Monthly Archive for July, 2005

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Aguilera Does Guantanamo

Published on July 25, 2005 in Politics and Religion. 24 Comments

Our friendly neighborhood terrorists have gone Gandhian in Guantanamo. Protesting against their ‘indefinite detention and inhuman conditions”, they have started refusing to eat food and water. Of course, they won’t be dying anytime soon.

According to Al Jazeera,

US military officials said detainees who refuse food are given medical treatment including intravenous hydration, water, the sports energy drink Gatorade, a nutritional supplement called Ensure and are admitted to hospital if needed.

As Ashok Kumar would say, while watering his plants “Ensure (Insure) and be secure.”

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Saving Shane’s Marriage

Published on July 24, 2005 in Crime and Society. 6 Comments


So you are having marital problems. Wife is threatening to leave you pissed off at your meandering ways.

Want to make a gesture to show that all your philandering days are over ?

Varrry simple. Ask your girl friend do a threesome (educated people call it a menag e trois) with you and your wife. If that romantic gesture does not melt your wife’s heart, then nothing will.

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Dulhe Raja

Published on July 23, 2005 in Crime. 9 Comments


Poor Junaid Miandad.

All his life he has had to endure Javed Miandad, who by all accounts is not the easiest person to get along with.

And now to make things even worse, he has decided to marry the world’s most dangerous man’s daughter.

First of all, he just painted a target symbol on his forehead. Chota Rajan’s sharpshooters must be licking their lips in the anticipation for a “hit” that hits home.

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Cold Relatives

Published on July 19, 2005 in India and Politics. 10 Comments

Accept it. All of us have them. Relatives you do not feel close to but yet have to keep up pretenses with. Meet them by chance in a family gathering and facile smiles and insincere greetings are exchanged—-both parties know how hollow the exchange is and yet both play along for the sake of congeniality.

I find Indo-US relations to be likewise. Dr Singh’s visit to US has been hailed as historic by the Indian press and almost totally ignored (with the exception of passing references in Washington Post and New York Times) by the American mainstream media (which falls over itself to cover a state visit by the Premier of China, any European head-of-state or by the Israeli Prime Minister). Unfortunately, like a meeting of two relatives who have had a stormy history, an Indo-US summit inevitably has a lot of fake bonhomie and a faux sense of significance which is pretty self-evident to everyone including the players in the charade.

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Hottie Hottie Bong Bong

Published on July 18, 2005 in Calcutta, Comedy, Pop Culture and Society. 130 Comments

While doing some blogsurfing, I came across this somewhat catty vitriol on someone’s page ( a lady’s)

Now the one who really stood out was this woman called Vijaya Balan (think that was her name). Apparently, she’s Mallu, but she really looked like a quintessentially Bengali woman. Wore her sexuality on her sleeve. You know what Bengali women, especially from Calcutta, are like? Overtly sexual — it’s not like they dress like Mallika Sherawat or something. On the contrary, they’ll wear these rather ethnic saris and big bindis but then then they’ll arch their bodies in this overly seductive manner and Continue reading ‘Hottie Hottie Bong Bong’