In Russian news of the weird, a man supposedly put his wife up as poker stakes, and lost:
Andrei Karpov from Murmansk had run out of money in a game of poker and offered his opponent his wife instead of cash to stay in the game.
When he lost the game and his opponent Sergey Brodov [...]
The first all-female unit of United Nations peacekeepers has arrived in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia.
The group of more than 100 police women from India will stay in Liberia for six months, helping to train the local police force.
They will also carry out security duties in forthcoming local elections.
The UN currently has 15,000 peacekeepers deployed in Liberia, [...]
The snapshots of India’s Republic Day on Flickr are far more interesting than the photos of marching columns in the papers. It’s much like the vitality of good blogs vs. staid mainstream news.
Related posts: Beating Retreat, Fanaa [...]
Delhi’s Khan Market hit CNN recently as one of the world’s most expensive retail zones, though much cheaper than Fifth Avenue:
Delhi’s relatively few legally zoned retail spaces such as Khan Market are becoming ever more valuable… It is precisely the market’s closeness to some of Delhi’s most expensive residential streets that has seen rents swell… [...]
The IIT Delhi campus has been on lockdown following the 2005 terrorist attack on IISc Bangalore. The new buildings are quite pretty from the outside. I love how the main sign is done in Futura.
At first blush, there were more women here than at UC Berkeley engineering, as is the pattern in many developing countries.
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Here’s a clip from the Global Indian Film Awards in Malaysia, a show neither global nor pan-Indian. Skip ahead to 6:45. Shah Rukh Khan’s irritating oratory style makes Dubya sound like Demosthenes:
My favorite part is at 8:40 when Shatrughan Sinha tries to pass off the creator of Krrap as the savior of world cinema.
Under threat of violence in Gujarat, movie theaters have refused to show Parzania, an award-winning indie film about… violence in Gujarat:
… Parzania… is based on the attack on the Gulberg Society [in Ahmedabad during 2002] in which 39 persons were burnt alive… [Link]
Not a single cinema hall in Gujarat is showing Parzania. Theatre owners say [...]
Yes, I’m sure it was the extra ’s’ that did it.
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As a special surprise, we present the now legendary comicbook Nagraj vs Shakoora the Magician. Copyright infringements and grammar be dammed!!
Shia and Sunni
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The Beating Retreat parade is as finely managed as a TV set. The buildings are Rome reflected through Britain, the uniforms and pomp Britain, Indianized. Off in the distance the road rises, creating an artificial horizon. First the cavalry, then the bands, then the camels appear, eighteen on each side in silhouette. The bagpipers come [...]
Music director O.P. Nayyar, who composed some of Bollywood’s most memorable tunes of the 1950s and 60s, died on Sunday after a heart attack at his home outside Mumbai, a news agency reported.
Nayyar, 81, was famous for the use of Punjabi rhythms in his music and is credited with making stars of several leading singers, [...]
NPR talk to Sanjay Patel, an animator for Pixar Studios and creator of Ghee Happy, yesterday. Take a listen to the interview…..also BUY THE BOOK!