Travel stories and Frequently groaning, occasionally celebrating Indian TV and culture
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- Stereotypes Is this sign racist or just a harmless stereotype?
- A bit of culture A bharathnatyam arangetram performance and a marital feud to boot
- Rules for the head Wear A Helmet education signs
- Mungeli My inspiring experience at Christian Hospital Mungeli, Chattisgarh and how you can help
- Funny subtitles Try to guess what this subtitle was actually trying to say
- Parcel Karo Vizag’s unique Parcel restaurants, the Rajadhani, haven for spice junkies
- Survey on Mahabharata, Religion and India Please take this short survey of mine, knowledge on these subjects is not required
- Vellore coir rope A video documenting how hand spun coir rope is made in my hometown of Vellore
- Cattle Ride This picture of transporting buffalo in trucks is all too common on our highways
- Long Bazaar Junk Market In our hometown of Vellore, we found this rusty Sunday Market
- The Beach Leg Relaxing on Langkawi’s beaches, a traveller’s guide
- Penang’s Chinese Temples The stunning temples of Penang
- Penang Sight Seeing Walking through ancient George Town we see life as it is
- KL in a day Eating, shopping and meeting the people of KL all in a day
- NDTV Goof up Wrong images of people and fumbling interviews – gaffs galore for NDTV’s shoddy journalism
- What Indians are good at Riots strike vizag passport office again – proof of our hairbrained inefficient systems
- Hartenstein and the Laconia Incident When U156 sank the Laconia, the humanitarian effort was foiled by the outrageous US bombing
- I ate the world Melbourne and I love food – my entry for the Indiblogger Tourism Victoria blog contest
- Bissamcuttack Our inspiring experience at the Kachapaju tribal school and Christian Mission Hospital, Bissamcuttack, Orissa
- Olympic dreams, epic tales The personal falls and triumphs of athletes in 2012 resemble some great stories from the Mahabharata
- London’s Olympic In-joke My not so kind review of London’s Olympic opening ceremony
- Who can you trust? Error in BBC reporting of type of jet bombing cities in Syria on July 25th, 2012
- Love bites, my a$$ A review of late night cooking show Love Bites with Joey on NDTV Good Times
- Strike a Pose The best looking couple for Vizag’s Blender’s Pride fashion show – phonies
- Smart Kitchen, the Indian Way The prestige anything for anything exchange offer fits in with our Indian ethic of reuse till death
- The Right to Information Our wonderful experience with democracy and the RTI Act
- Junior Masterchef Australia Little children can cook, astounding culinary feats performed by 8 to 12 yr olds, must watch
- Where you gonna run to? The stupid reaction of the people of Vizag during the Tsunami warning of April 11th 2012.
- The Hindu Goof Up An advert for a foreign car under an article about the killer speed machines that are foreign cars
- To Pee in Peace My entry for the StayFree Time to Change blogging contest on wanting to change the lack of public toilets for women
- Watching Airports My recent short trips through many airports fuelled my Watching of people on their travels
- Cooking for competition I entered the Hindu cooking contest and this is how it went down
- Falooda Vizag street food just got interesting with refreshing Falooda stall
- Chilka A short trip to Chilka lake to eat giant crabs and images from rural Orissa
- Vishakapatnam Railway Station Vizag station’s absolute filth turns the clock back on India’s progress
- How to steal a mountain A critical review of the Vedanta mining company’s advert, Creating Happiness
- Valentines Shmalentines The Grinch of Valentines gets sucked in
- Debuglic Day January 26th, 2012 spent at the Eastern Naval Command Republic Day parade and the patriotism that swept over me
- Nano tows Gypsy King It’s in the title, the little Nano achieved great feats when the Gypsy said, “I got no more.”
- The Kutch Meetha Hai Wedding Invitation Card An innovative wedding card based on a Cardbury wrapper
- Indian Contradictions An incident triggers the question of how to deal with the inherent contradictions in Indian society
- Submarine movie reviews A review of all 8 submarine movies made post 1950
- The Angel in the Sky The adverts of Singapore Airlines, Qatar Airways and Cathay Pacific are all very similar and all proclaim to have angels for airhostess, my expert analysis
- Death of a Dictator With the death of Mohammad Gaddafi, a look back on the undignified deaths of the world’s most infamous dictators
- A few of my favourite shows My TOP TEN list of all time favourite comedy TV shows
- Submarine Movie Marathon The one week challenge to watch and review all submarine movies made post 1950
- Sailing My first experience in a sail boat and appreciating the wonderful Naval Sea Cadets
- Submarine Versus the Tsunami A guest article by my husband, Cdr A.Korula, on his experience on board INS Vela, a Foxtrot submarine underwater at the time of the 2006 Tsunami.
- Be Small, Think Big: Shops signs in Tamil Nadu that proclaim much more than what the shop offers.
- Body Art My experiments with marking the body
- O.M.D Oh My, Delhi My week in the nation’s capital, ten years on since my last visit
- Nothing is what it seems Essential code words to get by in a strange world
- Top Chef – Indians Missing Despite our treasure box of spices and vast regional cuisines, why do Indians fail to feature on Western cooking shows?
- What’s up with Indian Men? A scathing review of the TV show on Fox History and Traveller Channel
- Bringing Desi Back A look at Indian advertising celebrating being ‘desi’
- The Legendary Lungi A detailed and humorous study of Kerala’s state attire, the lungi
