Anousheh Ansari calls up Larry Page

Internet access in space?

And other interesting bits of conversation !

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Missing the Lucknow Durga Pujo

As GreatBong captures the emotion so well…I am going to leave the narration to him!

I’ll be missing the Indira Nagar market Pujo, the HAL Colony Pujo, the Ramakrishna Math pujo, the Bengali Club pujo, the  Boys Anglo School pujo and the La Touche Road pujo !

More Brit than the British

Agatha Christie fans to celebrate her 126th birthday in Delhi

and where Wodehouse has a club!

Middle class India’s accent may be American, but reading habits remain very British !

Not ready?

India not ready for pornographic films : Sharmila Tagore says.

Hmm. Wonder when will we know that we are ready?

Maybe when black buck poaching stops? Will that show that excess testerone in middle aged men has gone away?

Mice don’t like cheese?

A research in the UK has said that mice don’t like cheese !

And all these years I believed that to be the case, having grown up on watching Tom & Jerry !

It’s such a downer when some aphorisms are broken !

Next thing you know they’ll tell us that kids don’t really get delivered by storks or something ! And that there is no Santa Claus! Or they’ll find out that the earth is not really -but flat. Hey wait, someone already said that !