Hats off to Mr. Sridhar for conceiving something as beautiful and practical as the Bloom Box. Hope it ‘energizes’ the world in the right direction.

India-Born Scientist Launches Sand-Based Electricity Maker
Chidanand Rajghatta | TNN

What is this crap? Why are most international sites, including bbc, cnn, google etc. hell bent on confirming to PoK as part of Pakistan?

Should google not apologize to India and do away with this PoK-in-Pakistan theory??

I love India. I love its diversity, its idiosyncrasies, its magic. I love its people. I love the way we stay unorganized, and still manage to surprise them all with the end product. i love the intelligence that’s found in abundance here. there are thousand sundry other things i may love to list here, but i choose not to, as there’s another aspect to us, which i would much rather want to highlight. and that’s the cynicism, the hypocrisy that we usually propagate at every possible instance. Here’s what i mean:

There was a time when railways used to serve fairly decent food. With enough variety in a plastic tray at a reasonable cost. Imagine my surprise when i asked for matar paneer and paratha combo in jammu mail, on my way back from pathankot to delhi. Some quick observations, which you can test for yourself from the image too:
1. Extremely oily matar paneer subzi. Every little piece of matar and paneer was floating in a sea of oil
2. 3 cold parathas wrapped in a glitzy silver gift wrapping paper, complete with a ribbon that held the paper together
3. paper plate, which i had thought had become extinct…hence you can imagine how it feels like to hold food on a flimsy paper plate, in a moving train
4. Disgusting taste, to say the least.

Just got back from a mini vacation to dalhousie and mcleodganj. And given my passion for clicking random images which bring about the idiocyncracies to india to the fore, i present a few from my latest trip! Hope you enjoy them!