The Great Ganesha

Folks, I am all grown-up now, and am finally moving shop over to my own domain: greatganesha.com. For now, I am using domain mapping, which means that whether you read the blog via feed or via bookmarks, you will not notice anything different (except that it already says “greatganesha.com/….” in the address bar once you’re [...]

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Spartans! Prepare for glory! The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant. That few stood against many. And before this battle was over, that even a god-king can bleed. – Spartan King Leonidas I’m just kidding. This post has nothing to do with the movie 300 other than the geeky fact that [...]

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Let’s face it. All of us desis grew up reading Archie comics. And I’ve blogged about it before. I was definitely an addict. I would look forward to going to the “library” (which, in 80s Bombay were basically privately run places where you could borrow books for cash) and picking up a stack of Archies. [...]

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I blogged about Tintin earlier, when someone from Moldova dropped by the blog. Moldova was once a part of Moldavia, on which Herg? based the fictitious nation of Syldavia (from The Calculus Affair, amongst others). This time, it’s less a case of life meeting comic-book art, than a case of virtual life meeting comic- book [...]

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Sometimes, when it’s really, really late at night here, it’s day time in India. And that’s when I don my costume, zip across the Pacific, then South East Asia, and finally get to India, where I kill vicious crime lords in my spare time. But not to worry, I’m back before the night has ended, [...]

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  I should apologize for the sudden infrequency in posting on this blog. Life sometimes (hard as it may be to believe) gets in the way of one’s blogging. But fear not, because I’ll be trying to get stuff up here every now and then. Just not as frequently as I used to. And don’t [...]

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I was going to post an April Fool’s joke on this blog on April 1. You know, some kind of humorous news item or some other story that I could have claimed to have “discovered” online and reported on here at The Great Ganesha. But then I got to thinking that that is exactly what [...]

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Ok, not Ibiza, but folks, I am off to LA for the rest of the week. I don’t plan to visit Disneyland, I don’t plan to collect $200 and I will certainly not pass ‘Go’. Ok, maybe I’ll pass ‘Go’, but none of that other stuff that the regular riffraff indulge in. Anyhoo, the bottomline [...]

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We all know when The Great Ganesha interviewed The Chaiwallah, a.k.a. Nikhil of The Simple Leaf (remember the interview?). Through a weird twist of fate, Ganesha and Tea meet up once again in the February issue of Little India (the magazine for the Indian diaspora that’s pretty much single-handedly written by Lavina Melwani). The magazine [...]

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So, I just happened to check my SiteMeter, and I noticed that visitor #27 to my site this morning was from none other than the Eastern European nation of the Republic of Moldova. From Chisinau which, as everyone knows, is famous for its Triumphal Arch, amongst other things. Welcome to you, I say. The Triumphal [...]

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