And are you a celebrity? Or for that matter even an average person somewhat considerate of unwarranted exposure of your body.
Conspiracy theorist – Alex Jones on his website prisonplanet.com has this to say:
Claims on behalf of authorities that naked body scanner images are immediately destroyed after passengers pass through new x-ray backscatter devices have been proven fraudulent after it was revealed that naked images of Indian film star Shahrukh Khan were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.
The report is related to a yahoo news article …

This may soon be a reality!
Hebrew, Hindi, other scripts get Web address nod . Link
ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the regulating authority for domain names and accreditation authority for website registrars, announced support to non-latin characters (Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew and Hindi) in web addresses and they could be a reality by middle of next year.
ICANN has also called this the ‘biggest change’  since the inception of the internet in its crudest form 40 years ago.
More info from ICANN here:
Link
“The coming introduction of non-Latin characters represents the …

India’s top chefs have warned Scottish MPs to keep their hands off the rights to chicken tikka masala.
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So here’s the story, Scottish MPs made an attempt to ‘patent’ the name Chicken Tikka Masala, claiming the dish was made in Glasgow, in 1970’s. They got a spicy reply back from Indian food historians who trashed the claim and suggested that the dish has been around for decades (some others claim centuries).
Wikipedia suggests, this (without a reference, though)
The literal meaning of tikka in Panjabi is “bits, pieces” (fron Sanskrit ṭikka, m., “Cake.” …

The Roma Gypsies may very well turn out to be the first Indian immigrants to the West.
And what a journey it has been.
Historians agree that the Roma’s origins lie in north-west India and that their journey towards Europe started between the 3rd and 7th Centuries AD – a massive migration prompted by timeless reasons: conflicts, instability and the seeking of a better life in big cities such as Tehran, Baghdad and, later on, Constantinople.
Consisting of largely manual laborers and entertainers, they moved to the Middle East and from there to …

*missed call – calling someone with the callerID feature on, and terminating the call before  the receiver takes up the call and either of you gets charged a penny (or a paisa)
Ever been part of a conversation like this?
Caller 1: When will you start from your home?
Caller 2: About 5 PM.
Caller 1: Are you sure?
Caller 2: I’ll give you a missed call when I start, how about that.
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This seems quite normal to me, and according to TOI, it’s because I’m an Indian. Though the report titled – “Only Indians make, …

Bangladesh has adopted daylight savings time. So has Pakistan. US and UK have been doing it for years. Why not India? Why not Delhi Savings Time?

According to news reports, 64 year old, Charles Sobhraj, tied the knot with 20-year old Nepali girl, Nihita Biswas.
Caption: Love is blind, and plain dumb
Source: sify.com
Charles currently cooling his heels in a jail in Nepal, where he was arrested in Sept. of 2003 on prior charges of murdering two women from North America in 1975 (link). His name is linked to around 20 murders and he has spent a considerable time in jails around India, before escaping at least once after drugging the prison guards on the pretext of his …

Now if you are reading this, it’s proof enough, the world hasn’t ended yet (I’m not talking about married folks, for you, it has ).
Nataraj image at the CERN centreSource: about.com
One of the largest science experiments in recent times, recreation of the Big Bang, the beginning of this world as we know it (and something the creationists from all religions won’t agree with). The Large Hadron Collider experiment, taking place near the French-Swiss border in a 27 kilometer long tunnel underground (link) has been the subject of intense …

A Pew Global Attitudes Project poll for 2008 showed that the image of the US severely tarnished by the Iraq war is up compared to the past years, including in India. [NYT] [NYT map]
The survey also indicates that people worldwide view Barack Obama more favorably than John McCain “to do the right thing regarding world affairs”. Among other topics, people in India (China and Australia) were least worried about the worldwide economic slowdown. While that is not surprising, considering the double digits growth India has been experiencing on a annual …