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 [...]
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 [...]
….(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 [...]
…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, [...]
(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 [...]
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