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* I’m Not Me – Only in India can infamous personalities get away/try to get away with hilarious claims that I’m Not Me. Even if there are video tapes about their sexcapades or witnesses claiming they were driving the SUV that mowed down some poor pavement dwellers, I’m not Me is the arrogant response. Hey, it works most of the time.
(Deccan Herald)

* Nude Worship to Solve Political Problems – Only in India, folks can such nonsense happen. Hey, it’s India. Why are you acting surprised?
(Times of India)

* IIM-Graduate Sabzivala’s Travails – Only in India, can the path of a well-educated first generation entrepreneur be a bed of thorns. Hey, it’s Bihar, after all.
(NDTV)

* Padma Shri for having babies? – Bollywood actress Kajol has received a Padma Shri award from the Government of India. The only noteworthy thing Kajol has done in the last decade is to have two babies. Say, do they award Padma Shris in India for having babies? Another actress Tabu also won the Padma Shri. Again, we can’t think of any great achievement by one of our favorites. Did Tabu get it under the senior citizens category?
(Press Information Bureau)

* Gultis will do anything to land in the U.S. – We’ve never understood the Telugu fascination for Amreeka. Is it the hope of a big, fat dowry? A bunch of Telugu students in California are in trouble with U.S. immigration.
(Economic Times)

* Barbarian Indian Mafia – An Indian official who dared to question fuel theft was burnt alive by the local Mafia in the Continue reading »

* Only in India Stories – If your subordinate asks for leave, better grant it pronto unless you want him to behave like this policeman in Andhra Pradesh.
(Times of India)

* TCS on Ferocious Hiring Spree – U.S. Job Killer Tata Consultancy Services to hire 37,000 Coolies in fiscal year 2012 (April 1, 2011-March 31, 2012). The software company had 1,86,914 employees at the end of December and plans to add another 12,000-15,000 this year. High time we tightened our H1B and L1 Visa rules.
(ET)

* UID Project Over-ambitious – The Nandan Nilekani headed Unique Identification Authority of India project has technical glitches and violates privacy, say some experts. Well, Nandan has always been over-ambitious. Right, Nandan?
(Hindustan Times)

* Ph.D Factories in India – Mumbai University has turned into a Ph.D factory churning out a doctorate a day in the last 10 years (after excluding for holidays) for a total of 2,904.
(Times of India)

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* Incest Rapes Increase – If Indians are making news, you can be sure it’s for all the wrong reasons.

Indian fathers, grandfathers, brothers, uncles and sons are screwing raping their close family members more often than before.

No kidding.

More details here.

Only in India News 1 – What’s wrong with these Tamils? 92% of Chennaiites will not have sex with a person of different religion or ethnicity.

This is what happens when you drink Cooum water and watch Rajinikanth movies.
(Outlook)

* Australia Says No to Indian Beggars – Australian government said Up Yours to Indian Foreign Minister S.M.Krishna’s plaintive cries for Uranium to power nuclear power plants.

Australia is miffed that India has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. SI strongly supports India’s decision not to sign NPT.
(Times of India)

* Mobile Number Portability – At last, fed-up subscribers can now say Up Yours to their cell phone service provider and jump ship to another provider without losing their telephone number.
(Hindu)

* Body-less Head Found – Headless bodies are so 2010. A plastic bag containing the severed head of a woman and a dead baby was found in a Tamil Nadu bus.
(Times of India)

* Indian Intelligence Chiefs (RAW & IB) – Interesting details on the ascension and background of new RAW chief Sanjeev Tripathi and new IB Director Nehchal Sandhu.
(Outlook)

Only in India News 2 – There was no stampede on the road to Sabarimala, claims police in the South Indian state of Kerala where 102 people died in a stampede last week. Too much of Toddy makes one speak too much nonsense.
(BBC)

Bollywood – Peepli Live out of the Oscars race. No, we’re not surprised.
(Deccan Chronicle)

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