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Sorry, Indians not allowed, in India!

Haagen-Dazs BRILLIANT Caption at the end! Image Source: Times of India While reading history we often read “Indians and Dogs Not Allowed.” After 62 years of so called independence, you can spot the above signboard in India, in South Delhi. 🙂 Now they are saying, its a wrong choice of words. From where they hire… Continue reading Sorry, Indians not allowed, in India!

Says It All!

I viewed this cartoon on facebook posted by Ankur Jayawant. Cartoonists are still cartoonists. They don’t have to behave like self proclaimed most respected journalists fattening on political money. 🙂

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Behavior of Our Leaders!

Sonia Furious As Congress Makes Mockery of Dalit Agenda On 2nd Occtober, Congressmen were celebrating Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday by spending nights at the house of a Dalit villagers in their constituencies. What these congressmen did? Read for yourself. Sriprakash Jaiswal, Kanpur MP and a minister of state, had fans running on generators as he slept… Continue reading Behavior of Our Leaders!

Mont Blanc’s Gandhi Pen

  Mahatma Gandhi (Image Source: ajaygoel.in) How can the person standing in the above picture can be a model for a product costing around Rs. 12 lakhs?  How can this person compete with the iron pumping, gym totting, six pack abs flouting super cool dudes? Why can’t the Harvard or Wharton MBA ad gurus think… Continue reading Mont Blanc’s Gandhi Pen

If More and More of Us Can Imitate These Cool Dudes

I have read about some real dudes. Though they belong to a very small place but their work is worth emulating. Is there any solution that on Vijayadashmi, we can do something else with Durga Idol instead of immersing it in our already polluted rivers? Will we be able to find out a way. I… Continue reading If More and More of Us Can Imitate These Cool Dudes

What Defines An Indian?

What Does It Mean To Be An Indian?  I copy pasted the whole thing without any shame. In fact, on the contrary I am feeling quite proud. 🙂 Please take your time and read the post without being cynical.   A friend remarked to me that what defines America is its veneration of entrepreneurship. The… Continue reading What Defines An Indian?

River Gym

    River Gym (Image Source: ecofriend) Currently clean and green living has caught my fancy. I try to read what people are doing to keep our environment clean. Sometimes I come across most amazing ideas. In this fitness conscious world most of us try to do our bit is to remain healthy. When an… Continue reading River Gym

Longer Life and Specific Foods In Mediterranean Diet

  Image Source: Gogomummy.com [Don’t feel offended about the authenticity of the vegetables. Here in India we get somewhat similar quality (unless you have your own kitchen garden or farm) than depicted in the above picture] No matter how much research you conduct and how many subjects you include for your study and how prestigious… Continue reading Longer Life and Specific Foods In Mediterranean Diet

Wash Clothes Using One Cup of Water

    Xeros has introducing environmentally friendly washing machine that will use very little water to wash clothes. But common consumers have to wait for such a washing machine. Xeros will produce it for hotels and drycleaners first. The appliance, which could save billions of litres of water a year, has been developed at the… Continue reading Wash Clothes Using One Cup of Water

Attack on Indians in Australia

I was just wondering what MNS supremo Mr. Raj Thackeray has to say about these incidents in Australia. He might say that Indians sorry Maharashtrians shouldn’t go to Australia or any other place in this world. They should stay in Maharashtra. Anyway Mr. Raj Thackeray, your silence is deafening.

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The Mouse That Roared!

  Photoshop of the day Image Source: The Daily Dish Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad afraid of the Power of Communication! Hats off to those who invested sleepless nights to invent this modern day communication tool called internet. The brutal regimes and their perpetrators trembles before this mighty tool. Visit this link http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=88660934117&h=F3jNG&u=uexbx&ref=mf to see what… Continue reading The Mouse That Roared!

Vertical Farming!

I accidently came across this article, The Vertical Farm Project – Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond. I find the concept of vertical farming simply amazing. They are planning to execute it in 2060. But it seems that vertical farming will meet the need of the growing population. After all we have started living… Continue reading Vertical Farming!

Zero Emissions Bike

Zero Emissions Motorbike Kingston University’s six final year engineering students have designed this zero emission motorbike. They have used recycled material in this battery powered motorbike. What is astonishing about this bike is it has the ability to reach speeds of 102mph, race around a 38 mile mountainous course. But the icing on the cake… Continue reading Zero Emissions Bike

Current Miss India’s mother was Given a Choice, “kill her child or forfeit her marriage”

What was the reply of the mom? “When my mum walked out on my dad, she said to him, ‘One day this girl will make me proud’. All my life I’ve wanted my mum to be proud of the decision that she chose me,” Pooja said. This year’s Miss India Pooja Chopra’s father was a… Continue reading Current Miss India’s mother was Given a Choice, “kill her child or forfeit her marriage”

Growing Vegetables on a Balcony

I was trying to grow vegetables in my balcony. First I took some unused buckets, put some soil in it and for two years threw fruit and vegetable peels, egg shells and chicken bones in those buckets and watered it almost everyday. We bought some bhindi seeds (ladyfingers seeds) planted those and waited eagerly. We… Continue reading Growing Vegetables on a Balcony

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