Check out Our Delhi Struggle by a Brooklyn couple working at an MNC in South Delhi. The title is a play on ‘daily,’ not just a snarky reminder of heat and dust. They snapped guerrilla 8-bit video game art affixed to the walls of Varanasi:

These imagers were placed here by an artist called Invader. He […]

How we started Sepia Mutiny (the first post went up that same night):
—– Original Message —– From: AbhiTo: Vinod; Manish; AnnaSent: Friday, July 30, 2004 12:05 AMSubject: My Fellow Bloggers…
… This past week… the Democratic Convention [was] in the news… When news of that Michigan Republican website hit the streets, you guys blogged about […]

This is quite late, but shirts with our current logo are finally in the tee shop. Fittingly, the pennies go toward our taro root bubble tea fund.
For those of you who’ve gotten tees, which are handled by Printfection, did the quality turn out ok?

Yesterday’s April Fools prank turned the usual result on its head: many of the savviest readers were tripped up, while those who tend to trust saw right through it. My theory is that the efficient don’t read the fine print, they only skim the beginning of each paragraph. And all the clues were placed at […]

Update: Only one person recognized the G.W. Bush signature?

Here’s a quick and dirty new comments page. It loads new comments much faster than the main page. Bookmark it if you’re addicted to comments and not in the habit of using RSS feeds.

The founder of the group blog Pakistaniat was interviewed in the Boston Globe, and his idea of what makes a great blog is pretty much my nightmare. For one thing, the blog, which says it gets 10K visitors/day, had Lal Masjid militants posting comments during the commando siege:
… when Pakistani security forces laid siege to […]

You can now click the tags beneath a news story to catch up with all stories about that topic. For example, here are all the news stories on cable cuts in the Middle East: cable cuts

Here’s everything about the Archbishop of Canterbury’s comments on sharia law: rowan williams

Here are all 31, semi-obsessive stories so far […]

The blog was attacked Monday afternoon by an automated script which used a WordPress 2.1 security hole to add prescription drug ads and random text to some of the posts, and prevented other posts from being created or edited. The ads pointed to a server, brokensaints.com, which itself may have been hacked. Lesson: stay up-to-date […]

Drop everything and give charticle ustad Krish Ashok some love for posts like this, this, this, this, and this (via Masala Chai). How to throw flowers at a Tamil wedding:

The minute the snowstorm warning was announced in Boston, I knew yesterday’s meetup would be a lonely affair. There’s only so much trudging through premature darkness and freezing slush in breathable nylon mesh sneakers one can ask of people from tropical climes. At least we were on track to make history — the first big […]

Reminder: Boston meetup this Sunday, 2pm at Namaskar, 236 Elm St., Davis Square, Somerville. See y’all then!
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Update: The restaurant stops serving lunch at 3pm. If you arrive afterward, we’ll be at Diesel Café (257 Elm St.), half a block north, across the street.
Related posts: Beantown meetup (updated), Raas Leela, The revolution shall be […]

One of the things you didn’t know about this blog is that a sizable amount of its traffic comes from Google searches for “Labrador porn”. Almost every time I check Sitemeter, there’s someone searching with that phrase (or a variant such as “p…

I’m in Boston this weekend, and potentially many weekends. Let’s do a small meetup this Sunday– say 3pm at Diva Indian Bistro, Davis Square? Other times/location suggestions are more than welcome.

Update: Due to final exams, let’s meet up next week, Sunday Dec. 16th, 2pm, at Namaskar (thanks tamasha), 236 Elm St., Davis Square, Somerville. Please […]