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Hilarious!

(via DesiPundit)

Time-bomb

Adnan Sami is was a walking time-bomb! Imagine the horrendous mess if he had exploded!

Tagged (sigh)

The dreaded thing is upon me. I got tagged. Much as I hate it, I do not want to alienate half the people who read my blog. So here goes. My favourite Indian author books.

Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur
Clichéd, yes. But I like it. No, I love it.

Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
One of the very few books that simply blew me away with sheer detail. Mumbai itself is a character (and thats half the reason I like this book). The way Vikram Chandra has brought out details of Mumbai is amazing. For every facet of Mumbai that I could recognise, I saw another that I did not know. Brilliant. Go read it.

The life and times of Jamsetji Tata by R. M. Lala
A biographical account or JRD Tata. I read this when I was in school, and found his story very inspiring. Mostly for how he set upon pioneering aviation in India.

Plane Trignometry by S. L. Loney
Okay, I am only kidding.

On my list:
Maximum City by Suketu Mehta
The KaoBoys of R&AW: Down Memory Lane by B. Raman
Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Mission to Pakistan: An Intelligence Agent in Pakistan by Maloy Krishna Dhar
Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda
Tarbela Damned: Pakistan Tamed by C. N. Anand (only because I hear it is so bad that it is good)

And I live by how I wish others would. No one is tagged.

Protests outside local court

A group of people staged a protest outside a local court in Delhi after the court passed judgement in a divorce case. In its judgement, the judge observed that "marriage was anathema without sex" and ruled that a person can seek divorce is the spouse is infected with HIV.

"This judgement is a disgrace and claiming that sex is part of marriage is totally against our culture," claimed a representative for the protest group. "We are a group of people who have no regular jobs and so we have decided to devote our lives to cleaning up the filth in our society. We will continue to oppose everything that is alien to our culture." Questions about what our culture is went unanswered.

Of course, our moral protectors are always correct. So there you have it, we do not have sex after marriage. All sex is before marriage. None after. Which, come to think of it, is probably true anyway.