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Hope 2010 is going well for you so far.
Angry young woman that I am, the mention of Slumdog Millionaire gets my goat on most days. I think it’s a decent, engaging film, and have sat through it more than once. But the moment somebody feels that they know anything about Bollywood, Indian Cinema or [...]
Posted on January 6th, 2010 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: India, Media, UK | 13 Comments »
Warning – Random political rant
Walking through Hyde Park during the pseudo-spring this country witnesses – I came across a strange prophet. It was a funny experience, as always the Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park has its share of loons and political rhetoric.
This particular chap (calling himself the Pizza Prophet) insisted it was time for [...]
Posted on September 28th, 2009 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Politics, UK | 5 Comments »
Sometimes you almost forget that people can be racist. So like an idiot I smile at everyone deeply unaware of just how much hate can simmer inside someone.
Mind you, I can deal with doubts about my intelligence just fine. I can deal with ignorance fabulously well. But today as a White man said a [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2009 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Self, UK | 17 Comments »
It sort of snowed today morning. I believe. I woke up too late to see it. Either that, or I didn’t open up the curtains early enough. However, I woke up in the most delightful of ways on Saturday morning. In Birmingham. Didn’t get too much of the city, except the quarter kilometer stretch [...]
Posted on November 23rd, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Photographs, Self, UK | 1 Comment »
In Liverpool, the city centre is so swanky, you don’t think this is the docks filled port town that you’ve read about. But on the outskirts the decay begins to show. I couldn’t spend too much time there or do my Beatles pilgrimage. I was there on work and it was a day long trip. [...]
Posted on October 17th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Funny, UK | 9 Comments »
It’s funny the kind of things that can offend people. Take for this instance this marvelous advert for Heinz Deli Mayo.
I found myself giggling with joy. It’s so rare to see an advert that shows a man doing anything other than gaze admiringly at a car, buy life insurance, spraying deodorant or drinking buckets [...]
Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Marketplace and All Things Current, UK | 15 Comments »
Sometimes you read stuff that should be screenshot-ted and preserved for posterity. This is the case of the really boring and bordering on self-pity blog called Sir John Bull. Now you would expect someone who is a member of the BNP to be a complete moron. But this chap takes it way ahead. So this [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Politics, UK, wtf | 6 Comments »
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