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Funny T-shirts for Malayalee abroad

Been thinking about this for a while. Why not create some funny malayali t-shirts and try to sell it online? If it works, great and I make a lot of fellow mallus happy. We all get to wear mallu t-shirts! What can be better than that?
On the other hand, if nobody wants to buy them [...]

Bomb blast at Mehrauli’s Jahaj Mahal flower market

Update: News sites are now reporting that 2 people were killed, and 18 injured in the blast.
This just in. There has been a bomb blast at Jahaj Mahal flower market in New Delhi. According to reports, 5 people have died and 50 injured.
The injured have been rushed to Safdarjung Hospital and AIIMS in New Delhi.
Eye [...]

In defence of Delhi drivers - all car accidents are not the drivers’ fault!

As if one has to re-state this. You would think everyone would agree. But the current state of media reporting of car or motorcycle accidents, and the attitude of society, and possibly the judgements compel me to write about this.
I am not a Delhiite - but I have been here for two years, and been [...]

E-cigarettes are now available in India

The Electronic Cigarette or E-Cigarette that has been developed in China by Hon Lik of Ruyan is gaining in popularity in India among smokers who want to give a shot to quitting without getting rid of their nicotine fix.

Pearl Gupta: Killed by twin Delhi evils

Street harassment and rash driving. Two of Delhi’s most well-known evils. Both out of control. They came together yesterday to kill Pearl Gupta, a 17-year old first-year-student of Aditi Mahavidyalaya.
This is what happened according to Parul, her friend who was walking with her when it happened:
“Barely 20 metres from the college gate, a scooterist [...]

Mallu bloggers I have found, and occasionally read

Have to say this about the Malayalees on the Net - much, much classier than the non-Netted Malayalees! I am a prime example, of course. People like Venugopal… smart and witty, yes. Cool, no. Not worthy to untie my sandals, so to speak.
The best I have found so far is Anjali, blogging as Silverine. My [...]

Cops turn molesters, we are not surprised

I am not surprised by these two news items at all:
Delhi cops suspended
Delhi Police commissioner Y S Dadwal on Wednesday suspended the three cops who had allegedly refused to come to the aid of girl students, after they were molested by aspiring policemen at North Campus on Saturday night. A separate FIR in another case, [...]

Lionnel Mascarenhas’ Kashmir Again video

I met Lionnel at Not Just Jazz by the Bay, Mumbai last month. He was performing there that night. It was like, what, some two or three years after going to any kind of rock show? Maybe more.
 
Watching Lionnel perform - just how do they get on stage and do all that? Somehow I have [...]

Seriously man, Britney is doing exactly what?

You know, her fall from grace and general carelessness with underwear is kind of sad. But when performance on-stage suffers, it is no good reacting by trying to go on binge-drinking. Hope poor Britney Spears does not get any worse. After all, people my age grew up with her, though we found the songs definitely [...]

A normal day in Delhi: Eve teasing a karate coach, blueline accident and motorcycle diaries

All that in the morning papers.
In the case of the unfortunate eve teaser who had the bad luck to try and grope a 24-year old Karate coach in a Blueline bus, I can’t help feeling thrilled. Tough babes are da sexy!
The jerks tried their stuff in the bus, and the young Karate coach caught [...]