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Posts in Rants Category
August 4th, 2008
Wrong on the Internet
Patrix | 
Opinion, Personal, Rants | 
4 Comments »
December 3rd, 2007
Swadeshi Movement for a Cricket Coach
Ajit Wadekar is credited with enormous cricket successes as an Indian captain in 1971 and later as a coach in the early 90s. In my opinion, he was simply lucky to have the right players that guided India to victory. I am not doubting his talent as a cricketer because frankly neither have I seen [...]
Patrix | India, Rants, Sports | 8 Comments »
November 14th, 2007
Vote for the Bitch
John McCain was asked in a town hall meeting, “How can we beat the bitch?” obviously alluding to Hillary Clinton. The audience including McCain laughed. My follow-up question, isn’t he first expected to beat the bastards?
Patrix | Asides, Politicking, Rants | Comments Off
July 7th, 2007
The New Seven Wonders
Finally, I can look forward to opening emails from long-forgotten friends without having to fear that chain-letter craziness. The latest craziness was to vote for the new seven wonders of the world. A website, www.new7wonders.com (sorry, no link; feel free to type it out yourself or cut-paste) popped up out of nowhere and in spite [...]
Patrix | Art and Architecture, India, Media, Rants | 28 Comments »
July 6th, 2007
King and Queen of India?
Sonia Falerio pointed me to this ridiculous post on Perez Hilton who report the weird story of an Indian prince who has come out of the closet. My initial reaction was why the heck was Sonia reading Perez Hilton who apparently is known primarily for holding the fort for his other famous namesake, Paris Hilton [...]
Patrix | India, Media, Rants, Society Culture | 5 Comments »
May 25th, 2007
Krishna as a dating icon
Earlier this week I posted an image of Lord Krishna sucking on a cow’s teat citing that I found the image weird (not offensive, mind you). The post generated lot of comments some of which found nothing wrong with the depiction. I understand their perception and thus lack of any feelings of being weirded out [...]
Patrix | India, Rants, Recommended, Religion, Society Culture | 16 Comments »
May 15th, 2007
Moral Police Raj
This is shocking. We should stop pretending that we are a blooming democracy when in fact, the basic tenets of freedom of expression aren’t adhered to. Violations of freedom of expression in India are so common place nowadays that any protesting bloggers or any other group are considered recalcitrant. We like to trumpet the fact [...]
Patrix | Current Affairs, India, Politicking, Rants, Religion, Society Culture | 6 Comments »
March 17th, 2007
Upsets Galore at the Cricket World Cup
Just when I was bemoaning the predictability of a lackluster tournament, the Cricket World Cup kicked into high gear with two monumental upsets. India went down to Bangladesh and Pakistan was knocked out of the World Cup by ‘lowly’ Ireland. It was a dark night on the subcontinent dotted probably with only flickering television screens [...]
Patrix | India, Rants, Sports | 9 Comments »
February 27th, 2007
Creating an Architectural and Engineering Symbol for India?
In spite of the fact that India has experienced unprecedented growth in recent times [primarily due to liberalization], we somehow still cling to our socialist ideals. I disagree with the notion that most of the growth has happened due to people wanting to ‘uplift’ India and as any economist worth his salt would agree that [...]
Patrix | Art and Architecture, India, Media, Rants | Comments Off
February 17th, 2007
A Building Full of Suspects
The body the just-born girl child with the placenta and umbilical cord intact, was found on Friday morning behind one of the cars in the stilt car-park of Ramgiri Paradise building. The child’s head had been battered. The post-mortem report from Sion hospital states that a blunt object was used to kill her.
This didn’t happen [...]
Patrix | India, Rants, Society Culture | 3 Comments »
February 3rd, 2007
Baby Gandhi gets offended
Last year when the Blogspot domain [later clarified to 17 individual websites] was blocked by the Indian government, many cited national security as justification. Wouldn’t you agree that blocking few websites was better than losing 10,000 lives - was a common argument. It is also that classic ’support the troops’ pro-war argument that if you [...]
Patrix | Current Affairs, Politicking, Rants, Society Culture | 4 Comments »
January 14th, 2007
The Gandhi YouTube Controversy
(image source: Boing Boing)
Couple of weeks back, Brazil insanely decided to ban YouTube for failing to effectively curb the spread of the Daniella Cicarelli sex-on-the-beach video. The order was issued after Cicarelli and her boyfriend filed suit in a Brazilian court. Of course, Daniella hadn’t envisioned that in spite of her celebrity status in Brazil, [...]
Patrix | Governance, India, Media, Politicking, Rants, Videos | 29 Comments »
November 28th, 2006
Vaastu haunts a Charles Correa Design
You are well aware of my disdain for vaastu shastra and its spurious usage to justify superstitious beliefs. While in architecture school, I ’studied’ vaastu for a while and found that it can be useful only in a limited scope and only when applied with full knowledge of the reasons for its use. But in [...]
Patrix | Art and Architecture, India, Rants, Society Culture | 3 Comments »
November 4th, 2006
Ban Horror Movies?
Yup, you heard that right. Bill O’Reilly, the patriarch for all things loony and conservative (values-wise) is now going to “look into this” [video link]; ‘this’ being America’s fondness for horror movies. Horror fans are already ranting against his asinine opinion, which I completely agree with.
Admittedly, I am not fan of horror movies that is, [...]
Patrix | Movies, Rants, Society Culture | 8 Comments »
October 26th, 2006
WebVastu in Wired
You might remember my rant on a particular book on web design that attempts to guide you on using Vastu Shastra for designing websites. I was surprised to see that the book, WebVastu authored by Smita Jain Narang was featured in this month’s Wired magazine.
The story claims that she is “rapidly becoming one of India’s [...]
Patrix | Art and Architecture, Rants, education | 4 Comments »
September 10th, 2006
Must be one heck of a rib
I was reading this balanced column on the state of Muslim women in India when a particular section caught my eye:
Take Maulana Tauhid Akhtar, the imam of Bandra’s Station Masjid for over 12 years: “The Prophet was many years ahead of his times. He gave women rights, and came down heavily against female foeticide, a [...]
Patrix | Politicking, Rants, Religion | 3 Comments »
September 8th, 2006
Terror in Malegaon
Terrorists struck in Maharashtra on Friday, killing at least 37 people and injuring over 100 in three blasts including one in a mosque in the communally sensitive Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon [source].
If some of you are thinking (wrongly so, I might add), why would “terrorists” kill “their own”, you’ll be missing the point. The objective [...]
Patrix | Current Affairs, Politicking, Rants | 4 Comments »
August 21st, 2006
Hitler-Themed Restaurant
If you are in the restaurant business, you are always on the lookout of the next ‘different’ theme that will attract people. Punit Sablok had a similar ‘brainwave’ when he decided to model his new restaurant in Khaghar, Navi Mumbai on Hitler (yup, there is just one in the world) [hat tip: Amol Sardesai]. Hitler’s [...]
Patrix | India, Rants, Recommended | 21 Comments »
August 20th, 2006
Get Off my Mthf*$# Plane
British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed. The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic [source].
Shocking! No wonder Bin Laden finds it easier [...]
Patrix | Rants | 6 Comments »
July 23rd, 2006
The ‘Me Mumbaikar’ Argument
Any email list that involves almost 400 people scattered around the world is bound to include an occasional crackpot; often to the amusement of others. To make it more interesting, if the email list comprises of opinionated bloggers then the exchange of thoughts can vary from downright reasonable to insanely crazy. The Collective Bloggers email [...]
Patrix | India, Rants | 11 Comments »
Movies I've Watched...
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2008-09-02 21:00
Explores the brother-sister relationship brought together during their father's last days.
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2008-09-01 21:00
Poignant but slow narrative of an orphaned girl living with her aunt in rural Maharashtra.
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2008-08-09 23:00
Stunning and engaging narration. Raw violence and personal struggles of ordinary guys in a tough neighborhood.
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2008-08-05 20:00
Underwhelming. Johansson is miscast but continues her run of being the 'other woman'.
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