Category Archives: India

Commonwealth’s resounding success

I’ve been losing touch on news lately but one thing I did manage to follow and that was CWG. I am feeling f****** proud (I do always anyways) of India because it wasn’t easy and especially whole world was kind of waiting for one failure to pounce upon it. I know there are problems but [...]

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The chronicles from India

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Namaste (and this is the authentic one, not some oriental person trying some voodoo in Lost!) from India. Every time I come to India, people scare me or warn me about vaccinations, water etc etc. I am yet to fall sick after eating roadside pani pooris. My immune system very sweetly supports every patriotic beat [...]

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Ghalib’s heritage endangered

Unfortunate is the land that can’t uphold it’s own legacy. To have been blessed with the affections of the peerless Mirza Ghalib is sufficient alone to make Delhi special but Delhi has decided to hand the honor over to the oblivion. In recent news article from TOI, the Delhi govt. or the archaeological department had [...]

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a price to pay for perfection

We are in middle of the Olympics and India has claimed its first and only individual Gold in the history of games. Once in four years, Indians think or try to think about sports. And there are questions that you will find them raising vehemently in circle of friends or over a cup of coffee. [...]

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Indian Artwork

I’ve been recently looking into some of the art works by Indian artists and this one captured my attention. It is an acrylic on canvas work by Parag Adhikari, who has done some other neat stuff using watercolor too. I just love the reds in this painting, it has a definite sense of hinduism associated [...]

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