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old article - but whattheheck...

strange wedfellows

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Selvakumar, 33, told the paper he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and hung their bodies from a tree 15 years ago.

"After that my legs and hands got paralyzed and I lost hearing in one ear," he said in the report.

The paper said an astrologer had told Selvakumar the wedding was the only way he could cure the maladies. It did not say whether his situation had improved.
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The paper said the groom and his family then had a feast, while the dog got a bun.
talk about discrimination




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It's just everywhere these days! A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6161691.stm
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paleface...


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talkin condoms - found some interesting data ...

Approximately 2.3 million people are living with HIV in India.
BBC World Service Trust produced a public service advertising campaign to make condoms more acceptable across India.
Campaign began: 2006
Campaign ended: 2009

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In two years, the BBC World Service Trust’s condom campaign reached 150 million men across India and brought about improved attitudes towards condoms across a range of criteria.

An endline survey was conducted during January-February 2009 focusing on men living in the high HIV-prevalent states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.

The impact of the campaign was measured by comparing the findings of the endline with a baseline study, which was conducted in 2007 using the same methodology.

The research showed that embarrassment around purchasing condoms has decreased and men are more likely to discuss and use them, compared to men who were not exposed to the campaign.
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Maoist Insurgency in India

Pardon the ignorance but what do the Maoists want?
Separate state? Communism?
I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.
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Brilliant!!!
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Originally Posted by Indojingai View Post Pardon the ignorance but what do the Maoists want?
Separate state? Communism?
saar, for your kind perusal for phool details redirect to -
masala chai and chat: weapons of mass desperation



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Originally Posted by brishti View Post [IMG]however... i am non violent!
kidnapping - cheh!

them geese have flown southward ho for winter AFH!

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old articles, nontheless, relevant.
Thanks, brishti - I do not fancy a beating.

I read your links; Plano, Texas comes to mind where every high school was chock full fo BMWs and MERCs and HUMMERs, driven by high school kids.

In no way am I justifying this kind of indulgence by parents, but, PUHlease, it's NOTHING compared to what I have seen in west.

(For some reason, my 't' key has become uncooperative in the sentence above, disallowing me to type in 'the' before 'west'.)
It has also distracted me to the degree that I have lost my train of thought.

Just no beatings, please, brishti.
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masala chai and chat: weapons of mass desperation



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Nice long article... I'll read sometime later. Thanks.
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This item made me laugh:


"Confusing New Year time change in Bangladesh"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8436186.stm
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News & Views... remember this one?
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"Confusing New Year time change in Bangladesh"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8436186.stm
The BBC has to be one of the most ill-informed organisations in the world!
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The idea of daylight saving - as practised by dozens of countries around the world - is to move the clocks forward during the summer.

That way businesses can stay open when the evenings are lighter.
Errr... In UK at least, the idea of "daylight saving" was to maximise the daylihgt hours available to farmers in what was, only a few decades ago, an agricultural economy.

Late opening for shops in those days was, hey, maybe a daring 6.00pm!

And another thing...

Looks like that I am now so old that I notice when youngsters think that their experience is 100% of the world .
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Originally Posted by Nick-H View Post In UK at least, the idea of "daylight saving" was to maximise the daylihgt hours available to farmers in what was, only a few decades ago, an agricultural economy..
Which frankly was a pretty dumb idea in the first place. Changing the clocks does not mean that anyone gets even an extra second of daylight, the sun doesn't give a stuff what happens down here!

All it means that instead of just the farmers getting up an hour early, the whole nation gets up an hour early.

Someone wants to go into farming, that's fine by me, they can get up an hour early to take advantage of the early morning sun. Me, I'd prefer to still have some daylight left after I have finished my day's work, thank you very much!
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