WW: Tiger Mauling Incident Dredges Up a Memory
byEarly this week, this news article was all over the papers about that guy who fell into a tiger’s enclosure in New Delhi Zoo…
Newspaper Reports
The Rape of Innocence
byThis blog post refers to the events that took place last week – the rape of a 6-year old in school. Today, Snubnose came…
Guilty Pleasures…
byIn this funny article in The Guardian, the reporter interviews Michelin award-winning chefs about their favorite guilty pleasure foods. The stuff that came out…
The Power of a Chocolate-Chip Cookie
byA very interesting article in the New York Times attempts to explain how and why we end up overeating. Dr. Kessler is the head…
Happy Birthday, Salman Rushdie
bySalman Rushdie’s birthday is apparently a sign for Islamic fundamentalists to once again bring up death threats. These death threats first happened 20 years…
Father Attempting to Sell his Daughter
byThe father of Rubina, the star of Slumdog Millionaire is in the news for the past couple of days for trying to sell his…
Mommas rule in India!
byWhat do you think of this random article in the New York Times (no less) about the influence of Indian mothers on their sons…
What should I have achieved by age 35 ?
byOf late, I have been really short of ideas for this blog…just been writing random reviews of books I randomly read, and movies I…
Interesting Article about Food and Money
byhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/your-money/07money.html?_r=2&em The following para from the article really seems to make a lot of sense to me : Various studies (and common sense) suggest…
No more Side Middle Birth (SMB)
byThe controversial SMB (The Indian Railways latest attempt at torture) is going to be removed after numerous customer complaints. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200902051322.htm I have never seen…