India’s defense forces have decided to rescue French merchants of death, Dassault, and promise them $10 billion and a few millions in change over the next few years for 18 planes and 110 assembly kits. So, why as a loyal Indian citizen, am I not rejoicing that we are finally modernizing our air force?...
Read more »
The following is an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory like God. Dr Mukesh Batra, head of the Batra Homeopathy establishment has been awarded one of India’s highest civilian honors. An award hitherto reserved for lesser actors who make good Lays advertisements has now gone to a man known for messing with allopathy and peddling what many...
Read more »
While live cricket scores from the India V Australia match continue to show depressing results for the Indian team one corporate is refusing to give up on the boys in blue. “We don’t have other sports in India. It doesn’t matter so much to the average Aussie if they lose in cricket. They have...
Read more »
If there is a God he’s one cruel sadist. I have spent this week writing in defense of terribly written works of Salman Rushdie, cops in Bangalore (from lawyers in Bangalore, no less) and now I thought I’d have to write in defense of the one and only Barkha Dutt. The Game Indian Twitter...
Read more »
Satanic Verses is a bad book, it’s not worth this kind of time. It’s worse than even commercially successful Chetan Bhagat’s works. Yet, Salman Rushdie deserves our protection. And, yes, everyone involved in this story is a prize fool. A few weeks ago I wrote about a strange organization in the middle of an...
Read more »
Madhya Pradesh wants to put people in jail for 7 years for eating beef. Well, that’s a bit harsh even for a lipservice law aimed at hoodwinking a vote bank. Here’s why this law should be repealed (10 marks): 1. The law aims to please a religious minority: ‘Hindus who will be hoodwinked’. I...
Read more »
It is a dumb idea for Walmart to walk into India in the current environment. For one, Uma Bharti has promised to burn the first Walmart down. She’ll do it. She’s got the time. She doesn’t have a real job. If a leader of the center of right, “for trade” party is happy to...
Read more »
A charity for insanely rich people has been set up to help out Vijay Mallya now that Kingfisher Airlines is on the verge of failure. In many ways I don’t care one way or the other, but if my tax funds go into saving an airline, I really don’t see why it should be...
Read more »
The price of one litre of petrol in Bangalore is now Rs 76.30. Almost every dweeb in a political party, including some in the ruling coalition, sees it as a fine opportunity to weaken the dweebs running this country. People in Bangalore and those on faraway planet twitter are upset as well. Bangalore is...
Read more »
Why the fuck are condom sales down? I asked myself this. I was not forced to ponder on these weighty issues of social health by the Times of India. Okay, who am I kidding, after a week of not getting the Times due to their stupid stupid full page ads , I resubscribed. I...
Read more »
