Posted in Current Affairs, PuneCity Info at 6:54 am by The Editor
Kerala is nice and green since there is no industry there; and also because Keralites go to other places(like Pune) and work. So if all of us have to go to Kerala on vacation and want it to be clean and green, we need to ensure that we have sufficient jobs in Pune, for Keralites.
That said(how much weirder can I get), now that we have decided on why we need to have jobs in Pune, we can concentrate on other peripheral issues. Read more »
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Posted in Current Affairs, Sports at 9:52 am by The Editor
The Indian cricket team lacks 2 things: Killer Instinct and Self Belief.
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Posted in Current Affairs, Humour, Miscellaneous at 8:01 am by The Intellectual Terrorist
The Pune rave party that got 280 young people arrested received mixed reactions. Read more »
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Posted in Current Affairs, Miscellaneous at 10:56 am by PuneTalks
So the Supreme Court has stayed the execution of Santosh Kumar Singh. It wasn’t wholly unexpected and yet it does feel strange. The spirit of Priyadarshini will need few more weeks or may be months to finally rest in peace. Read more »
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Posted in Current Affairs, Inspiration at 1:19 pm by PuneTalks
My mother used purdah. She wore a burqa with a net cover in front of the face. It reminded me of the meatsafes in my grandmother’s house. One had a net door made of cloth, the other of metal. But the objective was the same: keeping the meat safe. My mother was put under a burqa by her conservative family. 
They told her that wearing a burqa would mean obeying Allah. And if you obey Allah, He would be happy with you and not let you burn in hellfire. My mother was afraid of Allah and also of her own father. He would threaten her with grave consequences if she didn’t wear the burqa. Read more »
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Posted in Current Affairs, Inspiration at 7:12 am by PuneTalks
“If you are to suffer, you should suffer in the interest of the country.” - Jawaharlal Nehru, speaking to villagers who were to be displaced by the Hirakud Dam, 1948. Read more »
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Posted in Current Affairs at 9:32 am by PuneTalks
Arundhati Roy, Guardian - Saturday September 29, 2001
In the aftermath of the unconscionable September 11 suicide attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre, an American newscaster said: “Good and evil rarely manifest themselves as clearly as they did last Tuesday. People who we don’t know massacred people who we do. And they did so with contemptuous glee.” Then he broke down and wept. Read more »
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Posted in Current Affairs at 9:28 am by PuneTalks
How many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilisation
Arundhati Roy, Wednesday April 2, 2003 The Guardian Read more »
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Posted in Current Affairs at 11:04 pm by The Editor
Another bomb blast.
More people killed.
The government issues strong warnings.
Nothing happens.
Until a few months later .. when another bomb blasts. And the same cycle repeats.
What’s the solution? What do you think we should do as a country, as a political entity, as a people?
Let us know what you think. We will be sending the consolidated messages to major news channels in 3 weeks.
Add your thoughts in the comments section.
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Posted in Current Affairs, Humour at 7:29 am by The Intellectual Terrorist
I’m socially at that stage where everyone around me is having sex. And they’re making this knowledge very public with a,” I have some good news”.
What’s good news about having kids? After all aren’t kids the same nasty creatures that have robbed me of my friends and turned them into that extremely weird species called parents?
KIDS. That 4 letter word!!
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