Entries Tagged as ‘WTF’

July 8, 2008

Weird Protest

Even giving consideration to the fact that these are Delhi-ites, this has to be one of the weirdest protests I have seen (via a proud Delhi-ite):

Activists of the Shaktipunj Foundation, an NGO, break computers, printers and other electronic items during the protest on the occasion of Radiation Safety Day at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi [...]

June 26, 2008

A step back.

The idea of a women-only IIT sounds absurd and retrograde.
The suggestion to start India’s first all-women IIT at Amravati near Nagpur in Vidarbha had in fact been mooted by Saint Gadgebaba University vice-chancellor Kamal Singh. Patil followed it up when she became the country’s first woman president last July.
‘A recommendatory note from the president’s office [...]

June 4, 2008

The groan heard around the world…

….(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 [...]

February 11, 2008

Not just a President (2)

…but America could (theoretically) get a President who depends on miracles to solve problems.
“Well I didn’t major in math, I majored in miracles. And I still believe in those, too.” (link)
Mike Huckabee, nominee for the Republican presendential candidate for the ‘08 elections, about his chances to win that nomination. For those who aren’t following, [...]

November 8, 2007

Why ‘Al Pacino’ ?

(In which I officially start a new WTF category)
On the occasion of his birthday, Rediff calls Kamalhasan the ‘Al Pacino’ of Indian cinema. Apart from the idiotic - but widespread in the Indian media - compulsion to seek validation from the West (Hollywood in this case), I wonder why particularly Al Pacino ? Why [...]