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The Rancho effect

Anshu — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:13:32 +0000

How I wish this writing on the wall

Changed to this!

A bag of sugar and a busy road

Anshu — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:50:36 +0000

I photographed this old man in Gaya (Bihar) with a bag of sugar trying to cross the road unsuccessfully for a good fifteen minutes.

If Ramayana were on Facebook

Anshu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:06:03 +0000

Goofy!

If Ramayan were on facebook

Cattle class?

Anshu — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:53:15 +0000

Loved Amul’s spoof on Shashi Tharoor’s cattle class comment. Holy Cow!

Kapil Sibal waxes eloquent on Class X Boards

Anshu — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:30:13 +0000

Well, did you know that Kapil Sibal was a poet in the making? One who recites poems looking at his mobile phone screen!? Listen on all ye fans of this bard!

Face-bhook or twitter

Anshu — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:41:56 +0000

Either way, it is Amul which has the last say!

Amul

Who says prayers are not answered

Anshu — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:57:42 +0000

This came to me by email:

The tissue is the issue

Anshu — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:17:19 +0000

Cuba has run out of toilet paper. Yes, the isolated island nation, which has survived economic sanctions for nearly 50 years, has finally been laid low by a key shortage of lavatory paper.

State-run company Cimex, which manufactures lavatory paper, has warned that the global economic meltdown as well as a series of devastating hurricanes have hit the production and it may not even be able to import sufficient supplies till the end of the year.

“The corporation has taken all the steps so that at the end of the year there will be an important importation of toilet paper,” a Spokesman for Cimex was quoted by the British newspaper as saying.

Cuba both imports lavatory paper and produces its own, but does not currently have enough raw materials to make it, he said, adding the shipment will enable the state-run company “to supply this demand that today is presenting problems”.

Arrey bhai, why fret and fume. Adopt the Indian style! Simple solution… inexpensive too!

(Apologies for the potty humour!)

But seriously… We’re Indian!

Anshu — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:01:04 +0000

Seriously, we Indians take ourselves too seriously. The world ought to move according to our dictat! And if it doesn’t agree with our sensibilities, off with its head! Whither tolerance?

Directing you to some blog posts with interesting opinions on the Dadagiri Indians are now demonstrating a tad too frequently:

Pritish Nandy: The indiscreet art of Dadagiri

Amit Varma: You Gotta do Sach Ka Saamna

Salil Tripathi: My mother’s fault

Amit Varma: Fighting against censorship in India

Mull on them!

Gavaskar scared of Bouncer and Beamer!!!

Anshu — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:22:27 +0000

Legendary Indian opener Sunil Gavaskar may have made 70s fiery West Indian bowling line up look ordinary, but his former teammate Ravi Shastri has disclosed the little master’s fear for ‘Bouncer and Beamer’.

“For someone who has never been bothered by bouncers and beamers hurled at him by rival fast bowlers, Gavaskar is very scared of dogs. Every time he come across my pets, ‘Bouncer and Beamer’, he breaks out in a sweat,” Ravi Shastri has written in a new book Sunil Gavaskar: Cricket’s Little Master, a tribute to mark his 60th birthday.

Former England all-rounder Ian Botham seconds Shastri on this count.
“One day he went to a phone booth outside Taunton. As he entered the booth, I kept a dog outside… Sunny was so scared of dogs that he stayed inside the booth for two hours,” reveals Botham .