Journey Through Indian Ads: Then and Now
Posted in Humor, tagged Advertisements, Entertainment, India, Indian Ads, Television, Then and Now on 27 June 2008 | 5 Comments »
Posted in Humor, tagged Advertisements, Entertainment, India, Indian Ads, Television, Then and Now on 27 June 2008 | 5 Comments »
Posted in Humor, tagged Amitab Bachchan, Dishoom 2008, Humor, India, News, Prime Minister of United States, US ELECTIONS 2008, USA on 30 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted in Humor, tagged Humor, India, Internet, Jagdish Bose, Technology, Wireless on 24 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
112,000 broadband centres would be set up in rural areas across the country, within a year. The government Saturday announced a $2-billion public-private partnership to provide broadband and internet connectivity in country’s rural areas. Union Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, speaking at Global Telecom Summit here, said that $1.5 [...]
Posted in BubbleBabble, Humor, tagged BubbleBabble, Favorite Book, Unbearable Lightness on 26 April 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in BubbleBabble, Humor, tagged BubbleBabble, Maya on 21 April 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in Cultural, From Headlines, Humor, News and Views, tagged American Gandhi, Bernie Meyer, Dermot Butterly, Irish Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Peace Walk, Soro Orissa, White House on 15 April 2008 | No Comments »
Mahatma Gandhi never got an opportunity to visit USA and carry out a Peace Walk on its streets. But now he will.
Mahatma Gandhi has influenced leaders and people of America as much he did every where else. He kept special contact with people in USA through his letters to them. Gandhi was aware of his [...]
Posted in BubbleBabble, Humor, tagged BubbleBabble, Long Lines on 8 April 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in BubbleBabble, Humor, tagged BubbleBabble, Scary on 5 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted in BubbleBabble, Humor, tagged BubbleBabble, Two-Faced Baby on 4 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted in Cultural, Entertainment, General, Metro News, News and Views, Observation, tagged A Ramadoss, Alcohol Consumption, Dry State, India, Law of Prohibition, Mahatma Gandhi, Pale Ale, Rt. Hon. Mike Rann, Sommelier, Tharra, Toddy, Whiskey on 2 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
Some Facts:
India is the only country in the world where age bar for alcohol consumption is 25 years.
It is illegal to directly or indirectly advertise alcoholic beverages in India.
Hinduism declares alcohol consumption as one of the five heinous crimes and is comparable to murder and adultery. A drunkard is a dead body, say the scriptures.
Broadcasting [...]
Posted in BubbleBabble, Humor, tagged April Fool's Day, BubbleBabble on 1 April 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in Humor, Observation, tagged An Indian Phrasebook, India, Indian Phrases, Read Between Lines, What Indians Mean, What Indians Say on 1 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
For the travelers to the mysterious land of Indian Culture we know how confusing it can be at times. It is an ancient culture rich with confusions and contradictions that we Indians learned to live with - do we have a choice. What is merely a daily matter to us, my foreign wonderer, for you [...]
Posted in From Headlines, Information, Interesting, Movies, Sports, TV, tagged Animation, Comic, Davis Cup, Jai Natarajan, Leander Paes, Leander Sport Private Limited, News, Sports, Superhero, Tennis, The Magic Racquet on 31 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Leander Paes, who has saved India from several Davis Cup disasters and a medal hope at the Beijing Olympic Games in August, is going to play a miracle man who helps school kids in cartoon television series called The Magic Racquet.
Not much has been disclosed about the story line. Paes will play roughly his [...]
Posted in BubbleBabble, Humor, tagged Earth Hour, global warming on 28 March 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Dance and Drama, Entertainment, General, Interesting, Kolkata, Metro News, Movie Reviews, Movies, News and Views, tagged Lovesongs -Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Jaya Bachchan, Director Jayabrato Chatterjee, Usha Uthup, Mir Taqi Mir, Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali, Cinema, Om Puri, Mallika, Shahana Chatterjee, Dom Mores, Last Train to Innocence, MAMI International Film Festival on 27 March 2008 | No Comments »
Kolkata is celebrating Jaya Bachchan’s latest in Bengali cinema Lovesongs -Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. However Bengali has been used sparsely in [...]
Posted in Announcements, Cultural, Entertainment, From Headlines, Interesting, News and Views, tagged Altagamma, Brad Pitt, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, CII, Diesel, DKNY, George Clooney, Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Tom Cruise on 27 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Do not be surprised if you see Hollywood stars like Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Tom Cruise wearing a Sherwani. Italian fashion giant, Giorgio Armani, has included sherwani in its collection.
India is 3rd most brand conscious country in the world with Greece leading the way followed by Hong Kong.
Posted in Activities, Cultural, Delhi, Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Interesting, News and Views, Sports, tagged Aamir Khan, Beijing Olympics, Coca Cola, Coca Cola Environment Champions, India, Kiran Bedi, Olympic, Torchbearer, Water Conservation on 25 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Aamir Khan, accompanied by five other torchbearers Dr. Narayan G Hegde- President, BAIF Development Research Foundation, Dr. Kiran Bedi - noted officer in the Indian Police Service (IPS) and founder Navjyoti foundation, Ravi Singh- Secretary General & CEO, World Wildlife Fund India and Atul Singh, President & CEO, Coca-Cola India. Y. Subhash Chandra Reddy- [...]
Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Interesting, Movies, News and Views, tagged News, Famous Five, Enid Blyton, Jyoti, Jo, Tomboy Georgina, Disney, Steve Aranguren, Disney Channel, Cartoon on 24 March 2008 | No Comments »
Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five have undergone a radical 21st-century makeover for a new Disney cartoon series Famous Five: On The Case. The members of the new Famous Five are children of the original five created in 1942 - team leader Julian, Dick, George, Anne and the dog Timmy. They are Jo, Max, Allie and [...]
Posted in Cultural, Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Movies, News and Views, tagged Academy Award, Anthony Minghella, Max Minghella, New York I Love You, News, Paani, Shekhar Kapoor on 24 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Shekhar Kappor who was in India for preproduction of his new film Paani, had to fly back to USA unexpectedly. He has been asked to direct the movie New York, I Love You that the acclaimed Academy Award winning Director, playwright and screenwriter, Anthony Minghella of The English Patient and Cold Mountain fame, was [...]
Posted in BubbleBabble, Humor, tagged Festival Of Color, Holi, Celebration of Colors on 21 March 2008 | 1 Comment »