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June 23rd, 2008

Best Indian Websites 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Best Indian websites of 2008 as ranked by PC World India. Strangely no blogs category where I assume good designs exist too.

Patrix | Posted In Asides, Design, India | Tagged Comments 3 Comments »

May 14th, 2008

Terror Attacks in the Pink City

Terrorists struck once again in India in the busiest market in the city of Jaipur, Rajasthan. At last count more than 80 people are feared to be killed with more than 150 injured in at least bomb blasts around the city. Three bombs were defused under fears that there might be more. All telltale signs [...]

Patrix | Posted In Current Affairs, India | Tagged Comments 6 Comments »

April 29th, 2008

IPL Cheerleaders

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has thrown up plenty of interesting scenarios that have opened up fresh avenues of discussions in the Indian media and the blogosphere. One of the hotly discussed issue has been that of importing cheerleaders from the U.S. and having them perform in front of crowds during a match. I linked [...]

Patrix | Posted In India, Society Culture, Sports | Tagged Comments 15 Comments »

April 17th, 2008

Fake Doctors in India

Ratio of the estimated number of fake doctors practicing in Delhi, India, to the number of real ones: 1:1 [from Harper's Index, May 2008 via MR]. If you know anything about practice of architecture in India, then trust me the fake-real ratio is much higher.

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April 16th, 2008

Futility of banning pro-Tibet protests in India

Note to the Indian government - you do not ban pro-Tibetan protests in a region that is claimed by China but lies within the legitimate borders of India especially if it is a peaceful protest. Given your fascination for the man during election time, the father of the nation would never have approved. In fact, [...]

Patrix | Posted In Current Affairs, India | Tagged Comments 5 Comments »

April 9th, 2008

Torch Relay through Arunachal Pradesh?

Given the extent of protests worldwide, the Chinese authorities will be glad when the Olympic torch relay comes to China and roam around its countryside before culminating in Beijing on August 8th. In their country, it can safely squash any protests and hide its brutal ways of doing so from the eyes of the world. [...]

Patrix | Posted In Current Affairs, India, Politicking | Tagged Comments 3 Comments »

April 9th, 2008

Buying Votes with Taxpayer Money

Free color TVs, 25 kg of rice at Rs.2 (why not free?), three per cent interest rate for farmers, journalists, women’s self help groups, potters, handloom weavers, fishermen and shepherds, and waiving of loans under Ashraya and Awaz Yojana schemes. Heck, why not? After all, taxpayer money = baap ka paisa. By the way, why [...]

Patrix | Posted In Asides, India, Politicking | Tagged Comments No Comments »

March 31st, 2008

Standing up to China

Finally we have a celebrity in India who has the balls to stand up for what he believes in. Baichung Bhutia, India’s ace footballer refused to carry the Olympic torch when it reaches New Delhi on April 17 [source: ToI]:
Talking to TOI , Bhutia, a Buddhist, said, ‘‘I sympathize with the [...]

Patrix | Posted In Current Affairs, India, Sports | Tagged Comments 11 Comments »

March 21st, 2008

Women-only IIT?

Where outsized earmarks meet pseudo-feminism, thy name is Pratibha Patil, our dearest President.

Patrix | Posted In Asides, India, Politicking | Tagged Comments Comments Off

March 20th, 2008

India Cell Phone Population

Om Malik pegs Indian cell phone users at 246 million, second only to China. Holy Guacamole! With the mobile frenzy only increasing each time I visit India, I’m not surprised. Any business plans that successfully taps into this market will definitely add a few more billionaires.

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March 4th, 2008

Green Train Toilets in India

One of the worst nightmares of Indian public transportation is in using the toilets in the long-distance trains. Even the so-called upper class trains like the Rajdhani didn’t have half-decent toilets at least when I last traveled. I remember holding it back for the entire journey which sometimes lasted couple of days just so that [...]

Patrix | Posted In Environment, Governance, India | Tagged Comments 13 Comments »

March 3rd, 2008

Lalu speaks English

Of course, you cannot miss a video of Lalu Prasad Yadav speaking English, can you? And hell didn’t freeze over either. As the Speaker of the House, Somnath Chatterjee says, iske baad rail ka koi samasya nahi rahega (There’ll be no more problems in the Railways ministry).

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March 1st, 2008

Thoughts on India After Gandhi

Given the number of blog posts, magazine (and journal) articles, and news reports I read these days, I had almost given up on books with more than 300 pages often citing attention deficit as a lame excuse, as compared to other people who seem to chew on books like a raging bull. But when I [...]

Patrix | Posted In Books, History, India | Tagged Comments 3 Comments »

February 29th, 2008

‘Border’ battle never happened?

Major General Atma Singh, now retired who won the Vir Chakra for gallantry for his role in the Laungewala battle fought in 1971 now claims that no ground battle was ever fought there and the army merely rehearsed it on a sand model after the ceasefire to cover up the incompetence of military commanders [source]. [...]

Patrix | Posted In Current Affairs, India | Tagged Comments 2 Comments »

February 18th, 2008

Hatichya Marie

I love this Marie ad in Marathi [hat tip: Sampada]. It has a distinct Marathi flavor, complete with one of our favorite exclamations - hatichya maari (a kinda damn it!) What’s more, Shah Rukh Khan is now spreading his endorsement tentacles in the regional markets as well. Poor Ashok Saraf! Who’ll pay attention to his [...]

Patrix | Posted In Ads, India, Videos | Tagged Comments 2 Comments »

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