Tag Archives: Humor

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)

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