Category Archives: Humor

How To Become A Spiritual Guru

Becom­ing a spir­i­tual guru is not as dif­fi­cult as it may seem.
There are one or two guides already writ­ten on the web, but after my pop­u­lar Rule­book for Indian TV News Pro­duc­ers, I thought I would write my own guide to becom­ing a Spiritual Guru.

Appear knowl­edge­able about at least one ancient phi­los­o­phy and way of life.

The Straight Dope FAQ on Indian Elections 2009

Or what news­pa­pers and media will not tell you about the 2009 Indian Par­lia­men­tary Elec­tion.
Will the new gov­ern­ment go in for reform?

Absolutely! Though there may be a slight dif­fer­ence between what every­one under­stands by reform and what the gov­ern­ment means by reform. From the government’s per­spec­tive reform means re-forming the gov­ern­ment. The party in power

Rulebook for Indian TV News Producers

Any new­bie TV News Pro­ducer who wants to com­pete with the top Indian news chan­nels will be well advised to com­ply with the fol­low­ing guidelines:

All news is BREAKING NEWS. This also means that if there is no news, BREAK all jour­nal­ism rules to get BREAKING NEWS.
TV news chan­nels are in the busi­ness of TRPs,

Virtues of Politicians

I’m sick and tired of all the politician-bashing that blog­gers seem addicted to these days. Why do we have to be so crit­i­cal all the time? Why not see the glass half-full? Decid­ing to be an opti­mist, I present “Virtues of Politi­cians”:
Politi­cians have great ora­tory skills.
Enthralling thou­sands of peo­ple at ral­lies who stand lis­ten­ing in

QOTD — 10th Oct 2007

After the intense and enlight­en­ing dis­cus­sion on an ear­lier post — An Unquiet Mind Over Mat­ter — I couldn’t help resist shar­ing today’s Quote of the Day from The Quotation’s Page. It’s a per­fect rejoin­der that serves a sump­tu­ous dessert of humor!
Those who believe in tele­ki­net­ics, raise my hand
– Kurt Von­negutUS nov­el­ist (1922 — 2007)

Religion vs. Atheism in Parenting

A few weeks back, I read Richard Dawkins in The God Delu­sion say:
I want us to flinch when we hear of a ‘Chris­t­ian child’ or a ‘Mus­lim child’. Small chil­dren are too young to know their views on life, ethics and the cos­mos. We should no more speak of a Chris­t­ian child than of a

Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Mammoth Task Ahead

The Indo-US Nuclear Deal has become like the story of The Blind Men and an Elephant.

Let’s see how.
#1: Man­mo­han Singh hang­ing to the Tail
Think­ing that this was the end of the rope for energy ambi­tious India, Singh decided to hold on to it. He warned oth­ers “not to miss the bus”.
Alas, he didn’t know he’ll have to

To My Readers

There was once a Ram­bodocWho twisted word and min­dA­long came An Unquiet Min­dAnd soon they were one of a kind
Not for­get­ting her­self, Aika­ter­ine joinedOemar’s ran­dom mus­ings entwinedThiru was perched on a spotNo won­der as he was on blogspot
Priyank was fly­ing in the cloud­While Arun thought out loudSree’s views, and Nita with her wide angle view­Brought many top­ics in

Jaadu ki Jappi’ prevents robbery

After the Munnab­hai style Gand­hi­giri worked in the case of Amer­i­can green card seek­ers, his “magic hug” resolved another prob­lem (thanks to GF’s blog):
The Wash­ing­ton Post reports:
It started about mid­night on June 16 when a group of friends was fin­ish­ing a din­ner of mar­i­nated steaks and jumbo shrimp on the back patio of a Dis­trict of Colum­bia

Leaning Minarets, Not-so-leaning Tower

The Lean­ing Tower of Pisa no longer leans quite so much after a £20 mil­lion project to save it was hailed a com­plete suc­cess yes­ter­day. The tower, which was on the verge of col­lapse, has been straight­ened by 18 inches (45 cen­time­tres) return­ing it to its 1838 posi­tion.
Did you know that the Tower is actu­ally