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Tampico! Tampico! Tampico!
By Mahadevan RameshMahadevan_ramesh@hotmail.com1975 Mexican restaurant magnate Marno McDermott and investor and ex-Green Bay Packer football star, Max McGee, opened the first Chi-Chi’s restaurant in...
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Some Random Points on Reverse Migration
(This post is mostly for the NRIs who are ensconced in the USA. But others can also read it for fun)I can’t believe I have actually completed my ‘reverse migration’ to India, after having lived in the...
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Newspaper stories
By Mahadevan RameshMahadevan_ramesh@hotmail.com(This is a rather long Blog entry, folks. So, pour yourself a very large cup of coffee if you want to get through this)Every couple of months or so in...
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The Creature that came from Outer Space
Mahadevan_ramesh@hotmail.comIt has been slightly over a year since I reverse-migrated back to India. Now that I am on this side of the NRI-divide, I often play host to expatriate desis on their...
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Two Silly Poems on Lalu and Missus
Poem 1If Brazil’s Lula meets LaluIt’ll be a Bubba meeting a BabuBut if Chairman Mao had met Thurman UmaOr had a rappo’ with OprahOr Buta, he’d’ve been breaking a taboo.Poem 2Once there was a Devi...
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Law and Justice
Mahadevan_ramesh@hotmail.comIt has been more than a week since Saddam Hussain was killed and put away. Video footage of his last moments was an assault on one’s senses and sensibilities. It was...
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Taj Mahal
(Fiction)Mahadevan_ramesh@hotmail.comI am Sadiq Ali. And I built the Taj Mahal – in a manner of speaking. All those highly-nuanced inlaid ornamental work, meticulous inscription of the Holy Koran...
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Fools and Bigger Fools - A Modern Day Fairy Tale
This is the story of Jaggu the Fool, as he was known around the rundown slum he lived in. Some people said that it was his ferocious wife who drove him to this sorry state. Nonetheless he remained a...
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Golden Globalization
As someone who lived in the USA for dog years, I still have a voyeuristic interest in the goings on out there. I am a confirmed CNN junkie and come evening, me and my mom will have these major TV...
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Slumdog Millionaire and beyond
Taking a cue from the resounding success of Slumdog Millinaire, in the USA and in India, Bollywood is wasting no time in re-releasing yesteryear’s Indian hits in the USA. Yesterday’s Beverly Hills mega...
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A New Treat
Apparently, a right wing Hindu organization is in the final stages of making a major splash in the beverage market – by introducing packaged ‘cow’s urine’. According to sources, the product will be...
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Singapore Blogs
Singapore Blogs – Part 1Singapore is a great place – lush green vegetation, industrious people, very law abiding population. And people are so courteous that transactions are always pleasant. Where you...
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A Swansong in Raag Mishra Mand
FictionThe Intensive Care Unit of C. S. Hospital is a very quiet place, if you are willing to ignore the rat-a-tat of life support equipment and the occasional buzz of an alarm sounding off. Tangled in...
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The Life and Times of the Cheshire Cat
(This piece was written for the Golden Jubilee of IIT Kanpur - and is about the student magazine called 'The Cheshire Cat', that we used to run when we were students. Some old issues of the Cat,...
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One World Cup. Three Indias
Barely has the hangover of winning the cricket World Cup passed, we are already seamlessly transported to yet more cricket - the inaugural pageantry of another IPL season, with his imperial majesty,...
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New MBA courses
We are living in an exciting time here in India, with so many scams and scandals unfolding. We have a good time sitting in front of the TV (at the edge of the seat, no less) and watching all these...
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Algebra of Democracy
It was fun time in India last week, with election results coming out for five state Assemblies. Being a political junkie, I didn’t have enough of those political commentaries, insightful interviews,...
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