Mumbai Versus Delhi
By Ritika at 7 May, 2009, 10:51 pm
The Mumbai Indians and Delhi Daredevils will meet for their IPL match today. While the fate of this match is yet unknown and odds are in favour of Delhi, there is another front on which Delhi has already beaten Mumbai and that too with a shamefully big margin. The front I am talking about is the voting percentage of the 2 cities. While Mumbai set a target of just a measly 41% even after the huge hoophulla, Delhi managed to beat the target by posting a cool 53%. This is supposedly Delhi’s highest voting percentage in the past 20 years and ahead of other Indian metros like Mumbai and Bangalore.
Read More >>We get the Government we deserve
By Ritika at 6 May, 2009, 3:42 am
Long protest marches for the 26/11 victims, diatribes on national television against politicians, awareness campaigns by celebrities and yet one of the lowest turnouts in city of Mumbai. I thought it would be just the opposite. But Mumbaikars have definitely sprung a surprise for everyone by churning a voter turnout of just 49%.
Read More >>Giving the finger to Indian democracy
By Aditya Mhatre at 4 May, 2009, 12:46 pm
This photo of Mumbai Police Personnel best describes what they felt about pathetic voter turn out (43%) in Mumbai or was it the 34 degree heat along with 88% humidity? This might be the only time, they might get away after giving the finger to media.
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Cow dung and urine enriched mangoes anyone?
By Aditya Mhatre at 1 May, 2009, 9:59 am
Indian alphanso mangoes might one of the best things that god gave the human kind but now I am not sure about these new “enriched” mangoes? This box of “high quality” mangoes was a gift from a family friend and he was particularly proud about the fact that the mangoes that been rippened after dipping [...]
Read More >>It’s time to take the blindfold off
By Ritika at 29 April, 2009, 11:43 pm
It’s been more than 5 months since the November 26th terrorist attack and justice is still not out to the sole captured terrorist Kasab. What seemed to be an open and shut case and the biggest crime in the country last year is still entangled in the Indian judiciary web. I fail to understand why [...]
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