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From tomorrow, Bengaluru shall sit squat in Karnataka. Technically, this is the last day the city shall be Bangalore. Kamla writes on the issue of name change
I don’t know how many of you are able to handle the name change. I sure am having a hard time with the change.
I sound like a really old [...]
Posted on October 31st, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Cities, Culture, History and Monuments, India, Marketplace and All Things Current | 26 Comments »
I am not busy or overwhelmed by work. If anything, I am overwhelmed at how skilled I am at wasting time on irrelevant things. As for temporary distractions, I am amazed by this one,
A new fast food is making its debut at U.S. fairs this fall — fried Coke.
Abel Gonzales, 36, a computer analyst from [...]
Posted on October 30th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Food and Gastronomy, Random Links | 6 Comments »
Really, why would anyone say such a thing?
Sheik Hilali, Australia’s Mufti since 1989, was quoted as saying: “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the back yard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it… whose fault [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Culture, Gender, Random Links | 8 Comments »
BBC NEWS | Sex worker bank plans expansion
“The Usha Multipurpose Co-operative Society – usually referred to simply as Usha – was established by Rekha Chatterjee 12 years ago, specifically for sex workers who were fed up with existing banks making it difficult for them to open an account.”
(tags: sexworkers india finance gender)
Posted on October 27th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Random Links | 1 Comment »
SB kindly brought flowers yesterday. I think she was looking for pazham1, but since the Underground in London doesn’t have fruit sellers, she settled for flowers. The London Underground doesn’t have florists either. While sprinkling water on them today, camera was whipped out. The utter green ruins my eye. The sun is too moody [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Photographs | 4 Comments »
You know how sometimes you meet people after about 28 months or so, and conversation picks up from some random thread. You immediately talk of all the gross things and trade story for story. I met SB today for coffee/ aloo parantha. She was a batchmate at TISS and has a wicked sense of humour. [...]
Posted on October 26th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Cities, Culture, Family and Friends, Food and Gastronomy, London | 7 Comments »
I have no idea why, but this creeps me out.
Eyelash transplant surgery wants to become the new must-have procedure for women — and the occasional man — convinced that beauty is not so much in the eye of the beholder as in front of the eye itself.
Using procedures pioneered by the hair loss industry [...]
Posted on October 26th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Culture, Random Links | 5 Comments »
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