Adventurous In Delhi (4)
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The most shocking comment of the week comes from Delhi’s chief minister, Sheila Dikshit. A journalist named Soumya Viswanathan was shot dead in Delhi earlier in the week, driving home from work at around 3am, not an unusual time for a journalist to be getting home. She was 25. And Dikshit had the gall to say: All by herself till 3 am at night in a city where people believe...you know...you should not be so ...
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The Bag Lady (1)
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Mudra Mehta reveals the different attitudes men and women bring to buying bags. I wonder how many bags she bought as research for her post. I’ll add to her observations by pointing out that most men only care about how functional a bag is, while women look at bags as fashion accessories. For a man, having one bag for daily use is just fine; for a woman, that would be equivalent to owning just one ...
Dear Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan (2)
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Dear Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan BBC reports that you have recently called on women in Saudi Arabia to “wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.” You say that “showing both eyes encourage[s] women to use eye make-up to look seductive.” I believe, sir, that showing only one eye will make matters worse. You see, whenever a woman and a man are together and the woman blinks, the man might think that she ...
Savita Bhabhi For President (1)
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Barack Obama, John McCain—watch out! (Manish is my fellow campaign manager.) The India Uncut Blog © 2007 Amit Varma. All rights reserved. Visit: India Uncut * The IU Blog * Rave Out * Extrowords * Workoutable * Linkastic
Sarah Palin’s Foreign Policy Credentials (2)
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America has long been generous to comedians, electing dudes like Dan Quayle and George W Bush for their derision, and Sarah Palin is a worthy addition to that list. This excerpt from her interview with Katie Couric is unbelievably WTF: Here’s a transcript of the excerpt above: Couric: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign-policy experience. What did you mean by that? Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border ...
Dear Sachin Pilot (2)
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Dear Sachin Pilot DNA has quoted you today as saying that Rahul Gandhi will be prime minister of India “sooner or later.” In the same article, you have spoken of how, under Gandhi’s leadership, the Youth Congress and the NSUI have become “professionally-run organisations where merit will count.” You have said, “There are no favourites in this system.” Are you familiar with the term ‘cognitive dissonance’? Regards Amit Varma * More open letters here. The ...
Watch Out, Mickey Mouse (2)
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Here’s the WTF news of the week: Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is “one of Satan’s soldiers” and makes everything it touches impure. But he warned that depictions of the creature in cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, and Disney’s Mickey Mouse, had taught children that it was in fact loveable. The cleric, a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in Washington DC, said that under Sharia, both household mice and their cartoon counterparts ...
Sarah Palin, Brain Surgeon (1)
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I’d blogged a few days ago about Sarah Palin’s “arrogance born from ignorance”, and Sam Harris has a piece in Newsweek now on the same theme: What is so unnerving about the candidacy of Sarah Palin is the degree to which she represents—and her supporters celebrate—the joyful marriage of confidence and ignorance. Watching her deny to Gibson that she had ever harbored the slightest doubt about her readiness to take command of the world’s only ...
The Power Of Prayer (2)
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Heh: A couple of weeks before August 28th—the night that Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President, in a Denver football stadium—Stuart Shepard, the digital-media director of the lobbying arm of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful organizations on the religious right, posed a question to his Internet viewers. “Would it be wrong,” he asked, “to pray for rain?” Shepard’s answer, apparently, was no, because he proceeded to do just that. ...
Society Decides (1)
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The WTF lines of the day come from an affidavit filed by the Home Ministry: Indian society strongly disapproves of homosexuality and disapproval is strong enough to justify it being treated as a criminal offence even where consenting adults indulge in it in private. So individual rights be damned: We must all live according to the preferences of ‘Indian society’, as determined by the men who run our country. Sometimes I wish I was an ...
It’s OK Not To Know (1)
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David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W Bush, and the man who coined the term ‘Axis of Evil’, writes: Somebody who knew President Bush well once remarked to me. “You’ll notice he never asks questions.” “Why not?” I said. “Because he doesn’t know what it’s okay for him not to know.” Frum worries that Sarah Palin is going down that same road, but really, the arrogance born from ignorance is one shared by most ...
The Divine Soniaji (2)
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The WTF quote of the day comes from Shivraj Patil: Well, I have full blessings of my leader. And the country be damned. The India Uncut Blog © 2007 Amit Varma. All rights reserved. Visit: India Uncut * The IU Blog * Rave Out * Extrowords * Workoutable * Linkastic
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Mahatma Gandhi At A Barbeque (1)
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Does this advertisement offend you? I like the ad, and the campaign that it is part of. (Check out the Jyllands-Posten ads with Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama.) But I suspect that if the Gandhi ad was seen in India, there would certainly be so-called Gandhians getting upset by such a portrayal and demanding an apology from Jyllands-Posten—thereby missing the point entirely. (Link via email from Ambuj Saxena.) The India Uncut Blog © 2007 ...
Dear Mumbai Malls (2)
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Dear Mumbai Malls I enjoy visiting you, and I support your new initiatives to tighten security in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. I don’t mind being frisked or having my bag checked: the few extra seconds we all wait individually are worth the collective safety we gain. But why do you think that terrorists enter only from front entrances? If someone drives into the parking lot and takes the lift up to the mall, ...
Mahabharata Through The Eyes Of Bhima (And Savita Bhabhi) (3)
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My friend Prem Panicker has just begun a recreation of MT Vasudevan Nair’s Randaamoozham: The Mahabharata told from the point of view of Bhima. He’s uploading it on his blog, and it promises to be a hell of a series. In this post, he explains why he’s attempting this. And here are the first two installments in the series: 1, 2. * Maybe someday I’ll attempt writing the Mahabharata from the point of view of ...
The Dinda Surprise (5)
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An article on Cricinfo about Sourav Ganguly being dropped from the Rest of India side for the Irani Trophy contains the following words: Meanwhile, Ashok Dinda, the Bengal medium-pacer, got a surprise call-up to the squad… Surprise? It ain’t no surprise to me, given the kind of horse trading that happens on zonal considerations. One east zone man, Ganguly, got dropped; compensation was due. And since Ganguly was replaced by Mohammad Kaif, I’d wager that ...
Hadron Collider Thoughts (1)
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"As you know,” my friend Rahul writes in, “the Large Hadron Collider starts its experiments on Wednesday. The most extreme view is that the world will end. I don’t believe that for a second. But you wonder: How anti-climactic would it be if the world actually ended, and we never did get around to doing all those things we said we’d do if we knew our date of extinction?” I used the limited sample size ...
Oops, Wrong Spouse (3)
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Only in India will you see a headline like this: Power cut at mass wedding causes mix-up of brides Luckily, the power came back before any of the mistakes could be consummated. I see a Priyadarshan film in this, with a mix-up at the start of the film that doesn’t get corrected, and the couples involved gradually falling in love with their accidental spouses. Immense depravity, no, this kind of Bollywood thinking? Update: Hari informs ...
“You Are Beautiful, Like A Moon” (3)
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Mohit points me to this great flowchart (via) that guides us on what to say after sex, depending on how good or bad the experience was. The headline of this post is one of your options after good sex. Eeks. I like the post-bad-sex lines much more, and could contribute a few myself: ‘Can you at least cook?’ ‘I need to blog some pictures of this. Say cheeeeeese.’ ‘Done. 100 girls in 100 days. I ...
The Bare-Breasted Virgins Of Swaziland (2)
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Dear Reuters I was thrilled today to see the headline on your site, ‘Bare-breasted virgins compete for Swaziland king’. I clicked on it furiously, hoping for a picture, maybe even a slideshow. And see what I got: A picture of bare-breasted male warriors. I am aware that your website is free. However, I want my money back. Regards Amit Varma * More open letters here. The India Uncut Blog © 2007 Amit Varma. All rights ...
