In India, we do things differently. And in keeping with the rich tradition of orally imparted knowledge and MMS scandals, we rarely like to write things down, and that is why when we go to “foreign”, we spare no chances in pontificating, elucidating and prognosticating on the Great Indian Difference. In India, we have history. … Continue reading Indianizing the Facebook “Like” button
I cannot resist Graphjam so here we are. Indian Film song lyrics explained with simple graphs. I promise, this will be the second last time I will be “inspired” (like Anu Malik) to remix a popular Internet meme for desi purposes. First we explore the Hindi Film Industry, or as Cineblitz chooses to acronymize, HiFI … Continue reading Indian Film Song Lyrics
Congratulations Abhinav. Awesome show. The media tells me that you have given hope, single-handedly, to a billion people aching for Indian sporting glory. Well, at least the 400 million, TV-watching, newspaper-scanning part of that billion. All news channels are currently busy analyzing why India cannot produce more Abhinavs. What makes your (and Leander’s, Rajyavardhan’s and … Continue reading I sport Indian support
The first ever video game I ever played was a small, handheld thingie involving driving away hungry wolves from sheep grazing peacefully in a farm. When the first PC arrived at home, a mighty 386 with a whopping 4 MB RAM, I was introduced to Prince of Persia, an scrolling arcade type rescue-princess-from-evil-vizier adventure, which … Continue reading The Sporepedia is not complete till some desis move in
When I was a kid, I always wondered what the “Tropicalized” symbol meant on the small Philips cassette player we used to have. My dad explained that it was to indicate that the player was specially designed to withstand tropical conditions. And it made sense. Clearly, from the perspective of the cassette player or any … Continue reading Symbolically speaking
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It’s been a long while. And since Tehelka is in the air, Click on the image for a larger, more readable version. On the safe side, When I say “Tyrant Lizard”, I refer to this Here are the previous episodes. Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5
What do you call an unfortunate soul who spends 2 days a half in Chicago and visits a grand total of 4 places, namely O’Hare airport, Cousin’s home, Office and Client Location? A workaholic dullard? No A lifeless loser? No Krish Ashok? Yes. And what’s worse, when he gets precisely 3 chances to eat out, … Continue reading The Grand Adventures in Hawa Hawa City (the complete lack of them, i.e)
Prologue Conversation overheard in Chennai, circa 2005. 3 kids. “Dei, have you heard of China?” “Yes da. She is a very muscular WWE wrestler da” Matter A few days back, while I was trying to extricate The Hindu newspaper out of several thousand ad pamphlets that come along with it nowadays, I ran into something … Continue reading Chinese (fact) Checkers
