The Great Ganesha

What are YOU looking at? Oh, my clone? In that case, it’s fine. Keep on looking.
The FDA (after a few years of debate) says that food from cloned animals and their progeny is safe to eat. Looks like this thing has been on the back-burner for a while (pun intended, I apologize, I couldn’t resist).
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Dow Jones and an India-based company Dharma Investments have created a new financial index that is going to be based on the dharmic principles of Buddhism and Hinduism. No, that does not mean that you can invest in the stock of gods (in which case Ganesha – ahem, ahem! – would certainly be the industry [...]

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So – I was browsing the Times of India online, reading some crappy article (sans byline, of course) about how Rushdie spent more time flirting with some Bollybabe rather than on promoting AIDS awareness or some-such. Finishing that in a few seconds, I followed some articles here and there and then went to the picture [...]

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Sir Edmund Hillary, the lanky New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, won worldwide acclaim in 1953 by becoming the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday in Wellington.
He was 88. [link]

I had the [...]

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Tata Motors unveiled the 100,000-rupee car earlier today at the Auto Expo in Delhi today.
Tata Chairman Ratan Tata talks about his inspiration for the car:
Speaking at the unveiling of the car at a motor show in Delhi, Tata chairman Ratan Tata said: “”I observed families riding on [...]

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Picture source: Split Level by Starlen

Are you a man of India? Do you believe in a non-Jesus God? Well, then you should know – your God cannot help you. Why? Because your God is not Jesus.
Yup. It’s that simple.
(via The India Uncut Blog)
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To compete with Tata’s ~$2,500  small car, Ford is now coming out with its own version in India.
Ford Motor plans to more than double its investment in India to produce a small car for the fast-growing local market and to build an engine manufacturing plant there.
The company is expected to announce on Tuesday that it [...]

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Well, to start with, there’s Zoloft, Wellbutra, Paxil, Celexa, Cymbalta, Lexapro and of course, the oldie-but-goldie Prozac, to name just a few. If you’re not into prescription drugs, you can load up on the over-the-counter codeine derivatives found in your everyday cough syrup. Then you can go “under the counter” (wink wink, nudge nudge). Hell, [...]

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When those Japanese get fixated on a fad, they get fixated on a fad even if it’s as mundane as the eleven-times-table. In today’s NYT:
Bookstores are filled with titles like “Extreme Indian Arithmetic Drills” and “The Unknown Secrets of the Indians.” Newspapers carry reports of Indian children memorizing multiplication tables far beyond nine times nine, [...]

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The backdrop to our beautifully designed wedding reception at ‘Dhanush‘ in Navy Nagar. I got married for the second time in Bombay (to the same person).
Spending five weeks in India after an eight-year hiatus made me painfully aware of a neurological need to go to this place called home. Not going there for almost a [...]

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