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Category: Us people

  • International talk like a pirate day

    Ahoy matey and proud beauty come across a galley the day is international talk like a pirate day. Swill a pint or two of grog and stuff the salmagundi in the name of John Baur and Mark summen, who gifed the 19th day of September in 1995. Be that a no matey? Ye get to…

  • Uncle Sam

    I always found the reference to United States as Uncle sam very handy. Particularly when I have to make my digs at the Bay area Behanji’s or New pastures of the SK-Dabha (the slang my father and his friends had for south Canara Brahmins hostel at Chennai). This day in 1813 this became an accepted…

  • Team Anna Hazare !?

    Everyone is talking about team Anna, The press is making it out as an Anna vs. government. It is not Anna vs. government; it is people vs. their decisions. Yes, the government consists of the people we choose as our representatives. Remember the silent Manmohan singh has been elected by some constituency, so has the…

  • Independence day?

  • Quit India

    14th August the day of Pakistan independence and the day before the Indian independence. August also commemorates the August Kranti or the quit India movement. Every Indian and his family worth a salt was out protesting. Processions of people could be seen. Forcing the British to quit the country. Looks like we have not really…

  • life in a small town

    Life in a small town. In an urban set up we are so busy running from point A to point B we forget to enjoy the journey. Like ants we are busy rushing around at such terrible speed that we don’t pay attention to leaves on the shrubs and clouds in the sky. We prefer…