Vinay is no more.

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! You must have, at some point yesterday come across the heartbreaking news that Vinay Chakravarthy lost the battle against leukemia.
A spokesperson for the family has this to say [Via SAJA]
“Vinay was an amazing soul who [...]

A hairy proposition

Hair plays a big part in our culture. Men grow moustaches, women grow their hair long, sometimes men grow their hair long (a.k.a Dhoni). People take care of their hair - male or female. Parachute hair oil, shikakai shampoos, Anoop hair oil, and numerous products in desi and regular stores - the options available to [...]

Nepali woman in TB scare

Airplanes are a germaphobe’s worst nightmare come true, particularly trans-continental flight. Add stories like these and it makes you want to never set foot in an airplane ever again.
A Nepali woman who was on a flight from New Delhi to Chicago and then onto San Francisco was diagnosed with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, prompting [...]

Human trafficking grows, thanks to HIV.

Just when you thought that education would, in the long run, help resolve the growing number of HIV+ cases in India, the disease has morphed itself to create more trouble. Human trafficking networks are now after younger women, because that is what their ‘clients’ want.
The desire for younger women has been around for a long [...]

Sick in India: When urban legends come true

No wireless Internet in this hospital room
I’m sure most NRIs, DBDs, ABDs - whatever you designation be, have come across numerous horror stories of health issues desi people encountered when they were on a short visit to India. I’ve been fairly lucky that I managed to dodge that bullet over the last 8 years. But [...]

Indian couples now save at Sperm Banks

Daily News and Analysis has an interesting story about Indian Techie couples, who for the lack of time and inclination to get it on in the bedroom are now looking at artificial insemination.
20% of the couples, where both work in the IT industry seem to be the target clients here.

At least two out of [...]

Fresh Priest of Bel-Air

NPR Morning Edition had this neat story on an Indian Catholic priest reviving an old tuberculosis sanatorium and converting it into a hospital for HIV +ve patients.
Some 160 miles south of Mumbai, one Catholic priest and the Indian Red Cross have created what some say is a model for AIDS care in the developing world.
The [...]

You can still help Vinay

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How does Doogie Howser always manage to land someone in Jail?

An undated photo showing the Doc with his family. From ABC news.
Just like the original Doogie Howser landed Harold in Jail, the desi version managed to land his parents in Jail.
It was widely reported that Dr. K. Murugesan played a video clip to An Indian Medical Association chapter in Tamilnadu last week in an [...]

Condoms with vibrating rings banned in M.P. (Update)

You learn something new every day. This morning I learnt sex toys were illegal in India. Pornography, I knew that was illegal in India, at the tender age of 11-12. But it took me almost 2 whole decades to realize sex toys are illegal also.
M.P. Government: Vibrating condoms are the devilimg: via BBC.com
Now to the [...]

Desi Doogie Howser

15 year old in Trichy allegedly performs a C-section operation under the guidance of his doctor father. However brilliant a kid is, would you want someone that young operating on you?

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Shedding My Sari: STOP. Hammer time.

It’s all about your internal clock.
Is there a right time to have sex?
Scientifically you will find that Estrogen and Testosterone are at their highest levels early in the morning. In other words, we’re all “horniest” in the morning. Don’t let that stop you from having a mid-afternoon salt lassi or munching on [...]

Shedding My Sari: Hooded Mango Stones

Photo Source
Oh my gawd, Muffy, look at his foreskin.
It’s so big. *Ugh* He looks straight up smelly.
But, y’know, who understand those brown girls. *Eww*
They only talk to him, because, he is diirty, kay?
I mean, his foreskin, is just so ugly *Ugh*
I can’t believe it’s just so stretchy, it’ like,
out there covering [...]

Shedding My Sari: Curry & Cum

Picture source: Kitchens of India
Yoni butter and lingam juice is divinely delicious, usually. Give yours a try.
Does it taste like the sweet nectar of the gods or funk-nasty?
Here’s the deal, your juices are altered by what you eat. While I can’t get enough of mamma’s fish curry, I [...]

Born Again Virgins - Desi Ishtyle

For a very reasonable cost of Rs. 15,000-25,000, Indian women can now regain lost virginities. And we’re not talking about Baba Jadi-booti-wala (quacks who practice roadside treatments) types cures either. Plastic surgery can now fix what a horny boyfriend (pun unintended) broke.
It’s a 30-minute surgical procedure called hymenoplasty costing Rs 15,000 to 25,000 which has [...]

“I see dead people ….. in first class”

I heard this story on NPR Morning Edition this morning. Paul Trinder, a businessman from Brackley, Northamptonshire had a corpse of a woman, in his adjacent first class seat, on a flight from Delhi to Heathrow.
The body of a woman in her seventies, who died after the plane left Delhi for Heathrow, was carried by [...]

SW Engineer by day, Drug peddler by night - India’s rising drug problem.

While searching for another article, I came across this interesting news tid-bit on CNN-IBN.
Satish, a software engineer by profession by the day and a drug peddler by night is the changing face of Pune’s drug mafia. He works for an American MNC, and knows all about computers and drugs
I have always been a proponent of [...]

Beating around the Mulberry bush

“Here we go round the mulberry bushHere We Go Round the Mulberry Bush………”
So goes an old nursery rhyme.
Environmentalists and asthma sufferers seem to be singing the same tune on Mulberry trees in Islamabad, Pakistan.

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