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Last visited 09-04-2009
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  • Friday, September 04, 2009
    Posted at 4:17:00 PM
    The television show ' Paul Merton in India ' is quite old, but being a sporadic television viewer at best; I saw it just yesterday on Fox History channel. That days episode was on Delhi, so I suppressed my natural urge to switch channels and decided to watch instead. The first shot was of Paul Merton travelling through the narrow, crowded streets of Old Delhi on a cycle rickshaw, explaining that he had landed two hours ago and that it had been a long ride to the city - obviously insinuating that the cycle rickshaw had been his ONLY mode.
  • Monday, August 17, 2009
    Posted at 5:08:00 PM
    When Sri Lanka's civil was declared over in June, there was a lot of expectation that everything would get better – that the insanely high cost of living would come down, tourists would start coming back, investors would look at the country as a viable option and that checkpoints would be taken off the roads. The Sri Lanka Tourism Board just announced that tourist arrivals have increased 28% year on year. In keeping with the spirit of a "new" Sri Lanka, the board launched a new logo and the tagline “small miracle” in June, along with.
  • Sunday, July 19, 2009
    Posted at 2:54:00 PM
    (A traveler’s tale and a plea for helpfulness at airports) I found myself in a rather unusual predicament on my return to India from a trip to Malaysia a few days ago. I realized I was roughly 30 rupees short of money for a prepaid taxi. I tried both the ATM Machines at the airport and for some reason, both machines were unable to process my request for cash. I walked back to the prepaid taxi booth and asked the man in charge if I could pay the 30 Rupees when I reached my house. He said no. “It’s only thirty rupees” I pleaded. “madam, if I were.
  • Wednesday, June 10, 2009
    Posted at 11:19:00 AM
    Traveling through cyberspace is about to happen at warp speed, if one is to believe Mozilla's claims about the soon-to-be-launched Firefox 3.5 . Touted as the fasted browser ever (or so far at least given the speed at which browsers seem to be one-upping each other these days), Firefox 3.5 is reportedly twice as fast as Firefox 3 and ten times as fast as Firefox 2. And for those of you worried about how fast it will remain once you load all your plug-ins, the good news is that it requires no additional plug-ins to view flash or video. The National.
  • Saturday, June 06, 2009
    Posted at 12:23:00 PM
    What are the chances of a frumpy, middle aged woman walking into a recording studio, wooing the Tommy Mottola type producers with her voice and making it big? In 2009 baby, non - existent. The newest entrants to the commercial music scene are generally young, hep, physically beautiful, dance well, sing tolerably and can pout with the best of them in the poster photo shoots. So that leaves no place for the frumpy - even if they do sing very very well. In fact there has been much lamenting that recording studios are no longer places that starry eyed.
  • Friday, May 29, 2009
    Posted at 3:45:00 PM
    Disclaimer: the author knows that she is susceptible to being accused of doing too many Sri Lanka posts. There has been a strong international outcry against the Sri Lankan government for its handling of the humanitarian crisis in the Vanni . The UNHCR recently adopted a draft resolution calling for an investigation into possible war crimes and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently warned the Sri Lankan government that it would have to "understand the consequences of its actions". The US and UK raised some subtle objections to a IMF.
  • Monday, May 18, 2009
    Posted at 5:15:00 PM
    Prabhakaran is dead, the LTTE are finished and the war is over. A war that has been such a big part of my life, that its difficult for me to envision Colombo without its hundreds of checkpoints, the necessity of carrying identification papers at all times and the half expectation that either me or someone I know will get blown up in some random bomb explosion. So how do I feel now that its over? If it means that all my family and friends can now live safely and happily, that the high cost of living blamed all these years on the war will go down.
  • Thursday, April 30, 2009
    Posted at 6:47:00 PM
    Zoozoos these days it seems are everywhere. The antics of these egg headed strange white humanoids have been entertaining millions of IPL viewers during commercial breaks for some weeks now. And now, these new Vodafone ambassadors have their own facebook fanpage, which is growing (even by facebook standards) at amazing speed. At around 11 am, the page had roughly over 26,000 fans. Barely five hours later, that number was over 30,000. The page creators are clearly facebook savvy. They have uploaded albums, shared links and even created innovative.
  • Sunday, April 26, 2009
    Posted at 12:52:00 PM
    Pubs in Delhi are good places to be these days. Now that the IPL has been moved to South Africa (as a friend so aptly put it) "Only a really suicidal pub won't have some IPL deal going on". So what this means apart from the fact that you can watch the matches on big screen, is that you get some great offers on food and beer (yay!) and free carnival atmosphere. So pick a team to support (if you want to play it safe go with the Delhi Daredevils), head down to a pub, avail yourself of the 'IPL' deals and hoot, cheer, heckle and.
  • Wednesday, April 22, 2009
    Posted at 3:56:00 PM
    Every city has multiple faces. The slums and the residential areas, the ghettos and the huge apartment complexes, the lower middle class housing and the glitzy commercial areas. We all know these faces exist, yet only truly know one face. We live, school, work and socialize within the contours of that one face and know little else about the other faces. They exist like parallel universes to our own. That was how it was for me too. Until I moved to Delhi. I had never been to Delhi before, and all I had heard was that the smartest thing I could do.
  • Thursday, March 12, 2009
    Posted at 4:45:00 PM
    And just when you thought it couldn't get any smaller... the previously postage stamp sized ipod shuffle now looks like this: Half the size of its predecessor, it also has double the storage capacity (4GB) and it TALKS to you! Since they couldn't possibly fit a display screen on to such a tiny machine, Apple has introduced an innovative new software they call "Voice Over" which at the click of a button, tells you what song you're listening to. It also allows you to create and scroll through playlists - another feature that.
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