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This one's not just for Punjabis but for all those who have faced Punglish, (Punju English). Sorry, you probably either need to be from North India or have lived/visited that region of India a number of times to get Punglish (i.e. Punjabi English) I like 'A is for Aiscreame' but read on....
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Today India celebrates its 60th independence from the British Raj - Happy Birthday! So 5 more years to retirement? . Over the last 6 decades has had quite a ride. There has been a lot of talk about it lately here in the local media in UK along with many celebrations in London (mostly to woo Indian business...
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Don't get me wrong - I love Italy - the country (whatever little I have seen), the food, the language, the people but all this is also true for India
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If you are like me, and your Hindi is crap, what better way to learn it by reading the news via Google News Hindi ?
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While this story is a few months old, I just came across it. Seems like China has accurate reproductions of the disputed Indo/China border down to scale - including accurate geographical features. Take a look below - the image on top is from China's reproduction and while on the bottom is on Google earth...
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Interesting story by the NYTimes on how American graduates are joining Indian companies and going to India for initial training before going back to their offices. They also talk a little about their experiences in a developing country and how some of the most basic things are different.
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BBC has this very inspiring story about how a few people give Indians from the poorest rung of society a chance to get into IIT (Indian Institute of Technology). Those of you are familiar with IIT, know how huge an achievement this is. Those who are not familiar with IIT - they are looked at IIT = MIT...
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Thanks to Rohit for sending me this - I have been just too busy (as you can probably tell), to even blog about this. There is an awesome letter to the Pakistani people (from Indian bloggers) , which is worth a read! If you have not been involved or know some of the Indian culture, you might not get the...
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Although I keep to my geeky side of things, every now and then I do come across a political story that I find intriguing for various reasons which I post here. This is one of them, reported by BBC about Nixon's dislike of 'witch' Indira as he called Indira Gandhi , India's Prime Minister from 1966 -...
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I stumbled across an interesting blog - all written in Hindi - and boy is my Hindi rusty! But this is an excellent example of the usage (and limitations) of a UNICODE implementation. Not sure of the content of the blog itself as it will .... ahem .... take me a little while reading up and understanding...