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Dating A Banker? Anonymous?

This is just fantastic. Dabagirls.com or Dating A Banker Anonymous Girls. More at the NY Times. Given the recession, gloomy financial forecasts, tight purse strings, disappearing purses, pink slips, dirty linen and all of that – this is pop-ethnography at its best.
Are you or someone you love dating a banker? If so, we are [...]

Gay Desi

Drumroll.
Introducing Gaysifamily.com. Where Gaysi = Gay Desi. Broom is the editor for the blog, and it’s already fantastic!

B for Budapest!

Budapest is beautiful. The GV Summit is on in the city, and as always there’s a huge crowd of bloggers, cyber activists and the lot from all over the world. It’s an amazing experience, to walk around the room, trying to master the pronunciation of so many names, putting faces to the urls. The summit [...]

Meeting Mad Momma

Mad Momma does eat dinner on a table with napkins. She also resembles this vision of Mother India, two kids – one crawling over her knee, and the other never leaving her neck. But here’s the surprise. Both MumbaiGirl and I looked shocked at how small the Bean was. A few days back, in a [...]

The all new and shiny Global Voices

I said GlobalVoices had something up its sleeves. And it’s out for the world to see. Announcing all new, shiny, wonderful, (so much more readable) GV.

An update on GV

Am really happy with the way the South Asia pages for Global Voices are shaping up. In recent times, we’ve had Mathy cover the Tamil Blogosphere, Ujjwal Acharya on Nepal’s blogs, Amit Gupta on the Hindi Blogosphere.
And the latest addition – Gaurav Mishra (who is insanely fond of linking) who will subject Lit Blogs [...]

Shoes for Mad Momma’s Baby Shower

The wonderful Mad Momma is being thrown an online baby shower. We could give her the baby-themed story, but this wonderful pair of kimono shoes (?) found on flickr are far more appropriate.
May the baby be as bright and cheery as you Mad Momma. Hope the winsome two and OA provide fodder for great [...]