Stories about India from July, 2007
World Ponders the 7 New Wonders
On July 7, 2007, the world elected a list of “New 7 Wonders”. Chosen by global vote via internet, telephone and SMS, many argue that the election was unfair and favored the broadband-connected West (how else would you explain the Statue of Liberty being one of the 21 finalists?). The...
Hindi Blogosphere: A brouhaha, customer service and blogger meets!
So it's after about one and a half month that we are looking at what has been going on in Hindi blogosphere. The dust had barely settled down when it rose again, this time on the issue of expulsion of a blog from the leading Hindi blog aggregator, Narad. For...
India: Change and Calcutta
The closing of a sweet shop in Calcutta, gets Heartcrossings musing on change and Calcutta.
India: Children and Singapore Airlines
Blogpourri on flying Singapore Airlines with young children, with some words of advice to airlines regarding making travel more comfortable for parents and kids.
India: HR Mismanagement
I, Me, Myself on Human Resources Management as practiced in India, and the inherent hypocrisy in some situations.
India: Women and Presidents
Random Thoughts on feminism, media and the Presidential Candidate.
India: Kashmir and Illusions
At Jule!, a member of a group that traveled through Kashmir pens a letter in which she talks about the illusion of a different Kashmir.
India: Extremism and Islam
IndianMuslims on extremism and Islam, the notion of piousness and the urgent need to change things at the grass level.
India: The Taj Mahal and Media
Greatbong has a witty and biting take on the recent race to establish the Taj Mahal in the list of the new seven wonders of the world.
Bangla blog musings: Mosque, mausoleum, music and Marxism
The Taj Mahal has won a place of glory in the recently announced list of the seven wonders of the world, much to the delight of Bangla bloggers. Shaukat Husein details out the complete list of winners but rues the absence of the Pyramids amongst them. A debate has ensued...
India: N Ram and China
The Acorn rips to pieces an opinion piece in an established newspaper – which appears to favour Chinese policies and doubt the Dalai lama.
India: Stripping on the street
To Each Its Own on a woman who had to strip down to her undergarments to ensure cops took notice of her grievances related to dowry demands from her husband and in laws.
Tamil Blogosphere: The Cheroot Store
The Cheroot is a cylindrical cigar with both ends clipped during manufacture. Since cheroots do not taper, they are inexpensive to roll mechanically, and their low cost makes them particularly popular. The word cheroot comes from French cheroute, from Tamil curuttu/churuttu/shuruttu – roll of tobacco. This word could have been...
South Asia: Doctors in the UK
With doctors in the NHS being connected to the terror plot in the UK, The Daily Rhino on the politics of healthcare and NHS.
Congratulations, Rising Voices Grantees
We are thrilled to announce the first five citizen media outreach projects to receive Rising Voices microgrants. In total we received 142 project proposals from over 40 different countries. What all of the project proposals have in common is a desire to enable their communities to tell their own stories, to write their own first draft of history, to document their traditions and culture before they are washed away by the tides of globalization.
India: Trees and Courts
Metroblogging Chennai on the courts coming to the rescue of trees that were to be cut down by the Chennai Corporation.
India: The Taj Mahal
With the race on for the world's new seven wonders, Twilight Fairy has a lovely photo post on the Taj Mahal.
India: Rock and Counterculture
Mixed Bag explores the notion of music in counterculture, looking specifically at rock music in India.
India: Water on the streets
To Each Its Own has photographs of the water logged situation in Mumbai over the weekend because of the rains.
India: The next President
VKpedia on the Presidential candidate Patil – “In essence, it looks like we have to gear up not for our first woman President, but a beneficiary of tokenism, opportunism and nepotism”
