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Delhi before the rebellion of 1857 . Printed (1860) click for a larger image source

Happy 2008! Hope all your new years was as good as mine, yup 11 glasses of water, Jools on telly and fireworks - can't beat it! It's hard to blog these days, blogging is something that can be only done in leisure it seems, although not in leisure now, but posts with not a great deal of input from me does not take much effort... The recent Bhutto fiasco brought about, what is typical of Southasia, and really most of the world, the emphasis on hereditary ties. It was truly comical to see Bilawal Zardari, Benazir Bhutto's only son, be announced the natural successor to his mother and to the Pakistan's People's Party (PPP). And naturally, his father was made the deputy leader, who will in the meantime run the party while his son finishes off his education. The greatest moment came when Bilawal gave his speech and in the heat of the moment roared (well, quoted), "democracy is the best revenge!". So naive and so paradoxical... Here is a post epitomising my sen...

First came across this phrase in a bollywood song from the film Bombay to Bangkok . The hilarity of bollywood is the songs that they come up with. So in a recent conversation about this to a friend I discovered that 'same same but different' is actually a common phrase used in places like Thailand and hence the adaptation into the song of the movie which is a cross cultural Indian-Thai production. Further research into the phrase led me to the Urban Dictionary which told me that the phrase is: Used a lot in Thailand, especially in attempts to sell something but can mean just about anything depending on what the user is trying to achieve. Q "Is this a real rolex?" A " Yes Sir, same same but different" and; Wiki told me that it is Tinglish (or Thainglish): The imperfect form of English produced by native Thai speakers due to language interference from the first language. Differences from native English include incorrect pronunciation , wrong wor...

If you like solving puzzles, you will enjoy this. Reminds me of the PS2 game, Practical Intelligence Quotient , of course PQ is much more aesthetically pleasing. Objective is to move the boxes to get to the exit. Visit link or play here: Am I blogging about games? :s

Addictive website that donates rice as you play their word game. For every question you get right it donates 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Programmes , five questions gets you 100 grains of rice. Currently the amount of rice donated is 7,536,669,470 grains, over seven billion, not sure how much that amounts to physically but you can keep a check of the totals here . The rice is paid for by the advertisers who appear at the bottom of the screen. Apparently if you see an advert x-many of times it will have a profound effect on you, you may (or will ) actually go out and buy their products. I don't think it works on me though but I do seem to be addicted to google -_- Despite the advertisers, it is actually a good way to enhance your vocabulary, it has a maximum of 50 levels of which I have mastered half. Here's the link: FreeRice On a little side note: "The United Nations estimates that the cost to end world hunger completely , along with diseases rela...

I never did get into Strictly Come Dancing when it was launched a few years back - but now I am a totally devoted fan (of two years). I like ballroom, although this isn't strictly ballroom but it has enough ballroom in it to keep me happy. I thought I'd share two of my favourite dances (I have many). I'm very partial to the Latin dances it seems... Here's Mark Ramprakrash, the Cricketer and Matt DiAngelo, the Eastender. The Argentine Tango The Paso Doble