In this day and age of high oil prices, and environmental concerns, one person is not afraid to speak the truth. Matthew DeBord argues that the GM behemoth Hummer - often mistaken as a male attempt to cover other…um….shortcomings - needs to be saved; as a symbol of American male virility, or something:
GM desperately needs [...]
In more ways than one. These aren’t scenes from some pop-concert, as might be expected, but the most misleadingly named World Youth Day being held at Sydney.
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Update: To elaborate briefly, what dispppoints me is that young people are embracing a religous hogwash with fervor one expects them to associate with a say, Christina Aguilera (or [...]
Well, apparently you should.
Matt Harding is a big ’star’ on Youtube, thanks to the spread of his viral videos, which shows him doing a short, weird, jiggly dance routine in various places around the globe - from Mumbai to Timbuktu. He has three of them so far with the latest being released just last month [...]
One of my recurrent peeves with bars down under is how so many of them misuse their ‘top-shelf’.
And it is not just restricted to local pubs, but many of the classier, up-market establishments are guilty as well.
The ‘top-shelf’ is supposed to be reserved for the superior quality (and thereby more expensive) spirits and liqueurs; your [...]
Occasional re-readings of good old Plum’s extensive output can work wonders in perking up the depressed soul (second only to the restorative effects of a w. and soda brought to your favorite armchair by a trusted, brainy butler) .
Should be a mandatory prescription, or something.
No matter how many times you have read it, lines such [...]
….(well at least through the hallway of our floor, or more exactly by the two people in adjacent cubicles)… was me venting after having read this.
I suppose I should grin and bear the pj, having heard worse in my lifetime. But I feel a sense of indignation; after all, people seem to be getting upset [...]
Last week (18th of May) to be exact, marked our anniversary of stay Down Under; a good time, I suppose, to reflect upon the upon the differences in lifestyle, attitudes, career-prospects etc. between the USA and Australia.
Unfortunately, a further move within Australia - this time to the west coast of the country, Perth - is [...]
…..when I went home recently after a gap of 3+ years did not involve the burgeoning number of new shopping malls, or the new fly-overs, or the sudden new-fangled fad for Mehendi (Gariahata crossing was chock-full of Mehendi-wallahs adorning nubile arms), or even the (as Dipanjan had warned) inflated value of the rupee [...]
I do hate the old-hag manner of going ‘things used to be better in the days..yadda yadda….’, but in case of flying (on airplanes), the statement is probably true.
Or else, I must have been much less demanding and easily pleased twenty three years ago, which was the last time I flew half-way around the [...]
Back in Australia where the lack of constant noise is deafening, but the cooler temperatures - not to mention the absence of humidity - of winter about to set in, is quite welcome.
We had a sensation of returning ‘home’ as we walked into the apartment, which is weird considering we were coming back from a [...]
On the way to Calcutta/Kolkata …..a city chock full of emotions, brimming with memories and in my semi-nomadic existence, perhaps one true place to call home.
Last time in the city was three years back - a quick, extremely hectic 7-day trip. The trip before that was after a 3-year break as well. Was bit of [...]
Not exactly what De Coubertin envisaged (Image from New York Times).
The flame did not actually out ‘die out’, but had to be extinguished several times, as pro-Tibetian protesters disrupted the Paris leg of the Olympic torch relay. This was after similar protests in London (in addition to protests by Uighur Muslims in Istanbul) and certainly [...]
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