Posts Tagged with "In the News"

Help Victims of Agent Orange

Saturday, June 16, 2007

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It’s an hour later and I’m still bawling over a piece that I saw on BBC News regarding the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. A situation this grave is enough to make an inactive person like me want to do something to help. While I may consider a letter-writing campaign at some point, I’m moved right [...]

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Evacuation Plan

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

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Earthquakes. Forest fires. New Orleans. Iraq. So many natural and man-made disasters are in the news lately that I keep hearing about “evacuation plans.” As serious as such things may be, I couldn’t help thinking about using the phrase in a humorous way on a baby onesie. Click on the photo above to see the [...]

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Death of a Hobra

Thursday, August 18, 2005

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The first thing I thought of when reading this front-page story in the Times of India today was, “Couldn’t they have let the poor thing live somewhere in the country?” As I’ve said before, animal rights have a long way to go in this country. Full text of the “hobra,” an animal oddity similar to a [...]

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Press Conference

Tuesday, July 5, 2005

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If there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I’m a sucker for anthropomorphic humor. That kind of stuff is easy to find in the New Yorker, and luckily the mag in online. I’m a little late posting this, but I only read this article over the long weekend, as I was tucking into [...]

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JP II

Sunday, April 3, 2005

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I don’t think I was the only non-Catholic to shed a tear this morning when I heard the news that John Paul II had died. I definitely didn’t agree with many of the stands that the Catholic church had taken over the last few years – though I did appreciate its stand against the death [...]

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tsunamihelp.blogspot.com

Tuesday, December 28, 2004

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My friend Rohit and some others have set up a blog to help consolidate information on the earthquake, tsunamis, and resulting relief efforts. Great great idea. I hope to put in a little time on the blog providing links to aid organizations and the like in the next few days. Though, if you check out [...]

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The Lousy Week That Was

Friday, November 5, 2004

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This was my reaction to the sad, sad re-election of W. (So, it’s not spelled just so, but you get it, right?) By the way, this shot is from Bombay’s Hanging Gardens, one of the few, grassy tranquil places in the city. More on these later when I get over my depression hangover…

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Hey Undecided Voter!

Monday, November 1, 2004

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Come on…don’t embarrass me over here. I know I’m preaching to the choir, but just thought I’d throw out this little nugget in case you missed it: “The Bushies’ campaign pitch follows their usual backward logic: Because we have failed to make you safe, you should re-elect us to make you safer. Because we haven’t caught [...]

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India’s “Robin Hood” Dead at 52

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

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The huge news over here today is the demise of Veerappan, one of India’s most-wanted bandits. His stock-in-trade was endangered animal byproducts and sandalwood. (Only in India would someone make a name for himself smuggling sandalwood–does anyone born after 1960 actually like the smell of that stuff?) And, though he murdered dozens of people over [...]

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A New Strategy to Win the Swing States

Thursday, October 7, 2004

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Maybe Kerry or Bush could learn a few things from the Gandhis. Humility and pacifism, sure. (And wouldn’t you pay money to see either of them in full lotus position?) But I’m just curious about how Rahul Gandhi, son of Sonia, is going about campaigning for his mother’s Congress party in India. Today, according to Mid-Day, [...]

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