What we do – Eve Teasing

The other day I happened to talk to a friend who is now a part of the IT force of young India that I seem to be so disconnected with. Talking over modes of transportation, I hear the oft repeated problems related to widespread, public sexual harassment that we mildly put as ‘ eve teasing’, [...]

The Nowhere children – Tehelka reports

According to a recent report by the National Human Rights Commission, an average of 22,480 women and 44,476 children are reported missing in India each year. Of these, [...]

Mush Mush hasi

What’s Mush boy upto?

Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf spends most of his time in playing tennis, squash and bridge, besides meeting a lot of people. He has an extremely busy schedule throughout the day [TOI reports]…
Says who?
said Hammad Hussain, the architect of Musharraf’s five-acre farm house who is considered as close to Musharraf.
The young architect [...]

Stop the war or we quit

TOI reports:
Serving an ultimatum to the Centre on the Sri Lankan Tamil problem, an all-party meeting in Tamil Nadu, convened by chief minister M Karunanidhi, on Tuesday warned that all MPs from the state would resign en masse, if the government failed to halt the war in the island nation within two weeks.
Quite compassionate our [...]

The right question.

CampbellBrown nails the right question, something I’ve been looking for, for ever since the campaign started.
So what if Obama was Arab or Muslim? So what if John McCain was Arab or Muslim? Would it matter?
…
We’ve all been too quick to accept the idea that calling someone Muslim is a slur.
I feel like I am [...]

‘That one’ and ‘the’ weather channel – Andy Borowotz

Alaska governor Sarah Palin went on the attack today, claiming that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama had longstanding ties to The Weather Channel. (Borowitz report).

Q: What’s the ONE good thing, that ever came out of Sarah Palin’s V.P candidacy?
A: Tina Fey!

If you haven’t discovered your role, you’re the villain today. You’ve got to act like a villain.

Richard Fuld, the now infamous CEO of Lehman brothers, who takes home $ 350 million after the collapse (instead of $500 million), being told that statement by Senator John Mica.
Guardian reports

Are bad times healthy?

Tara Parker-Pope Analyzes,
NYT article

Dance with me, sway with me

Elevator to Space

Now the finest scientific minds of Japan are devoting themselves to cracking the greatest sci-fi vision of all: the space elevator. Man has so far conquered space by painfully and inefficiently blasting himself out of the atmosphere but the 21st century should bring a more leisurely ride to the final frontier.
And one of the people [...]