Am at home celebrating with family (taken day off) . Happy Diwali everyone !
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What exactly is that ?
Sameera Reddy walking the ramp for designer Falguni and Shane, at Wills India Fashion Week ’09 : What is this – the design from scrap contest ? (And I’m not talking about Sameera). Also look at the audience – they seem slack-jawed in shock.
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Earlier this week, we found out that $150000 was spent on pretty-ing up Sarah Palin. So the hockey-mom who tries to identify with the Joe-sixpacks and the common man, shops at Neiman Marcus and Saks. Nice. If I was someone contributing to the McCain-Palin campaign, I would be pretty mad right now.Yeah, you send them […]
Read the rest of this entry »Music : blast from the past
Two beautiful songs I re-heard recently. The first is “Maeri” by “Euphoria”, whose lead singer is Palash Sen. Sen is a doctor who also sings, or it could be the other way around. Euphoria’s songs are mostly energetic, almost folksy numbers, with an urban twist. Maeri is comparitively a soft, slow number : [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E1xbX-QSGY] The […]
Read the rest of this entry »Paying taxes is unpatriotic (and so is obeying the law)
This election is pretty surreal. It started with McCain choosing Palin as his running-mate, and then increased when we discovered that Palin couldn’t open her mouth without committing gaffes (seeing Russia from her house indeed !), or give straight answers during the VP debate. As a VP, or as a President (and I don’t even […]
Read the rest of this entry »Of personal integrity and the race for the White House
When this race started, I sort of thought of Obama and McCain as equals in my head – both basically decent men, who would do their best for the country. However, as the days have gone by, Obama is starting to come off as the better man, cool-tempered even in a crisis, reasonable, and more […]
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