The BBC have a very clued-in article about "Hinglish" the mishmash of English with Desi words and constructions. The title is "It's Hinglish, innit?" which may not be very funny, unless you know that British Indians tend to use the British tag phrase "innit?" at the end of sentences that British English would have ended with other tag phrases such ( Read more... )

Cat Flat bed scanner

Life Hacker interview with Merlin Mann, the GTD pioneer behind 43 Folders, Buddhist and Mac evangelist. Read it for the language, if for nothing else. Groovy!

Cold photos from the Partnachklamm Gorge near Garmish-Partenkirchen

Warm photos from Kovalam beach in Kerala, India. The photographer, ezee123, posts breath-taking photos ( Read more... )

It's very windy and earlier the rain was lashing down. 25mph the forecast says for today, so I guess it's not so surprising that the trees outside my livingroom window are doing the macarena. Predictably the tube problem indicator is lit up like a tree in late December ( Read more... )

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Hajmola brand
Churna list

puneets' wedding has been fixed for 3 February and I've confirmed that I'm coming. I'm so excited ( Read more... )

Seattle: 944.6mm
Delhi: 714mm
London: 585mm
Linköping: 560mm
San Francisco: 508mm

The weather in Delhi is really bad right now. It's rained for three days and another rain storm was predicted for tonight. At Sapient everybody was ordered to leave the office before 6pm local time so that they'd get home safely. puneets texted me an hour or two later, saying that the rain was worse than anything he'd ever seen and that there were gale ( Read more... )