Fashion Designer Satya Paul has done it again. This time for designing a Google inspired saree called Ooogle / Oogle. Satya Paul has been known to be inspired by nature, people, and beautiful things around him.
Indian Actress Aditi Govitrikar, Mrs. World of 2001, modeled for (g)oogle saree in India Fashion Week 2007 under Pop Art [...]
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Posted in Activities, Cultural, From Headlines, News and Views, Observation, Society, Stories and Experiences, tagged Art, Artes Mundi Prize 2008, Community Installations, Mass Marriage, Murals, News, NS Harsha, Paintings on 28 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
NS Harsha is a gifted story teller who captures everyday life from India as seen through the lens of news and world events on his canvas through the medium of paints and color.
Miniature art form is not unknown in India. In fact, it has been used through the ages to depict life from courts of [...]
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Posted in Activities, Books and Literature, Cultural, General, News and Views, Observation, Writing, tagged Arundhati Roy, Bandit Queen, Book Relase, Books, God of Small Things, India, Massey Sahib, News, Politics, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations wit, The Shape of the Beast on 28 April 2008 | 6 Comments »
Eleven years after she won the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things, 14 conversations (2001-2008 ) with Roy on her social and political activism appear in a new book The Shape of the Beast.
Even before The God of Small Things hit the world of fame, this female Rushdie of India attracted lot [...]
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Posted in Activities, Cultural, Indian History, Kolkata, News and Views, Observation, tagged Bengali Art, Indian Painters, Kolkata, Oil Painting, Portrait of President of India, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Water Color, Young Painter of Bengal on 7 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
“In the silence of the night when I take a break from my work, and sit alone in the balcony, I see a young boy with a bag on his shoulder and a drawing board in his hand. Black clouds cover the sky while people take shelter from the rain, but the boy sits on [...]
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Posted in Activities, From the Past, General, Observation, Photography, Travel, tagged Brahma, China, Himalayas, India, Kailash Mansarovar, Lingam, Mansarovar, Ravana, Shiva, Tibet, Travel, Trek, Vishnu on 4 April 2008 | 7 Comments »
To the Hindus, the Himalayas are central to their cosmology. The peaks are the petals of the Golden Lotus which lord Vishnu created as a first step in the formation of the universe. On one of these peaks - Mount Kailash, sits Shiva in a state of perpetual meditation, generating the spiritual force that [...]
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Posted in In My Opinion, Information, News and Views, Observation, tagged India, News, Male Child, Daughters, Feticide, Ifanticide, Son Preference, Sex Ratio, Abortions, Save Girl Child on 3 April 2008 | 7 Comments »
Son preference in India is a well documented fact and its implications on skewed sex ratios, female feticide and high child morality rates is no news either. For over a century India has shown marked gap in the number is boys vs girls born each year. With technological advancement this gap is only increasing.
Indians [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Education, Information, Interesting, News and Views, Observation, Tech News, tagged Evaluseserve, Indian Economy, News, NRIs, Reverse Brain Drain, Technology, US Economy on 31 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
India has initiated reverse brain drain. Realizing how many scientists, doctors, engineers and other professionals they loose every year, Indian government is taking steps to lure them back to the country.
The scheme for NRIs, though still in infancy, has already netted at least 40 PHDs and MTechs working in academics or industry in countries like [...]
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Posted in Announcements, Chennai, Delhi, From Headlines, General, In My Opinion, Interesting, Kolkata, Mumbai, News and Views, Observation, tagged 2008, carbon emission, Earth Hour, global warming, India, March 29, San Francisco, Sydney on 28 March 2008 | 12 Comments »
India has decide to stay illuminated when the world will switch off for Earth Hour between 8 and 9 pm on March 29. As of today no Indian city has officially joined the campaign to black out to show that India too is in the crusade to reduce global warming.
So far, 35 nations, 370 cities, [...]
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The recent turbulence in Tibet is turning to be a trouble for India. Though no Indian life or interest is under any threat, India is finding it difficult to respond. It is the Indian response, or lack there of, that is the most troubling. If it was an isolated case of confusion for India, it [...]
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Over the years, Indian men got a bad name all over the world. Most women complain about immaturity, insensitivity, and insufficient evolution of Indian men. The demand for dowry did not help the image at all. The news of burning bride turned most women against them. But ladies no one ever tells you about the [...]
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Posted in News and Views, Observation, tagged Indian News, News, Technology, Media, Internet, People, Life, Shivani, Sarabjit, Sensex, Suicide on Webcam on 17 March 2008 | No Comments »
The day is long gone, when I had to wait until mid-morning for my father to let go of the only newspaper we used to get. He would come from the market and sit on the veranda with his tea and the paper before going to office. Some days he was late from the market [...]
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For those who are not yet sure, here are ten more questions for you to find your Indian identity.
If your gold tooth filling is your only dental expense, you are still an Indian.
If you put your ears on your digital wrist watch to make sure [...]
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If you are one of those who have problem spotting an engineer, your problem may be finally over. If you are one of those who have hard time separating engineers from human, please read on. There is good news: with little information it is easy to spot an engineer.
Evolutionary Background: First of all, engineers belong [...]
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Are you an Indian living in America? Or are you a person of Indian origin? Do you waste a lot of time trying to shade your Indian identity? Or you do everything to cling to it? If you are either of those, we can help. We have developed Simple Home Identity Test for you. Whether [...]
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Posted in Cultural, General, Information, News and Views, Observation, Stories and Experiences, tagged Babies Outsourced, Commercial, Culture, Family, Health, India, Infertility, Made In India, Medical Tourism, News, Observations, Outsourcing, Pregnancy, Society, Surrogacy, Surrogate, Surrogate Mother, Technology, Trans-ethnic on 12 March 2008 | 9 Comments »
In India, there is a new IT industry: the new Infant Trading. After the adults, it is now the babies turn to be outsourced. Reproductive Outsourcing is catching on. The industry is valued at more than $450 millions, and the number of cases of surrogacy has doubled over the past three years. [...]
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The recent discussion that followed the post on IIT encouraged me to put down my thoughts on Indian education system, not just IIT.
Growing up we did not have the luxury of attending schools that were considered prestigious, nor did we have the pressure to perform in entrance exam. My mother one day dressed me up [...]
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There are two distinct tribes in India: the one that went to IIT, and the one that did not. If you are wondering, how to tell them apart, I have good news: you do not have to. They would tell you before you can finish your hello. At times all you need is a glance [...]
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