The Great Ganesha

What if you’re a broke, starving grad student? And what if suddenly you have a burning desire to buy a villa in Florence? What do you do? Well, that’s easy. All you have to do is get someone else to pay for it!
Before you start throwing tomatoes at your computer screen, let me just say: [...]

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So, it turns out that Paul Vance, the writer of the famous song Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, is not dead. Hm. That’s good to know. I didn’t know that he had died, but it’s good to know he’s been resurrected.
Nonetheless, there was another guy named Paul Van Valkenburgh, who really died. [...]

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For the first time ever, and in an exclusive for this blog, I interview Nikhil Roychowdhury, Founder-CEO and President of The Simple Leaf, a newly formed, up-and-coming start-up which sells excellent (I speak from experience) loose-leaf tea. He buys his tea from India (amongst other countries) and sells it to tea-drinkers throughout the US. His [...]

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So, in the vein of recent “offbeat news” postings that I’ve been doing, here’s one more
Those of you who had the pleasure of being in the US during the Clinton years, might also remember one of the highlights from then. No, I’m not talking about the budget surplus, I’m talking about Miss Cleo! Remember her? [...]

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It looks like Musharraf is to appear on The Daily Show next Tuesday (September 26th) to promote his new book.
Wow. I think this might be the first time that Jon Stewart has had an international dignitary (and I use this word loosely) of this level on his show. Kudos to Jon.
Here’s where I found out [...]

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Notwithstanding my opinion on using ‘Mumbai’, this is serious.
A friend forwarded me an email the other day and it has to with the bomb blasts that affected Bombay on July 11th of this year. So many people have complained about the vaccum of governmental support that existed both, in the events leading up to the [...]

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So folks, as you can see, I’ve got a new theme happening. Just feeling my way around. Going to try it on for a couple of days and see what it feels like. Who knows? I may switch back to good ol’ Regulus in a couple of days.
It’s the good, old-fashioned American way. If it [...]

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Perhaps I’m getting soft in my old age, but as I was walking to the library today, I was hit in the face with this dash of red. Appropriately, the sign said ‘Stop’. And so I did.

my mind is… (XXV)
my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell
and hearing and [...]

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Arzan at news views and analysis writes about an India Today article on blogging in Bombay. Featured are Amit Varma, Peter Griffin, Bombay Addict [who stopped by here, not too long ago], Arzan Sam Wadia and Govindraj Ethiraj. Says Arzan,
The author, Riddhi Shah, gives a good overview about the whole phenomenom of blogging about [...]

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Earlier, I posted about the nutcase posing as a terracotta soldier in China in the name of art. Then, Erlkoenigs Tochter of kuriosa country alerted me to this article about another fruitcake in Norway acting crazy, yet again, in the name of art.
Reindeer Man is not another superhero. Nor is it even a man. [...]

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