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July 3rd, 2008

ThirdPath Parenting

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!ThirdPath parenting. My wife insisted that I read this (emailed it to me, starred it in my Gmail, and asked me every night if I had read it which I finally did today) so I feel [...]

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June 10th, 2008

Albino Good Luck Charms

After tiger claws and rabbit’s foot, albinos pay the price for fulfilling people’s need for good luck charms. Superstition is literally killing people.

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June 6th, 2008

Media’s Sexist Behavior toward Hillary Clinton

“Clearly, in an age when the dangers and indignities of Driving While Black are well-acknowledged, and properly condemned, Striving While Female – if it goes too far and looks too real — is still held to be a crime.”
An excellent post on Clinton’s treatment by the media by Judith Warner. Mind you, the Obama campaign [...]

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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 [...]

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March 28th, 2008

Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Instability

To put it in plain English, living together before marriage and a successful marriage. Research has shown (now now don’t roll your eyes) that the two are no longer associated with each other [PDF link] so the myth of a failed marriage if you live together before is bust now. Go ahead and move in [...]

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March 6th, 2008

Protecting Women by Excluding Men

In a country that is culturally and ethnically diverse, it is always difficult strike a balance between protecting the interests of its minorities and appeasing them for political purposes. Immigrants to America have often found their interests respected even in face of overwhelming cultural and societal pushback. These decisions are often based in the Constitution [...]

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December 5th, 2007

Respect your parents

Vietnamese kids are more likely to respect their parents. Yup, even more than Indian kids. So Karan ‘it’s all about loving your parents’ Johar, there goes your parampara; the VietCong seems to have done a better job. Or we just are a servile kid nation. And so much for bashing the Amreeki bachhe, they aren’t [...]

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November 15th, 2007

Celebrities and Sex - not a myth?

How many sexual partners do celebrities actually have? On average, about 82 for the men and 79 for the women. And even after you adjust for outliers (no pun intended), the average compared to regular people is still high at 26 for the men and 36 for the women. And only poor Paris makes the [...]

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November 11th, 2007

Flickr Places Feature

Flickr is soon adding a new feature - Places. It will allow you to explore places in a way that will make cultural comparisons easier. Also, it will be darn nifty to scout out places before you visit them.

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November 9th, 2007

Shubh Deepavali

Happy Diwali to y’all. May your cup of joy runneth over.
Note to myself - make sure the Christmas lights work before Diwali night and get authentic diyas from India. These candles in glass holders are like eating onion rings instead of kanda bhajji while it is pouring.

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November 6th, 2007

NY Girl of My Dreams - Found Her!

Guy sees girl in a subway. Can’t muster up courage to ask her out. Goes home. Makes an illustration of “the girl of my dream”. Posts it online [Video] .And now CNN wants to talk to him. . Awwww! or Ewwww! You decide.

Update: The bugger found her! Sensibly, he isn’t providing any more updates [...]

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October 24th, 2007

Indian-Americans and Poker

The folks at Freakonomics wonder why we don’t see many Indian-Americans playing poker; competitive or otherwise. So far, cultural factors and risk aversion are said to be the reasons.

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October 23rd, 2007

Living Through the Odyssey Years

Rashmi recently cited a David Brooks op-ed that I had bookmarked sometime back. The odyssey generation that he mentions, is found not only in the United States and Europe but also in increasing numbers in India. By odyssey generation, he points to a stage in our lives where we still are figuring out things and [...]

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October 18th, 2007

Watson Racist

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the DNA structure has stirred the race vs. intelligence debate (once again). His previous controversial exhortations have included, “a woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual” and “black people have higher libidos.” If nothing, he at least proves [...]

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October 15th, 2007

Does Wes Anderson overplay the exotic element?

I was looking forward to watching Wes Anderson’s Darjeeling Limited but a slew of unfavorable reviews put me off. One common complaint regarding Anderson’s movies is - “the clumsy, discomfiting way he stages interactions between white protagonists—typically upper-class elites—and nonwhite foils—typically working class and poor” [via Slate]. On those lines, this particular line regarding Darjeeling [...]

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