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I visited the mandir (also known to some as the Rediff Discussion Board) after many days today. Trust them to have the crème de la crème of intellects and you will never be disappointed.
The article talks about how Indian scientists have cloned the world’s first buffalo calf using a technique superior to the one used in cloning ‘Dolly -the sheep’.
Some comments and replies follow :
- Please clone Vajpayee he is dying : Satyan Kamath
- Dont call these people scientists,they are 9 to 5 workers and it is an insult to scientist community as a whole,the thing which rediff is talking about is many years old,several countries has done it a decade ago : Aishwarya Patil.
- Reply : aish tu gapp bas, ugachach kuthehi doka nako laus (basic knowledge of Marathi assumed).
- Reply : aish tu gapp bas, ugachach kuthehi doka nako laus (basic knowledge of Marathi assumed).
- Its not worth the experiment! Its no gr8 achievement. Cloning is a copied concept from west. Come with something new like cure for AIDS / CANCER / Vaccination for Dengue /malaria etc..
- Reply : Electricity, computers, Internet are invented by the West. Log off your computer, go to the forest, live in an ashram for the rest of your life.
- Reply : Electricity, computers, Internet are invented by the West. Log off your computer, go to the forest, live in an ashram for the rest of your life.
- WE ARE PROUD OF U MY INDIA!
- Give her tha name JATANI…
For more, please visit the original article.
While the elitist “Oscar movie” watching people have been shamelessly applauding Slumdog Millionaire, the Hindu Janajagruty Samiti (HJS) has meditated deeply on the movie to discover the following objections :
All characters in this film are Muslims except a few like, begger boy Arvind, Game show host Prem Kumar and Jamal’s girlfriend Latika.
And to add to their woes, a Muslim wins 20 million ruppes and also gets Latika !! Damn you Danny Boyle !
Hindu boy Arvind was made blind and begger. Again why not Salim, Shaik, Omar?
Well I hear from Danny Boyle that originally Jamal was supposed to be blinded but then he wasn’t able see half the answers as they happened in his life.
Now the gem :
As per the news, Muslim boys are paid to lure Hindu Girls. In this film Jamal, a Muslim boy is shown very kind to Hindu girl. This is part of international conspiracy against Hindu culture.
Even I cannot counter that.
But as a citizen of a democratic country, I will not say anything against the HJS. Instead, keeping in line with the recent forms of protest, I propose we start The Pink Dogs Campaign to send them our spare “pink dogs”.
Meet Coke’s new rival : a soft-drink made of cow urine.
The head of the Hardwar-based department, Om Prakash, said: “We refer to gau ark (cow urine) as gau jal (cow water) as it has immense potential to cure various diseases. We have developed a soft drink formula with gau jal as the base and it has been sent to a laboratory at Lucknow for testing.”
Once the tests show positive results, he added, the department will think about its packaging, preservation and marketing. The Sangh’s Cow Protection Department is planning to produce a soft drink with this magic ingredient as base, and believes it will sweep the market.
I am just curious who they hire as a model in their ads. I call for Himesh Reshammiya !
Link via Pushkar.
Amar Singh has been in the news last week for declaring that he and former BJP leader Kalyan Singh were BFFs (Best Friends Forever), adding to his already long list of friends. But that is not the reason why we are bestowing upon him this honour.
The reason being he donated over $10 million to the Clinton foundation in charity. Well not exactly charity, he also ‘made the fraandship’ with the Clintons. Of course, we should be proud of his charity if not for one minor glitch :
Accusing Amar Singh of having donated more than $10 million (approximately Rs 45.8 crore) to the William J Clinton Foundation run by the former US President, Chaturvedi has pointed out, “In his affidavit dated November 6, 2008, filed before the Election Commission, Amar Singh has disclosed net assets to the tune of Rs 37 crore, so where did he get Rs 48.5 crore from?”
Lately Amar Singh hasn’t been having a great time. Firstly, no one wished him on his ‘happy birthday’, then the Congress took his help during the trust vote and now calling him ‘mad’ and if all this wasn’t enough, the above PIL. So this is a sympathetic Dude of The Week which will hopefully cheer him up.
@Congress : You cannot call Amar Singh mad. It violates the first law of politics. Speaking the truth.
The BJP in its national meet confirmed that the Ram temple is the most important issue on its agenda.
“Yaaawn …. “.
Oh no, that literally was the reaction of the people ..
And this is just the young blood in the Indian political scenario !
Images Courtesy : IBNLive.
What would you do if you conducted a raid on a party based on a false tip off of a rave party ? While you scratch your brains, this is what the police did showing immaculate presence of mind :
Cops entered Zero Degrees pub at Nirmal Lifestyle mall in Mulund (W) around 5.45 pm, cordoned it off, stopped the music and forced the young people to take the breathalyser test. At the end of it, however, only 11 of the 100 youths were found to be drinking.
Cops then slapped the charge — of drinking without permits — on all 11. Officials admitted they were “forced to press some charge” as they had been “fooled”. They were tipped off that youngsters were taking drugs in the party and “had to press some charge” so that the raid was not “entirely fruitless”.
I hope no one alleges the charge of dereliction of duty on the cops henceforth.
And yes, evidently you need a permit to drink in India.
While bloggers, media, all sane human beings and Renuka Choudhary have been blasting the Sri Rama Sena (translated as “A band of monkeys” with some inputs from history), only Rediff has shown the courage to delve deeper into the issue. What they have come up with is an article called : Did India export The Kiss to the West?
Behaviour analysts are also divided on where the habit originated. Some believe that kissing, in fact, is a Vedic habit. Vaughn Bryant, an anthropologist from Texas quoted in the International Herald Tribune, believes that the first recorded kiss, around 1500 BC, is in scriptures which mention people sniffing with their mouths; later Vedic texts describe lovers “setting mouth to mouth”.
Far from being a European import, he says, kissing went west from India, after Alexander’s conquest of Punjab in 326 BC. If such is the case then the Romans and Latins, whose kisses range from the overtly sexual to the deeply spiritual, are truly the kissing cousins of the Aryans.
So there you go SRS. It is not the West that is corrupting us, it is the other way round. So you need to be moral policing the West !
On a more serious note, a campaign that has been doing the rounds lately : The Pink Chaddi Campaign, a Consortium of Pub Going, Loose and Forward Women. If you have a spare Pink Chaddi to send to the SRS, please also join their Facebook thing. I am eager to join not just to support their cause, but to see if there are any guys who have a Pink Chaddi. Also, from their campaign snap, I think the campaigners might be confusing between the RSS and SRS as they are different. One goes around beating helpless women in pubs, the other is denied entry to pubs owing to their costume.
Link via Salil B.
Strange are the ways Google functions (or the people who use Google since it learns by itself). I was seeing a strange surge in traffic to a certain Mallika Sherawat snap that was referenced in this post. After a few days of not having a clue, I discovered that my blog shows up among the first few entries in Google image search for the search string “Mallika Sherawat” (and related typos). You can see it here.
As a good samaritan, I have graciously posted a few additional snaps for people travelling thus far to my blog just for a single snap.
While my blog is not entirely pleased with this unexpected attention for the wrong reasons, it is simultaneously ecstatic for being the first search result for a string “Mahendra Watsa“. Yes, even higher than his column ! You can see it here.
This blog is humbled.
Update : As Rupesh rightly points out, you might not be a part of this historic event if you are not in the US due to Google’s geography based search results. Looking at the brighter side, I can help out the census in 2011 by providing the number of single frustrated male Indians in the US.
