Entries from October 2007

October 31, 2007

Karva Chauth Trends

Karwa Chawth is an annual fast observed by married Hindu women in North India for the long life and  well-being  of their husbands. The women break their fast only after the moon is sighted/worshipped. The husbands feed the first morsel of food to their wives.  Men and children excitedly run in and out of the [...]

October 30, 2007

Getting Your Passport Renewed

Welcome to incredible India. Lots of taxpayers money is spent on doing what we don’t need to do at the cost of what is urgently required to be done.
Let me explain- We need a police verification before a passport is issued. Terrorists and illegal immigrants get a passport even after that , this is a [...]

October 29, 2007

A Taste For Potatoes

Indians are suffering from a syndrome which seems to have no treatment in sight- the pseudo-Indian syndrome. The symptoms of this syndrome are evident everywhere. Schoolchildren lighting diyas in villages and towns, people in remote corners of India distributing sweets, women dancing with joy and so on, all because the son or a daughter of [...]