This edition of Incredible India focuses on the Great Indian Hunger Strike tamasha. Can anyone please help us resolve this dilemma - Every day in India, some group of idiots launch a hunger strike. Yet India’s population is not going down and more and more Indians increasingly resemble Namitha. 😉 Here are some of the different […]
Image Source: WHO, 2010 Mera Bharat Mahan. Incredible India. Shining India. Wow, nice sounding feel-good words, na? Folks, as we were desultorily roaming across the gullies and byways of the Internet a few hours back, we stumbled upon a Bloomberg story about a most disturbing crisis that’s very open but yet not acknowledged by most […]
Here comes the 13th instalment of Incredible India with those only-in-India stories. * India is one of those unique countries where humans are routinely treated worse than pigs. But dogs are now being treated better than humans. So what if several hundred million Indians lack proper homes and live in crumbling structures amidst filth and squalor. […]
Guys, here comes the third instalment of Amazing America. You think folks here are any less weirder than back home in India. No way. * Los Angeles county spent about $13,000 to pursue a $1,004 debt owed by a grandma living on social security. No kidding. Read this L.A.Times story. * A few weeks back, […]
This is an American tragedy. A new study by the Pew Center has found that 7.32 million American adults were in prison, on parole or on probation in 2007, a tripling over the last 25 years. Folks, that makes it 1 in every 31 American adults in prison, on parole or on probation. For Blacks, […]
Wonderful News. At last an American President who understands the tragedy of unaffordable healthcare Folks, high healthcare costs is resulting in a bankruptcy every 30 seconds in America. A few minutes back in his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama said: [T]he cost of our health care has weighed down […]