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Where Your Tea Comes From. And Why It Matters
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Tagged: Chamraj Tea Estate, Fair Trade Tea, India
Tagged: Chamraj Tea Estate, Fair Trade Tea, India
8 Racist Ads You Won’t Believe Are From the Last Few Years
The cracked.com headline said it all, so we presented as is. Ponds white beauty featuring Priyanka Chopra, Saif Ali Khan and Neha Dhupia is right up there with 7 others…that is if you don’t count the 5 whole ads Ponds needed to tell us white is better than brown skin.
Hey now there’s a topic for [...]
Hey now there’s a topic for [...]
How To Get People To Take The Stairs Instead Of Escalators
Like this….by making it fun.
Check out more of Volkswagen’s initiative at thefuntheory.com – “a site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is [...]
Check out more of Volkswagen’s initiative at thefuntheory.com – “a site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is [...]
Priests Crack Coconuts on Devotees’ Heads.
Blame the Brits…You’ll see why in this video below.
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Tagged: Coconut cracking on head, India, Prists, Ritual
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Offensive Ad Watch: Comcast ‘Bus’ Commercial. WTF?
This ad is just deeply disgusting and offensive on too many levels. We’re hoping this is a fake, though haven’t been able to verify it. If it’s not, then Comcast has hit a new low of Comcastic.
Tagged: Comcast 'Bus' Commercial, India
Tagged: Comcast 'Bus' Commercial, India
‘Movement’ Rallying Around Airing Clean Laundry
When hanging clothes to dry is a problem that launches a movement.
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Tagged: Project Laundry List
“Yes Madam, Sir”: Documenting Kiran Bedi….India’s First Woman Police Officer
A film documenting Kiran Bedi…..one for the list of films I wish I had made. Hats off to Australian director-producer Megan Doneman, who had the honor. Controversial, tempestuous…these are just some of the positive adjectives used to describe Kiran Bedi. I just think of her as one kickass woman who inspires.
The film was first shown [...]
The film was first shown [...]
Windows 7 made with 7,000 dominos, by Microsoft India team
We hope it’s not a metaphor for Windows 7. And, that an equal amount of time was spent coding it to be bug free.
Hattip: Brier Dudley, Seattle Times
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Tagged: India, Windows 7
Hattip: Brier Dudley, Seattle Times
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Red Lips & Cool Music Watch – Zascha Moktan
Born in New Delhi to Nepalese dad and German mom, and opened for John Legend and Alicia Keys’ Diary Tour. Now a soul singing, guitarist and pianist in her own right.
Hattip: Darjeeling Forum
Tagged: Zascha Moktan
Hattip: Darjeeling Forum
Tagged: Zascha Moktan
Parsing Nanospeak
The TOI tells us three Nanos caught fire – the world’s cheapest car. We loved this Tata spokeman’s quote, “There was a minor emanation of smoke, following which there was localised meltdown of some of the wires in the combination switch area probably because of a short circuit.”
A long winded way to say, “The wires [...]
A long winded way to say, “The wires [...]
Village ‘witches’ paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement in Jharkhand (Disturbing images)
Story via BBC – warning: the images are graphic….we’d like to say a lot. A whole lot. But there are not enough words in the dictionary that would adequately express our anger, disgust and horror of what happened here.
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Shyam Benegal Makes Plea To Iran For Acclaimed Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Mumbai Visit.
(Hindustan Times) Making a case for artistic freedom, Shyam Benegal, chairman of the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI), has written to the Iranian embassy to let acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi (49) come to the city for the 11th Mumbai Film Festival.
Panahi, an internationally acclaimed award-winning director was arrested on July 30, 2009 at a [...]
Panahi, an internationally acclaimed award-winning director was arrested on July 30, 2009 at a [...]
Ad watch: Montblanc Anil Kapoor Ad
Write your own destiny. Or if you have truck loads of cash and own this, you’ll probably be writing the destiny of others.
We find it’s not what you write with, but what you write that’s more important.
Tagged: Anil Kapoor, Bollywood, India, Montblanc
We find it’s not what you write with, but what you write that’s more important.
Tagged: Anil Kapoor, Bollywood, India, Montblanc
AcYut – India’s first indigenously developed Humanoid
One of the world’s 8 most enduring robots developed at the Centre for Robotics & Intelligent Systems, BITS Pilani, India, won a bronze medal at Robogames 2k9 in San Francisco. And has its own blog. So cute!
AcYut means the “the imperishable ” or “the one that does not fall down” in Sanskrit…though it does seem [...]
AcYut means the “the imperishable ” or “the one that does not fall down” in Sanskrit…though it does seem [...]
The ‘youngest headmaster in the world’ – Give Him A Nobel Prize
(BBC News) At 16 years old, Babar Ali must be the youngest headmaster in the world. He’s a teenager who is in charge of teaching hundreds of students in his family’s backyard, where he runs classes for poor children from his village. The story of this young man from Murshidabad in West Bengal is a [...]
Mukesh Ambani voluntarily caps his salary at $3.3 Million
(Washington Post) MUMBAI, India — India’s richest man announced he will voluntarily cap his compensation at 150 million rupees ($3.3 million) this year, saying he will get by on about a third of his take-home pay from the previous year.
Mukesh Ambani’s flagship company, Reliance Industries, said Thursday his decision reflects his “desire to set a [...]
Mukesh Ambani’s flagship company, Reliance Industries, said Thursday his decision reflects his “desire to set a [...]
October 16th Is World Food Day. 10 Things To Do. Even If It Is Just For A Day.
What do these world days do anyways? They get reported in passing, a few events happen around the world, and then it seems we all move on.Today is World Food Day.
We know the staggering statistics on world hunger. Lets honor this day and do something about it. Even if its just for one day….lets all [...]
We know the staggering statistics on world hunger. Lets honor this day and do something about it. Even if its just for one day….lets all [...]
Queen Elizabeth To Host Bollywood Spectacle
The Queen will be treated to a Bollywood spectacle as she hosts a Buckingham Palace reception for Britain’s Indian community. The palace’s lavish ballroom will be the setting on Tuesday evening for a routine by the Nutkhut dance company, based on its hit show Bollywood Steps, inspired by Indian movies. (Full Story Here)
Wonder whether Queen [...]
Wonder whether Queen [...]
Stunning Work Of Art: Sudarshan Patnaik honors Obama’s Peace Prize In Sand
As only a world renowned sand artist like Mr. Patnaik can do…
“With this sculpture we want to congratulate Obama on his winning the Nobel Peace Prize and we expect that after this prize Obama will work towards the world peace,” Patnaik added.(Yahoo news)
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“With this sculpture we want to congratulate Obama on his winning the Nobel Peace Prize and we expect that after this prize Obama will work towards the world peace,” Patnaik added.(Yahoo news)
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