DesiPundit

Every fucken time I walk out in the maroons, or my whites with my maroon hat, I have to pick up 10 men, and carry them around for a day, and sometimes 5.

This really ruins the vertebrae.

Today was the perfect situation, we bowled Pakistan out for 230.

I should have had a small role to play, maybe a 30 odd at the end, just a nice little average pumper.

Instead I end making more than half the runs, sure I really boosted the average, but I am sick of this.

I want to play in a team.

Cricket with Balls writes on the tragedy of being Shivnarine Chanderpaul [hat tip: Ojas]. Probably we can send a few to his rescue.

PS. I’m not entirely sure this is a desi blog but what the hell!

The results for The Caferati-LiveJournal Quick Tales contest are out. The twelve winning stories are linked along with the links to the prize-winners’ LiveJournal profiles.

India’s former foreign minister spoke to Pragati on the relationship between the state, the nation, and society. You can listen to the podcast here.

Here, flowers are plastic, lips are painted, breasts are silicon filled, smiles are wicked and you know men don’t have moustache. People in a pretentious frenzy, clamoring over their cell phones sprinkling ‘Fuck’, liberally in their tele talk, run amok like rats in a trap.

Santosh wants to get out of the plastic world,but his cowardice holds him back.

If you are a fairer than most, you fit a wide variety of roles. If you are dark, a couple of obvious career paths are available to you.
You can position yourself as a “dusky sex siren”. This is the Bipasha Basu route. A newer actress barelling down this path is Jiah Khan.

Aspi does an analysis to find if color has a say in the career graph of Bollywood beauties.

In a capital city, where we always face a power and water crisis, building new luxurious villages is nothing out of norm. The thing that Government got wrong this time is that it plans to build its Commonwealth Games village on Yamuna floodplains. If Yamuna floodplains are stifled with permament structures, Delhi will be prone to floods in the monsoon. Because Yamuna will not be able to manage excess water without the spacious floodplains. National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) report clearly states this fact. Yamuna has always been flood-prone. Just this year in September, low-lying areas of Yamuna have been evacuated.

Poonam is unhappy with the construction of Commonwealth village on Yamuna floodplains.

In spite of his tryst with Asimov, he never wanted to be an astronaut. He had been hearing stories of the strenuous training involved in preparing oneself to become an astronaut. The story had a tragic end, else he could have said he knew India’s second astronaut. 

Seeing the recent Chandrayaan launch, Nikhil gets nostalgic about  ISRO.

Selva announces the results of this years Scientific Indian Story Contest. Although he hasn’t posted the winning entry yet, he shares this wonderful toolkit that every creative science writer should be aware of. Perhaps next year you can win.

They have taken an anti-Dalit line and this has led to minor skirmishes in the recent past. In pamphlets and posters within the campus, the Mukkulathoor Maanavar Peravai specially omitted the usage of “Dr.Ambedkar’s” name while referring to the college. By refusing to use the Dalit leaders name, they were taking an explicit anti-Dalit line. It is easy to argue that there’s really nothing to a name, but if there was nothing, why did the Mukkulathoor Maanavar Peravai not evoke his name?

Meena reports on the violent casteist attacks on Dalits in Dr. Ambedkar Law College (of all places) in Chennai [via].

The Dostana promos included an un-self-conscious proclamation of “We’re gay.” After the release this Friday, what did the audience think of Bollywood’s newest offering about a (supposedly) homosexual couple?

Neha thinks that the gags have at least improved from the Kal Ho Na Ho days.

Broom and MJ, on the other hand, take offense on behalf of the gay community and feel done in by Karan Johar’s latest effort.

And finally Meetu puts it all together by pointing out the blandness of the storyline and ending with,

Fluidity is in general lacking around here. The focus is on mockery here. Mockery of how the gay behave and of how they are perceived too. Mockery of how parents react when they know their child is homosexual and of how blinding love can really be. A movie on relationships and friendships, yeah right! Not this one.