "What a Waste!" 2008-06-17 23:46:39 Manil Suri confesses about being gay and about his love of mathematics in this article in New York Times:
"And there was something else. I knew I was probably gay, which was completely invisible in...
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Zigzackly is Back! 2008-06-17 23:21:07 Writes Peter alias Zigzackly about his recent heart attack:
"...I got a bonus life.
"I have no business being here, actually. Providence, sheer dumb luck, call it what you will, fact is that if one...
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Sweating in an Air-conditioned Bus in Andheri (East) 2008-06-22 08:30:38 Andheri. The name means “darkness” and darkness it is. Today Andheri has been taken over by IT majors, BPO companies, and outsourcers of Bangalored business from the shores of the US of A. One would...
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Ganga Is Alive and Well, Shankaro-sir! 2008-06-22 08:19:56 Went to visit Ganga at his residence which we friends call Gangalayam. Ganga is fine and recounted his encounter with elephants. The elephants charged him twice and left him with a long gash on his...
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My Friend, Ganga 2008-06-21 01:14:22 The snowy-bearded guy is Ganga!
This is about my friend Ganga, the irrepressible, irreverent co-owner of a six-crore advertising agency. He is fun to be around! We were friends from the time we used...
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Fight in the Said Air-Conditioned Bus at Andheri (East) 2008-06-20 00:22:47 Had a huge fight with the conductor of the air-condition bus mentioned in the post that appears below. It’s Andheri (East) and after the usual sweaty, hot, impatient wait, I get inside. I have bought...
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The Last Mughal - Story of a People's First Freedom Struggle 2008-07-06 08:56:52 I am reading William Dalrymple’s “The Last Mughal” and couldn’t help wondering how our past has been so full of bloody conflicts, wars, riots, crimes against humanity, barbarism, rape, looting, and...
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Things Getting Hot at Google for for Misha? 2008-07-04 23:13:13 I am a great fan of "Fake Steve Jobs" the blog run by a journalist who impersonates Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computers. He once wrote that whatever Steve Jobs innovates don't have buttons because...
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Over the Top, Greenpeace? 2008-07-03 23:52:53 Normal 0 When Greenpeace
was born I was one of the first to approach them to start campaigning in India (yes I still have correspondence to prove it). But their latest campaign against Tata...
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Torrential Rain: Total Chaos, Not Again! 2008-07-03 12:32:48 Drenched: dispirited: dejected: as I waited at Kurla for a train back to New Bombay. There was chaos everywhere. No not again after 26 July 2005. There were trains going towards Victoria Terminus but...
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