Seems those short cut Indians do have a sense of humour.
Posted by Jimmy. Our D G correspondent in Delhi
1) BREAKING NEWS: Suresh Kamadi just tried to hang himself in the CWG stadium. But the ceiling collapsed
2) The truth behind bulk sms banning is to stop kalmadi jokes and not Ayodhya
3) Look at the brighter side; the more countries pull out, the higher India is ranked in the final medal's tally.
4) Terrorists set to skip CWG 2010 citing unlivable conditions and fear for their safety.
5) Q: How many contractors are required to change a light bulb in Delhi CWG stadium? A: 1 Million. (1 to change bulb and rest 999,999 to hold the ceiling)
6) Whats common between CWG committee and students??? Ans: both start their preparations at the 11th hour.....
7) Prince Charles is actively convincing the Queen to visit dengue hit Delhi , this may be his last chance to become the king!
8) Thanks to Guernsey and Jersey for threatening to pull out of games! We now know these countries existed!
9) Ek waqt aisa aayega, kalmadi bhi sharmayega
10) A collapse a day keeps the athletes away
11) Ba ba Kalmadi, have you any shame. No sir, No sir, we are having a Common Loot Game. Crores for my partner, crores for the dame, crores for me too, for spoiling India 's name!
12) AMAZING BUT TRUE: If you re-arrange the letters "Sir U made lakhs" you get "SURESH KALMADI
13) Next edition of CWG will be called KWG, Kalmadi Wealth Games
14) Paying homage to the latest blockbuster "Munni badnaam hui" from "Dabangg",
15) "Sheila Dixit to Kalmadi: Delhi badnaam hui darling tere liye!". "Sadkein bhi jam hui, CWG tere liye".
16) "Suresh Kalmadi must be the first choice if ISRO goes for trial and error experiments for manned space mission,"
17) Muslim bodies have agreed to an out of court settlement and allowed the construction of the Ram temple provided its supervised by Suresh Kalmad
1) BREAKING NEWS: Suresh Kamadi just tried to hang himself in the CWG stadium. But the ceiling collapsed
2) The truth behind bulk sms banning is to stop kalmadi jokes and not Ayodhya
3) Look at the brighter side; the more countries pull out, the higher India is ranked in the final medal's tally.
4) Terrorists set to skip CWG 2010 citing unlivable conditions and fear for their safety.
5) Q: How many contractors are required to change a light bulb in Delhi CWG stadium? A: 1 Million. (1 to change bulb and rest 999,999 to hold the ceiling)
6) Whats common between CWG committee and students??? Ans: both start their preparations at the 11th hour.....
7) Prince Charles is actively convincing the Queen to visit dengue hit Delhi , this may be his last chance to become the king!
8) Thanks to Guernsey and Jersey for threatening to pull out of games! We now know these countries existed!
9) Ek waqt aisa aayega, kalmadi bhi sharmayega
10) A collapse a day keeps the athletes away
11) Ba ba Kalmadi, have you any shame. No sir, No sir, we are having a Common Loot Game. Crores for my partner, crores for the dame, crores for me too, for spoiling India 's name!
12) AMAZING BUT TRUE: If you re-arrange the letters "Sir U made lakhs" you get "SURESH KALMADI
13) Next edition of CWG will be called KWG, Kalmadi Wealth Games
14) Paying homage to the latest blockbuster "Munni badnaam hui" from "Dabangg",
15) "Sheila Dixit to Kalmadi: Delhi badnaam hui darling tere liye!". "Sadkein bhi jam hui, CWG tere liye".
16) "Suresh Kalmadi must be the first choice if ISRO goes for trial and error experiments for manned space mission,"
17) Muslim bodies have agreed to an out of court settlement and allowed the construction of the Ram temple provided its supervised by Suresh Kalmad
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the pretty and loving Bengali girl whose accent is a bit chee-chee; the rich Jewish family; their bored and beautiful daughter who expects to marry into the style she’s accustomed to;
Halliburton-esque military contractors sending astoundingly useless and outrageously expensive equipment to GIs in Iraq; the Republican smartie pants who play and win on Wall Street. And on and on and on.
Like John Galsworthy’s three-novel “Forsyte Saga”, it addresses timeworn themes such as duty versus desire and generational change.
So far so good. But then like an American-style “Tracts for the Times”, which led the 19th century English movement for the Protestant Reformation, Franzen’s “Freedom” veers crazily into environmental activism, population control and the excesses of conservative Republicanism.
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For more than 45 years, the Winston Churchill book industry has purred along smoothly, cosseted by western biographers in thrall of a man described as the most important statesman of the 20th century.
In a 2002 BBC poll, Winston Churchill was voted the "Greatest Briton of All Time", ahead of Shakespeare, Darwin and Newton.
Richard Toye's new biography, "Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and The World He Made" sets his life and politics in a modern context.
Previous biographers of Churchill such as William Manchester ("The Caged Lion") tip-toed around their subject.
The occasional attempt to uncover Churchill's racism, especially his contempt for Mahatma Gandhi, dissolved quickly into platitudes that justified Empire as a force for good.
This sophistry is the principal reason why this biography, so promising in precept, fails in practice. Churchill's dysfunctional family forged his attitude to race, imperialism and war.
His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, briefly Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, "actually loathed Winston", wrote Manchester.
His mother, a beautiful American named Jennie Jerome, "devoted most of her time to sexual intrigue, slipping between the sheets with handsome, powerful men in Britain, in the United States, and on the Continent.
A father who loathes you and a mother who embarrasses you (one of her lovers was the Prince of Wales) are not a recipe for a happy childhood and Winston's was not.
He went to Harrow, came last in class, flunked Oxford and Cambridge and was packed off to Sandhurst as a consolation prize.
Churchill's lack of a university education nagged him throughout his adult life and he acquired many affectations to disguise it.
India or the penal colony Australia
They were to serve him well in later years. Churchill inveigled the Prince of Wales to get him plum war reporting assignments.
By 1899, he was in South Africa, covering the Boer war. He was imprisoned, escaped heroically and became nationally famous at 24.
He was elected to parliament and, by 33, was a cabinet minister. It would take him, despite ambition and single-mindedness, another 32 years to become prime minister.
"The mere mention of India," he writes, "brought out a streak of unpleasantness or even irrationality in Churchill.
In March 1943, R A Butler, the education minister, visited him at Chequers. The prime minister 'launched into a most terrible attack on the 'baboos', saying that they were gross, dirty and corrupt.
He even declared that he wanted the British to leave India, and – this was a more serious remark – that he supported the principle of Pakistan.
When Butler argued that the Raj had always stood for Indian unity, Churchill replied, 'Well, if our poor troops have to be kept in a sweltering, syphilitic climate for the sake of your precious unity, I'd rather see them have a good civil war.' "
Britain's plunder of India is dispensed with equally briskly: "One factor that increased Churchill's resentment towards India was the issue of the sterling balances.
These were British debts chalked up in London in exchange for goods and services required for the war effort.
These grew, in total, from £1,299 million in December 1941 to £3,355 million in June 1945, of which around one-third was owed to India.
From one perspective, this was very good news for the UK. She was, in effect, extracting an enormous forced loan which she was unlikely to have to repay in the near future."
Globally, reviewers have called this biography "revisionist". It is not. It exposes Churchill's warts
but, often in the same paragraph, presents a contextual justification for them.
The concluding lines of Toye's book reveal where his sympathies lie: "The decline of Churchill's Empire, much as the man himself regretted it, can be seen in part as a tribute to the power of beliefs that he himself prized dearly."
(The writer is the biographer of Rajiv Gandhi)
Read more: Why Churchill had an aversion to India - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/book-mark/Why-Churchill-had-an-aversion-to-India/articleshow/6674438.cms#ixzz11xhE2R73