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• Hello my friends
• A long indefinite break from the blog
• Avatar – a movie with a green message (Movie Review)
• What is the best way to choose your future mate?
• Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year – Movie Review without spoilers
• Infidelity in the West and in India
• Is Shashi Tharoor’s speech real and relevant?
• FRANK AND FUNNY
• Sex Surveys and research tell us how badly India needs sex education
• Improvements in security arrangements in India after 26/11 (Mumbai Terror Attacks)
• Remembering 26/11 – the Mumbai Terror Attacks
• The Indian government’s green channel for the corrupt
• Test Your Global IQ
• Wishing and Hoping…My Bucket List – (Tag)
• What is Sachin Tendulkar really like?
• Don’t be cheap, be smart
• Should women spend their income on family expenses?
• Where do developmental funds go?
• London Dreams Movie Review
• What are China’s intentions towards India?
• Nature undisturbed
• Don’t be afraid of old age!
• Don’t take the emergency contraceptive pill (ipill) too often!
• Do your bit to halt climate change
• A foreigner’s impression of London, Paris and Switzerland
• Interesting signs from Europe
• Popular posts of the past three months and vacation time for me
• Gender differences in weight gain
• The tragedy of a nation and Mohandas movie review
• Rating your doctor
• Travails of an Indian movie goer
• Puducherry restaurants and eateries review plus inexpensive places to stay
• Vote for me
• Misleading reports about Indians throwing their babies
• Is swine flu more dangerous than other types of influenza or seasonal flu?
• Why the world needs a better looking glass
• India and Pakistan have a long way to go
• Love Aaj Kal movie review
• India’s democracy has its flaws but it is still a democracy
• Bandra Worli Sea Link – a photo post
• Arthakranti – a movement to make India prosperous
• Choosing a life partner on television
• One man’s necessity is another’s luxury
• Morning Walk Movie Review
• Union Budget 2009 -2010
• Kambakht Ishq Movie Review
• The danger of disused laws
• A salute to the Iranian people and Persepolis book review
• New York Movie Review
• What is Hindutva?
• Looking at crime through a class prism
• How can one strengthen primary school education in India?
• The coming of age of Hinduism?
• India scores badly on the Global Peace Index
• Teaching children that girls cook but boys don’t
• Star Trek (2009) movie review
• India’s dynasty politics needs to go
• India is too sweet for me!
• The Indian House Crow should not thrive!
• Why is healthcare neglected in developing countries?
• Some reasons for the outcome of the 2009 Lok Sabha elections
• Summary post, awards and more
• Which is worse: Inequality or Extreme Poverty?
• Kashmir through the eyes of a Kashmiri
• What India was thinking about yesterday, the fourth of May
• Voting day finally arrives
• The onward march of Pakistan’s Taliban
• Math tips on when to stop looking for a better partner!
• The Indian Postal Service takes action!
• Mi Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy Movie Review
• Why we blame victims
• Reader Poll
• Hand analysis and Reading of Lal Krishna Advani
• Our elected representatives don’t really represent us
• Refugees of the world
• Pune signboards (Puneri Patya)
• Videsh Movie Review
• Firaaq Movie Review
• Incest needs public debate and a stringent law to combat it
• Public sector companies eager to hire IIM graduates
• Photographs of Matheran
• Summary Post and two tags
• How many in Pakistan are sympathetic to the extremists?
• India entering the third phase of the tobacco epidemic
• 10 + 5 ways to have a happy relationship and a healthy marriage
• Unfit government employees survive and thrive
• Your income determines your attitude, your values, your beliefs
• The culture vultures hate pre-marital sex
• Delhi 6 movie review
• Top Posts and a blog break
• The Dharavi spirit
• Advertising mistakes
• Summary post of the past fortnight and blog awards
• Mob culture vs pub and mall culture
• Kashmir – where are you heading?
• India’s Taliban on a rampage
• Slumdog Millionaire Review and the Amitabh Bachchan controversy
• British teens and Indian parenting
• Rude or polite, it’s a matter of perspective
• Summary Post of the past fortnight
• Chandni Chowk to China – Movie review
• Top ten myths about Pakistan unraveled
• How stupid are the terrorists!
• The culpability of Satyam’s auditors
• A new bill that could help some criminals
• Corruption is the greatest stumbling block to infrastructure development in India
• Summary post of the past fortnight
• Top Ten movies of 2008
• Best movies of all time (tag)
• Is voting for a political party better than voting for the candidate?
• Will India’s Power and Transport take that big leap forward?
• Ghajini movie review
• Funny signs
• Antulay’s vote bank politics
• Summary post and blog love
• Fragging and suicide in the Army and the general population
• Poor service at shops and malls – a consumer’s travails
• War is not an option after the Mumbai terror attacks
• Rab De Bana Di Jodi – movie review
• Sheila Dixit’s win in Delhi – a new voting era in India?
• Women at Work – a photo post
• German Bakery – Restaurant Review
• Summary Post and some feedback on your feedback
• What pirates have in common with terrorists
• Some tips from someone caught in the Mumbai terror attacks
• What role did we play in the Mumbai terror attack (guest post)
• The aftermath of the Mumbai attack
• A sick and communal SMS doing the rounds during this time of tragedy in Mumbai
• Some reactions of Pakistani media to the terror attacks in Mumbai
• What feminism means to me
• Politicking more important rather than stopping terror
• Why show sympathy to the terror accused in the Malegaon blasts?
• The controversy over Sonal Shah’s appointment by Barack Obama
• Summary Post of the past two weeks
• Gay parents and heterosexual parents – any difference?
• Wearing the duppatta Indian Style (photo post)
• The initial euphoria over Barack Obama
• Dostana Movie Review
• Sectors most affected by the slowdown in the Indian economy
• Quantum of Solace – Movie review
• Calling bloggers and blog readers from and to Mumbai
• A Double Seat Life – photo feature
• Summary post of the past two weeks plus some poll results
• Quirky Tag
• I need your feedback
• Give some credit to Maharashtra
• Fashion Movie Review
• Rural India snapshots
• This blog is on a break for Diwali
• Arranged marriage vis-à-vis a love marriage – which is better?
• Funny buildings in pictures
• Do top management deserve their high salaries?
• What is the solution to India’s high accident rate?
• Summary Post of the past week
• Karzzz – Movie Review
• Legalising live-in relationships
• The Accidental Husband – Review
• Hero worshipping non-heroes
• Summary Post of the past week
• SIMI and Bajrang Dal – can they be compared?
• At what age do you reach your peak?
• Ways to protect yourself from mobile phone and tower radiation
• Kidnap Review
• Summary Post of the past week
• India’s rising defence expenditure is not too high if compared to that of other countries
• Drona – movie review
• The public smoking ban should not go up in smoke
• Getting your due without sucking up
• India’s Retail troubles
• Summary Post and Tags
• No reason for violence
• Welcome to Sajjanpur – Movie Review
• Financial Sector tremors and the effect on fresh graduates
• Muslims turning away from terrorism but the world is against them
• Summary Post of the past week
• The wonder of blogging awards
• A quick nutritious Indian pizza (uttappam)
• Mamma Mia – Movie review
• Visual pollution during the Ganesh Festival
• American or British English?
• Countries from where internet fraud originates and some tips to counter it
• A Wednesday – Movie review
• Summary post of the past week
• Traffic jams at toll plazas
• Dressing for television news
• Pitfalls of stereotyping and objectifying people
• The Ganpati Festival – a slide show
• Summary Post of the past 6 days
• How to write a feature article
• If facilities for women on night shifts are bad it doesn’t mean that night shifts should be banned!
• Mayawati the prime ministerial hopeful – can she be compared to Obama?
• Celebrity Woes
• Rock On!! – Movie review
• Wanted – Movie Review
• Summary post of the past six days
• Bandhs are an Indian disease
• Are foreign pharmaceutical giants making Indians guinea pigs in clinical trials?
• What India was worrying about yesterday
• Mumbai Meri Jaan – Movie Review
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Movie Review
• Summary posts
• Brilliant Award Week
• Seeing India through the eyes of Amul (pictorial)
• The British and the Americans don’t like Marathi “chauvinism”
• Muslim groups trying to contain radical elements in their community
• Calling gays criminals and moral policing by the police
• Summary post of the past week
• Bachna Ae Haseeno – Movie Review
• Thinking about Abhinav Bindra, not just India’s gold medal
• Is your building safe from fire?
• Sari an immodest garment?
• Singh is Kinng – Movie Review
• Summary post of the past two weeks
• Trees with personalities – photo feature
• Do we need a national debate on our abortion law?
• Checking out the other sex
• Ability and Academic Merit – what’s the difference?
• Two tags in One post
• Ugly Aur Pagli – Movie Review
• Movie Review The Mummy – Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
• Indian Democracy – is it shining or is it a sham?
• IIM graduates are preferring to stay back in India
• What’s your society’s badge of honour?
• Lunch at Leopold, dessert at Theo’s and shopping at Colaba Causeway
• Terrorism – citizens need answers!
• Summary Post of the past week
• No humanity towards trafficking victims
• Why I comment
• Between horse traders and traitors who is left?
• It’s not just parents’ attitudes which are obstacles in the way of a girl’s education
• Different education boards creating havoc and heartburn
• Summary Post of the past week
• The Dark Knight – Movie Review
• Instant Chinese Meals – Product Review
• So do you have national pride?
• Sleeping late doesn’t mean you are lazy!
• India’s global competitiveness declining?
• Testosterone overrated?
• Hancock – Movie Review
• Summary Post of the past week
• CBI blames domestic help in Aarushi murder
• Exposure to honking can ruin your hearing
• The Left is now where it belongs – in the Opposition
• Jaane Tu … Ya Jaane Na – Movie Review
• Social conscience can be taught
• Legal working hours and real working hours are different!
• Summary Post of the past week
• Lack of courtesy to Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
• Bollywood moving away from plagiarism?
• Is crime decreasing in the big cities of the world?
• Participating in a reality show? Think again!
• Three Tags in One!
• Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic – Movie Review
• Summary post of the past week
• A packaging trick by Johnson and Johnson!
• Women have feelings just like men do!!
• Academic Intelligence is related to Emotional Intelligence
• Those who dump construction debris should be jailed
• The outsourcing of cheating
• Summary Posts of the last week
• De Taali Movie Review
• A virtual peek into Mumbai – a slide show
• Aamir – movie review
• The Expansionist Meme
• The Devaluation of Cooking
• Summary post of the past week
• Mumbai-Pune Expressway scenery – a photo post
• What’s in your biscuit?
• Blogging mistakes, copyright violations and nasty comments
• Sarkar Raj – movie review
• Buying antique and second hand furniture at Oshiwara Furniture Market in Mumbai (photo-feature)
• Weekly Summary Post
• Attack creative freedom – that’s the mob’s job
• Taxes on petrol and diesel very high in India
• Increase in income and life expectancy don’t always go hand in hand
• Filicide happens all over the world but the reasons differ from society to society
• A meme about myself
• A good cricket captain needs nerves of steel and more
• Weekly summary post
• A major newspaper steals a blogger’s photograph!!
• Refusing legal tender is illegal but nobody seems to care
• Will English dominate India in another fifty years?
• Galloping populations and energy consumption
• Crime and the media
• Dual Citizenship – good or bad?
• Summary posts of the past week
• Bollywood and Hollywood…the twain are set to meet!
• Pesticides creating havoc in India
• Indian youth starting to drink at 19
• Joona Bazaar photo feature
• Does India need a Prevention of Terrorism Act?
• Summary Posts of the past week
• Blaming India for eating too much
• Why weren’t large mammals exterminated in India like they were in many parts of the world?
• Extreme Internet Censorship isolates a country
• Education Cess and Petrol Cess – where’s the money going?
• Speed Racer – Movie Review
• Do children affect the health of a marriage?
• Summary Posts of the past week
• Plastic bottles and pizza boxes are not safe anymore
• An aerial view of Mumbai city
• Be careful before you enroll into that foreign course
• A song which inspires – a tag
• You are eating GM food but you don’t know it
• Iron Man – Movie Review
• The internet can make our private lives public but most people don’t care
• Summary Posts of the past week
• Khuda Ke Liye – Movie Review
• Are all India’s 8 north-eastern states disturbed areas?
• A blogging tag about some favourite things
• The uniqueness of Goa captured in pictures
• Will we ever get used to seeing flesh?
• BRT in India – how great concepts can get ruined
• Away for a short holiday but airing some interesting posts
• Cultural differences between the East and the West
• Let us not be ashamed of our clotheslines
• IPL has hooked the nation
• Summary Posts of the past week
• The trust that humans have in each other varies from country to country
• What was India thinking about on April 16th 2008?
• Why I love supermarkets
• The world will be of mixed race one day
• Pros and cons of being a DINK (double income no kids) couple
• U Me Aur Hum – Movie Review
• Summary Posts of the past week
• Shaurya – Movie Review
• Tibet’s Olympian opportunity
• Don’t buy without checking the weight
• The politics of the Thackerays and Amitabh Bachchan
• Ageing is not a disease!
• Life in Pondicherry – a photo essay
• Summary posts of the past ten days
• Are Indians feeling the shortage of doctors?
• Visual pollution caused by political hoardings
• A visit to Mamallapuram – a photo essay
• People don’t always fall for celebrity advertising
• What foreigners like about working in India
• A veggie worm could be lurking in your salad
• Call it Puducherry or Pondicherry it’s still quite French
• More jobs than ever in India but only in some sectors and only for the educated
• Some interesting posts of the past and this weeks as well…
• Are (or were) Meghalaya and Kerala matriarchal societies?
• The greatest peril of modern society – Celebrity Culture
• 27 Dresses – Movie Review
• Movie Quirks – A Blogging Meme
• Summary posts and something else too
• How to suck up to your boss
• Indian Americans are doing well, but not that well!
• Tipping in India
• Goa gets a bad name after 15 year old girl is murdered
• Naxalism – some reasons and some solutions
• Gurus – should we love them or leave them?
• Summary posts of the past week and some popular posts
• Dangers of eating newsprint
• Job discrimination at the workplace (Part 2)
• Job discrimination is rife all over the world – (Part 1)
• Top sites comparisons India and the world
• Attending Bloggers Meets
• Michael Clayton – Movie Review
• Summary posts of the last week
• India Budget 2008-2009
• This is what Warli folk paintings look like
• A glimmer of hope for domestic workers
• A shining railway Budget 2008 – but at what cost?
• A trip to the Taj Mahal – a slide show
• Some opinions of India from Pakistan
• Jodhaa Akbar – Movie Review
• Summary Posts of the past week
• Enchanted – Movie Review
• Plump is beautiful in India
• When will human beings be satiated?
• A different price for bravery
• Where have the Sparrows gone?
• Bullfighting is an Indian tradition
• Summary posts of the past week
• Humans love to form ghettos
• Euthanasia may be illegal but it’s not unpopular!
• Mithya – Movie Review
• We want to know who the jury is!
• Molestation: Reasons and some solutions
• Freaky electronic scenes
• Summary Posts of the past week
• The difference between the East and the West in pictures
• Do local Mumbaikars resent ‘outsiders’?
• American Gangster Movie Review
• We Own The Night Movie Review
• Do Indian youth really hate the idea of joining the Defense Services?
• Do we have to live with a slow internet?
• Summary posts of the past eight days
• A dream come true for those who will never fly
• Religion has a great future!
• Tarpa Dance Videos
• Twelve things to be wary of while eating out
• The difference between Nationalism and Patriotism
• Mumbai Traffic Police wins a prize!
• Sunday – Movie Review
• Summary posts of the past week
• Stealing power is getting tougher
• Growth is not leading to development in India
• Photographs of the Sydney Test match 2008
• Men being harassed in false dowry cases
• A newspaper defends itself
• Top six movies of 2007
• Summary Posts of the past week
• Peaceful week-end get-away for Mumbaikars
• Are converts accepted in Hinduism?
• Ordinary people who raise their voices are beaten up by mobs
• Some excellent hundred year old diets!
• Halla Bol – Movie Review
• Fame or money for Tata Nano?
• Summary posts of the past week
• The Lead India logo isn’t inspiring
• Country life in India – a slide show
• Is our language divide the biggest divide of all?
• The Golden Compass – Movie review
• Unfair verdict
• Ignore advertising or hate it…but you can’t deny that you need it!
• Summary Posts of the past week
• An example of pathbreaking media
• The Indian Countryside – slide show
• Non-vegetarians get a raw deal in Mumbai?
• Government upset that their (short) working hours highlighted
• Summary Posts of the last Week
• Sonia where are you headed?
• Benazir’s assassination benefited Musharraf
• A greater focus on disease rather than on health?
• Photographs of Hyderabad
• Tips to avoid being cheated while shopping
• A third life for Narendra Modi
• Summary Posts of the past week
• Taare Zameen Par – movie review
• Which city has the coolest bus service and website?
• Words of wisdom from Mahatma Gandhi…in pictures.
• Do Dining and Music mix?
• A new law which prevents adult children from claiming their parents’ property
• The cave temples of Ellora – a photo feature
• Summary Posts of the past week
• I’m off for the weekend
• Politicians least trusted the world over
• Sweet Salted Translations
• No toilets for half of India?
• India has two of the best design schools in the world!
• Designers in great demand in India
• India’s indigenously developed missile
• Summary Posts of the past week
• Want sea food in Thane? There’s Mahesh Lunch Home
• Bollywood’s paychecks continue to grow!
• Prominent doctor trapped in sex determination sting by the BBC
• Getting foreign technical degrees just got tougher in India
• Aaja Nachle – a movie review
• A walk through the Ajanta Caves – photo feature
• Summary posts of the last week
• No post today
• Impact of coaching classes on a nation’s psyche
• The lure of fake food
• Interview at Being a Blogger
• A British reality TV show which arranges marriages
• Advertisers to be reined in!
• Life imprisonment is the only way to reduce acid attacks
• Summary Posts of the last week
• Tracing one’s roots
• Not much learnt from the Uphaar tragedy
• Lone cop stands up to political goons
• Ban the Crooked Police
• Is the government doing enough to curb sex tourism?
• A glimpse of the Aurangabad Caves, Bibi ka Maqbara and Daulatabad fort
• Summary posts of the last week
• Modern Mumbai is one of the most expensive places in the world (with photos)
• Does one have to an extrovert or an introvert?
• The root cause of child labour isn’t just poverty
• The go-getting Buntys of India
• Small town India in pictures
• Electrical lighting has become a symbol of the Goddess Laxmi
• Happy Diwali
• Looks like the world doesn’t want migrants
• Is Musharaff all that bad?
• Jyoti’s murder: Who is to blame?
• Innocent techie suffers due to shoddy police work
• Summary Posts of the Past Week
• World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness rankings
• Transgender issues to be discussed on Tamil TV
• Surrogacy in India – Problems and Laws
• Is torture a necessary evil?
• Jab we met – movie review
• What was India thinking of on the 29th of October 2007?
• Print readership falling in India?
• Summary Posts of the past week
• Evolutionary Meme on Blogging
• Science vs Humanities
• Matrimonial websites get specialised
• The global war against plastic
• Dasara in Pune – a photo essay
• Engineering colleges to be upgraded
• Summary posts of the past week
• Medical Myths
• Coffee shops or hang-out joints?
• Want to see Mumbai’s underbelly? Take a guided tour!
• Has caste-based affirmative action worked?
• Some hoax emails turn out to be real!
• Do we not value life in India?
• Laaga chunari mein daag – movie review
• Summary posts of the last week
• Helping accident victims and doing our duty as citizens
• Why is the divorce rate increasing?
• India’s urban elite not likely to marry outside their religion
• Should you leave that job you hate?
• Job hopping and blogging trends
• India’s population to be two billion in less than a century?
• Summary Posts of the last week
• Meme: What strengths should a writer have?
• Protests against Sonia’s speech on International Non-Violence Day suppressed by media
• Public service ads don’t work but jail does!
• Justice denied to Sikhs
• A post about the Post
• National holidays and work weeks are not always an indication of how hard people work
• Sex Selection is big business in India
• Dealing with loan recovery agents
• Johnny Gaddar – Movie Review
• Summary posts of the past week
• Army called in to control protests over insult to Indian Idol
• Asia is smoking and so are the women!
• Comparison of the conviction rates of a few countries of the world
• Shocking Pollution during the Ganesh Festival
• What kills a marriage quicker: A physical affair or an emotional one?
• India becoming stricter about blood alcohol limits
• Summary Posts of the last week
• The Bourne Ultimatum – movie review
• What or whom do we blame for our terrorism deaths?
• We have enough food but our kids our starving
• A matter of hemlines and air hostesses
• The ragging monster is alive and kicking in India
• America eyeing north-eastern India?
• Summary Posts of the last week
• Why people are religious
• Ram Sethu (Setu) Issue – To build a shipping canal the existence of Ram is denied
• About fake stings and fraudulent journalism
• Asian countries don’t like each other much but they like America
• Does India see itself as sharing common values with the west?
• Youth of two different Indias – a photo essay
• Summary posts of the past week
• Poverty stricken 17 year old school drop-out outshines police
• 12 Indian companies are Asian giants
• The bad effects of too few women
• Controversy over whether to use Broad Gauge or Standard Gauge in Mumbai Metro
• There is a billboard epidemic in India!
• It is possible to arrange love
• Street Marketing in India – a photo essay
• Summary posts of the last week
• The Invasion Movie Review
• Too many policemen on security duty in India
• TV soaps are actually educating rural women in India!
• Are rich countries the least corrupt?
• Sex workers not to be treated like criminals anymore
• Hey Baby Movie Review
• Summary posts of the last week
• Trying to stop large retailers is not in national interest
• Will the reverse brain drain become a flood?
• If India has 3 universities in the top 200, who gets the credit?
• High wedding expenditure is a disease in Indian society
• Music shows are bringing Indians together
• Poor police to people ratio forces common man to fend for himself
• Summary posts of the past week
• Rickshaw rally in India
• Chak De Movie Review
• Violent Crime in different parts of the world – a small analysis
• Paying tribute to Indian soldiers on Independence Day
• Revered once, doctors today face brickbats
• Ordinary Truck Art on a highway
• The connection between the number of hits on a post and comments
• Summary posts of the last week
• Sleeper cells proliferate while government sleeps
• Some critical reasons for growth in medical tourism
• Societies that are traditional + affluent have low birth rates
• Should places of worship have dress codes?
• Pot can cause mental illness says The Lancet
• Street food has less bacteria than a lot of restaurant food
• Summary posts of the last week
• Pay cheques of Bollywood stars have doubled
• Corporal punishment in schools should be banned
• Social drinking is catching on, athough slowly!
• Students made guinea pigs in sex study
• Sanjay Dutt goes to jail
• Bad teachers teach bad yoga
• Thinking Blogger Award
• Indians are more traditional than other peoples
• Photo Essay of Life in India
• Summary posts of the last week
• Fake publicity stunts by political parties should get wider coverage
• How does India treat the north-easterners?
• Sound Baffles can tackle loud sounds caused by heavy traffic
• Trade is better than Aid!
• Why is eve-teasing so common in India?
• Movie Review Zodiac
• Summary posts of the last week
• Indians are the one of the most hardworking people in the world
• Renuka Chowdhury is a woman to admire
• Where does India stand as a tourism hub?
• India’s concrete makeover to include railway stations
• Intellectual Blogger award
• Technology can help improve India’s conviction rate
• Listen to the voices of moderate Muslims
• Summary posts of the last 10 days
• A vegetarian thali in Mulund – at the Rajdhani
• Two new laws concerning women in India
• In defense of the Indian Media
• Security in Mumbai is in place but it isn’t good enough
• How will India cope with skill shortages?
• India on the global culture map like never before
• Should we kill our stray dogs?
• Plenty of jobs for animators in India
• Are the very clothes you wear harming you?
• Indians in terror plot: Is it really shocking?
• What a tourist can expect in China
• A book that counters the Hinduphobia of the west
• Die Hard 4 movie review
• Movie Review of Sivaji by someone who doesn’t understand a word of Tamil
• Pune is being re-built like many Indian cities – but at what cost?
• How will India deal with global warming?
• Will Hollywood beat Bollywood in India?
• Why Mayawati’s assets are not a problem for the Indian government
• Expressway accidents on the rise?
• Lord Patten feels that economic progress will bring about a demand for democracy from the Chinese people on BBC HardTalk
• India’s e shopping figures going up and up
• Why choose the Seven Wonders of the world by popular vote?
• Will the ‘Sex Toy’ condom be banned in India?
• Failed States of the world
• Good news for job seekers in India
• Indian tourists are not the world’s worst!
• Abandon veil Pratibha Patil tells Hindu women
• Motor vehicle thefts are rising in India but the solution may be near
• Mumbai in a museum
• Cheeni Kum Movie Review
• Eating out in in China
• One in every 50 Indians owns a PC today
• India will get a woman president for the first time in history
• Rajinikanth is an Indian phenomenon
• Mumbai to take on a new skin
• 12000 Grain Banks to be set up in India in the next few years
• Oceans 13 movie review
• Bar girls evicted from their homes
• A Green Oscar for India?
• Violent protesters should pay for their misdeeds
• A Pakistani General is worth Rs 500 million!
• If Budhia runs a marathon his health can be ruined forever
• Pirates of the Caribbean 3 movie review
• Shrek 3 movie review
• Gurjjar riots expose the weak arm of the law in India
• The gap between the rich and the poor in India is not that wide
• India in color- a photo essay
• Is jumping customs duty not such a big deal in India?
• Yet another blow to the judicial system
• The Urban Chinese
• Indians believe their judiciary to be tainted
• Child workers are exploited and often abused
• Shootout at Lokhandwala movie review
• China’s claim to an Indian state is preposterous
• The four cities of China
• Instead of making the rich poorer lets make the poor richer
• China and India – an inevitable comparision
• Hey! Will post soon!
• Will be away for 10 days
• Landless labourer from Bihar becomes a successful mushroom farmer
• Adoption in India – how to go about it
• Moral Policing in India reaches new depths
• Life in a Metro movie review
• Corrupt officials siphon away relief funds
• The growing suicide rate in India – the reasons
• Spiderman 3 – movie review and box office collections
• A little girl discovered by the Mensa Program
• Suicide rates of the world and why people kill themselves
• Old people are revered in India, not neglected
• What it means to be a Mumbaikar!
• India to be fifth largest consumer market by 2025
• An invention to stop drunk drivers
• Indian print media in trouble?
• The ban on women working night shifts is a symptom of the poor status of women
• Sonia Gandhi is on Time’s most influential people of the year list
• Thousands of illegal migrants from developed nations disappear in India
• Fruit Juices – Product Review
• Shocking Fake Encounter
• Bheja Fry – Movie Review
• Consumer Expenditure Survey shows Indians are spending more than ever on food
• Those who pay the highest taxes are not the richest…film stars for example!
• Fourteen reasons why Indians are not as healthy as they should be
• Tea Centre at Churchgate – a review
• A funny battered car
• The song Pyar Kiya to Darna Kya from Mughal E Azam
• India has one of the highest cancer rates in the world
• Portrayal of women in Bollywood then, now and in the past.
• Indian youth get their knowledge of sex mostly from friends, porno films and “self-reading”
• Shortage of hotels in India to be alleviated by 2010
• The Namesake – a comparision between the book and the movie
• Tele spammers to be fined heavily and their lines cut – finally
• When will Indian Railways clean up their act?
• India’s “moral police” have political backing
• Sudden showers in the western ghats
• Tiny review of the new theme – Neo Sapien
• More and more Indians are seeking foreign holidays
• A growing trend to don the burqa in India?
• Matheran the best hill station near Mumbai and Pune
• Chennai shows us a profitable way to dispose of garbage
• Pakistan takes a step back at SAARC
• Food habits and exercise trends in India
• Is Sanjaya Malakar as bad a singer as he is said to be?
• The Spirit of India – a photo essay
• The moral police clamp down on couples
• Technology, not fines will deter offenders
• Blogosphere’s Code of Conduct
• Designations matter a lot in India
• A promotion makes an IT professional happy for just six months!
• Fashion Street for cheap cotton ready-mades
• Stray dogs a huge problem in Indian cities
• Which Indian city has the most millionaires?
• Divorce rates of the world
• Internet marraige bureaus thriving in India
• Internet advertising to grow by 43 percent by 2011
• Is this woman pregnant?
• KEM hospital’s disaster management system praised by The Lancet
• The Dark Side of the Internet
• Pop Tates at Mulund for Continental food
• Tigers in India down to a thousand?
• Sunset on Marine Drive
• Supreme court stays OBC quotas
• What Management Guru NR Narayana Murthy has to say about India’s failure in the World Cup
• Which is the best airline and airport in India?
• America’s immigrant system is falling apart says The Economist
• Is poverty declining in India?
• The Namesake movie Review
• India’s tough foreign adoption laws to go
• A big thank you to my readers
• Broadcasters to lose a fortune and for advertisers its a waste of money as India has lost the World Cup
• Excerpt on the Wiki from The World is Flat
• Sex education in schools can help counter the ill effects of porn
• Liz Hurley and Arun Nayar still hot selling items on Indian streets
• Healthy or Unhealthy soups?
• Surrogate Ads blatantly displayed
• Free speech online gives schools and colleges the jitters
• India has reasons to be be wary of China
• Hollywood distorts history by portraying the ancestors of our Parsees as barbarians?
• Shiny Railway balance sheets but what about consumer comfort?
• Police attack Geo TV office in Pakistan
• Aggressive comparative advertising by largest retail chain
• Indians wary of the stock market, prefer Mutual Funds
• Doctors to be penalised if they give poor post operative care
• How doctors reacted when first confronted with the idea of being taken to task by consumer courts
• Valuable and rare manuscripts are now online
• Indian snacks as bad as western fast food
• A photo essay of a traffic signal in Mumbai
• The 36 Forbes Billionnaires do reflect the new India because now we can afford cheese
• The Pursuit of HappYness movie review
• The Last King of Scotland movie review
• Mumbai to wield the stick where littering is concerned
• R Mall at Mulund – a review
• C Grade movies and porn go underground
• More and more poor in India are buying cell phones
• The world has changed its opinion about major powers
• Vegetable noodles and Dal noodles – are they healthy?
• Professor Sabharwal’s murder probe in trouble
• Nishabd the movie – why the theme of the film makes me uncomfortable
• Railway touts to face cameras but the 90 day in advance reservation system stinks
• No long-term rehabilitation for street children
• INS Vikrant – the naval museum
• What I liked and did not like about Budget 2007
• Mumbai Pune Expressway safety issues
• Government officials used slum development funds to fatten their perks!
• International Maths prize for Indian woman
• Is India doing something about Trans Fats?
• Ghost Rider movie review
• Five Things I love about being Indian
• Urban Indians do not think highly of budget allocations
• Indians are thrifty but only half bank their savings – a survey
• How to wear a sari video
• Are Actors the most stressed out people?
• Corruption in slum rehabilitation project
• High salaries and lucrative placements only for those from elite educational institutions
• Booking of e-tickets on Indian Railways spirals!
• Lets not call them terrorists. Call them criminals
• Pampering VIP’s and neglecting the common man in India
• Indian government decides to adopt girls to stop female feoticide
• Plans to rid Mumbai of slums by 2015
• An Indian doctor gets recognition for his work towards the greatest medical discovery of the 20th century
• A campaign to re-elect Hon.Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam as the President Of India
• Nirmal Lifestyle at Mulund Mumbai – Review
• A one man army is saving unborn girls in Punjab
• Street children are being denied an education
• Fight against corruption takes a small step forward
• Who produces more engineers? The US or India?
• This is how AIDS is spreading in India!
• New roads and new flyovers = brand new slums
• Why some kids seem immune from the bad effects of television violence and violent video games
• Black Friday – a movie review
• Survey shows that Indian youth are conservative
• Britain wants Indian Docs out but India wants them badly
• Traffic Signal is worth a watch – a movie review
• After 7/11 security in Mumbai is still on a high
• Kolkata to be a outsourcing hub
• Parzania not being shown by multiplex owners in Gujarat (review)
• Pay Hikes to be highest in India in 2007
• Survey shows that Indian companies willing to source talent from foreign countries
• Money and success without any formal education
• How Global Warming will affect India
• Britain is not cashing in on India’s growth as much as other nations
• Study shows that Shah Rukh is doing well on KBC
• The Congress losing civic polls in Mumbai and Pune…a portent for the future
• When will we have a better justice system?
• The middle-class needs to vote…slum dwellers do it for a bowl of chicken soup!
• Blogs increasing in number all over the world
• Some tips to prevent the most common cyber crime – cyber stalking
• Bal Thackeray’s election campaign ads
• Is Britain as multi-cultural as India?
• Shilpa wins Big Brother and jolly good too!
• Political parties play politics over serial killings and waste public money by issuing ads!
• People don’t trust the law when it comes to punishing rash drivers
• ‘Health’ drink Enviga trying to cash in on the health trend
• Myths and Misconceptions about Infertility
• Abandoned baby girls are finding homes in India
• Will Sanjay Dutt go to jail for possessing an AK-56?
• The Economist says Bihar is improving but slams it all the same
• We don’t want to admit that our kids go missing!
• India will be number two economy in the world by 2050
• Child Marraige and the law in India
• Guru – a film not to my liking – a review
• The glory (gory?) days of globalisation are here
• A good reason for me to blog
• Real Estate in India on the upswing
• Tribals who score high on Mensa tests need help
• Something seriously wrong with the diet of Indian children
• Blogs are a boon
• South Mumbai serial killer or the ‘beer man’ – complete and updated report
• The Shilpa Shetty Big Brother fracas and video
• Doctors cannot be bribed legitimately anymore
• Why do people abuse complete strangers?
• Muncipal schools in India teach very poor English
• Journalists are not above the law and have to pick up their dog poop!
• Bitti Mohanty’s family hell bent on saving their spoilt rapist son from the law
• Male teachers banned in primary schools in Delhi to prevent sexual abuse
• The Top 10 Bollywood and Hollywood entertainers of 2006
• Don’t want to vote? Then register your no-vote!
• Indian Muslims and higher education
• Who uses the VIP entrance to enter Delhi airport?
• Celebrities may be narcissistic but politicians are worse
• Should ideas be researched?
• 23 ways to prevent molestation in public
• Doctors in the dock for arm amputation after a fracture
• Week-end getaway in the Western Ghats
• Real life molestation caught on camera
• Britain does not want Indians but India does
• A basic human need is to reject others
• Happy New Year everyone!
• India’s most notorious serial killer – the madman Raman Raghav
• The most gruesome serial killings in India. Read the whole, complete and updated version of the story here
• British Rule in India and Nazi rule. What is the difference?
• Find out how much energy you consume
• Bollywood and Hollywood do not mix
• Dating does (and should) lead to marraige say teens
• Four ways to use your left-overs
• Some men have regressive attitudes towards women, but these can be changed
• If you want to see animals, go not just to Africa, but to Ruaha
• Not just Trans Fats. Cooking oils can contain toxins too
• Worst Chinese at the best mall
• Prahlad Kakar shares with us his passion for filmmaking
• Organic Food may not be ethical, but it will save the world
• The government does not know what it means by the term ‘Minorities’!
• A quick, cheesy, tasty, and nutritious pasta
• Is the Beauty Care industry a fraud?
• How you can help young people manage their depression and grief
• Abhishek likes fullblooded Ash
• Continental food in Thane – Restaurant review
• Are India’s women more politically empowered than American women?
• Do parents take over a career counselor’s role?
• The best aim and shoot camera with a professional touch. Canon PowerShot A 610
• Dune Ride in Dubai
• Drunk driving is a major cause of accidents in India
• Is India not an economic miracle?
• What does it take to be a model today?
• Racist remarks really hurt
• Hysterical activists or illogical reporters?
• We don’t like talking about sex
• Piyush Pandey – the gentle rebel
• The poor in our country simmer with discontent
• The Parent-Teacher relationship and academic performance
• Fine Dine – Mulund Restaurant Review
• Graduate Quality worries IT companies
• How a film-maker adds value to the original idea
• God doesn’t need bribing and he doesn’t need sucking up to
• Remember Kargil?
• The story of one of India’s biggest brands – the Taj
• Half the software engineers not good enough?
• I don’t blog because I am lonely, hate editors or want to make money
• Accident victims don’t get help in time. Here’s one reason.
• Age of Consent is too low in most developed countries
• Unreal Woman
• Brad, say you’re sorry
• You’ve consumed this chemical cocktail
• Mohammed Khan – An advertising great at his candid best.
• Living with Diabetes
• Almost 45,000 kids go missing in India
• Advertising on-line. Pros and cons.
• Munnabhai’s pal pal inspired by Cliff Richard song
• The myth of the consumer unendurables!
• Elsie Nanji – an unlikely heroine of Indian Advertising.
• India deserves the Nuclear Deal
• Indian burglars get more savvy
• Brangelina plays hide and seek
• The Garden ad film – a technical triumph
• Road Rage. Yet again.
• Movie review: The Departed
• Setting advertising standards in India
• Do Unmarried People secretly crave for a spouse?
• South India is better developed than North India says CNN IBN
• Cyrus Oshidar of MTV talks about India and about his work. And about how he gets his ideas.
• Faces from a small town in India
• Fergusson College shame on you
• Murder by domestic workers in India
• Preeti Vyas Giannetti – one of the most powerful businesswomen in India.
• Chinese Palace – Value for money Chinese food in Tardeo
• Hotel Miramar at Daman
• Life After Sale
• Children demand advertised products on Television
• Don – a film review
• The legend of Raymond’s Complete Man
• Thinking of taking a trip to Daman?
• Multi-cultural, multi-racial India
• Aggression in children can lead to tragedy.
• Buying an apartment or a house – what does one look for?
• Product Category Creation – a case study of how Levers carved itself a niche in the deodorant market.
• Why do Indians prefer sons?
• The women priests of Pune, India – they earn and they learn.
• Behind the scenes of an ad film.
• Media portrayal of women
• Does Brand Extension or Sub-Branding work?
• Unequal Education
• Matheran hotel review – Verandah in the forest
• Managing Corporate Real Estate
• MainLand China Pune – restaurant review
• COOK KING
• Dalits in India – BBC has it wrong
• Escape a murder charge – legally!
• Dermatology Myths – Misconceptions about your skin
• The Art of Corporate Gifting…or is it bribing?
• Do we know why we follow certain rituals?
• Misconceptions about your eyes. Ophthalmology Myths!
• Misconceptions about your Ears – ENT Myths!
• Salaam Namaste – a film review
• The Indian education system has failed
• Fear of Parent –Teacher Meets
• Widowed. Divorced. Unmarried. Single mothers in India face an uphill task
• How to choose the right school? A small scale survey amongst prominent schools and parents gives an insight.
• A touch of class – what should a man wear to get elegant, stylish look?
• Egypt for Indians
• Metals and Toxins in food packaging
• The relationship between schooling and professional success
• What did Aishwarya say to win the Miss World title?
• Unhealthy Noodles
• Lage Raho Munnabhai – a film review
• Crash – movie review
• The Island – movie review.
• Vaccinations to give your children and why – a check list
• When should one see a psychiatrist?
• Feeling dizzy? You might have BPPV.
• Is Health Insurance the answer?
• Tobacco kills
• A Stretch in Time – why brands bomb
• Health Insurance for heart disease
• Why the young die of heart attacks
• Why men rape
• A Writers Woes
• Over cooking, microwaving, re-heating and re-frying destroys essential nutrients
• Depression, nervousness, anxiety and irritability? Blame it on the food
• Vaccination for adults
• Are we raising a myopic generation?
• Wife Beating – men batter women for trivial reasons
• Child-Abuse of the Emotional Kind
• The safest drop of blood is your own
• You’re fat because you want to be
• India’s sex ratio – a sad state of affairs

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Countries from where internet fraud originates and some tips to counter it A Wednesday – Movie review Summary post of the past week Traffic jams at toll plazas Dressing for television news Pitfalls of stereotyping and objectifying people The Ganpati Festival – a slide show Summary Post of the past 6 days How to write a feature article If facilities for women on night shifts are bad it doesn’t mean that night shifts should be banned! Mayawati the prime ministerial hopeful – can she be compared to Obama? Celebrity Woes Rock On!! – Movie review Wanted – Movie Review Summary post of the past six days Bandhs are an Indian disease Are foreign pharmaceutical giants making Indians guinea pigs in clinical trials? 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