I am going to keep this simple and to the point (atleast that is how I will attempt to mask my total lack of creativity and extreme laziness). Let me warn you that the posts are going to be accompanied by snide comments that might or might not be related to the post (I thought they were my specialty) and multiple cheap shots at a certain libertarian organization, I call the “cartel”. Dive in and enjoy!
Gopi Sundaram thinks that this practice can be “creepy”, but proceeds to defend it anyways.
Saket has had it with the pervasiveness of this certain event in his everyday life. Please don’t mention the “t-word” to him.
Praveen had a “eureka moment” (yes, really!) when he came with the alternative to Valentine’s Day!
MadMan doesn’t want to have a Happy Valentine’s Day…oops, for got that wasn’t a nomination. Scratch that!
More Valentine’s Day hate from zigzackly - is it any wonder that all these anti-Valentine posts are by GUYS? (I am not that much of a Valentine’s person myself, so I have a hard time mustering up too much righteous indignation over these guys - I should let it go!)
Getting back to desi business, JK looks at a roll-call of Muslim achievers in India by our favorite whipping boy and wonders if there is someone missing on the list. JK also takes on language politics - who is loving and who is hating that language, English.
Avinash tries to wed Darwinism to Creationism when he claims to play God doing a science experiment.
Nirvana attempts at ethical hacking and is not too satisfied with the results on Indian sites. He also thinks he is a libertarian because he is the devil or vice versa or something. (The cartel and the wannabes are beginning to freak me out a little :0) Nirvana also needs a girlfiend (wait, I thought that was a requirement to be libertarian…)
Patrix examines free speech issues in America, land of the First Amerndment.
Nandita has a moving ode to her Aai, her grandmother.
Venky turns his sights Westward and examines a couple of events involving Verizon, MCI and HP.
Amit Varma has a story involving a couple, a rose, a few men and lots of sticks. He also explains how Lalu keeps his power. He also reviews the movie, Amu. Are parents responsible for their kids? Amit tries to find out. Yeah, and in his free time he tries to also eradicate poverty, hunger and bring world peace. (Is there anything this guy cannot do?)
Gaurav tries his hand at reading my mind when he hands out the Most Irritating People Awards. I hear you, Gaurav!
Ramanand believes Indians are incapable of mastering data structures…only certain ones…
Jabberwock reviews (comments on) Amitav Ghosh’s Hungry Tide.
Nitin Pai sees India conceding inch by inch to a certain unfriendly neighbor and wonders about precedent. I thought that conceding and pretending maganimity was the story of our 50-odd-year existence.
Ravages wants to be proud of himself damnit, and unabashedly so! I thought that was what the cartel was for - patting each other’s backs (Ok, so maybe 10 cheap shots at the cartel in one single Mela are not really called for, it might be a record though!).
Pradeep (did I mention he was in the Cartel?) argues for a meritocratic democracy…are we still talking India here?
Anand Vasu tries to understand the arbitrary thin line between chucking and not chucking.
As a mom, I protest the name baby pictures on a post about Paapi Gudiya. Don’t you guys know anything that has “baby” attached to it has a magnetic pull over us moms? We cannot help it, you know!
Hurree Babu has a fun take on Shobhaa De - yeah, you remember her!
Nilu lands in the Reagan domestic airport and finds himself, um, his baggage lost in space-time discontinuity.
Neelakantan (or as I call him, not Nilu) thinks remixes are like potatoes - I personally feel they are more like Chinese food - great to look at, but not very filling.
Nirvana thinks that if you watched Aviator, you need euthanasia.
Check here if you want to participate in next week’s Blog Mela…
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I think the two Nilakantans are different. That fact could have been easily gleaned from the fact that the second one hasn’t called for anyone to be annihilated.
Anyway, that was a great Mela. Lots of new non-cartel bloggers.
Posted by: Ravikiran at February 20, 2005 12:55 PM
Oops, thanks for catching that - I will fix it right away.
Posted by: Shanti at February 20, 2005 1:08 PM
Um, it’s Varma, not Verma. Good mela, Shanti.
Maybe Nilakantan and Nilu got lost in a mela, and met again…
Posted by: amit varma at February 20, 2005 1:24 PM
Oops, corrected again :)
Lost in Kumbh and found in Blog Mela? :)
Posted by: Shanti at February 20, 2005 2:30 PM
along with the luggage, hopefully
Posted by: avinash at February 20, 2005 2:47 PM
LOL, Avinash - that might require a mighty big space-time discontinuity indeed! :)
Posted by: Shanti at February 20, 2005 3:02 PM
what we need are eddies.
:) and that reminds me of HGTTG
“Eddies,” said Ford, “in the space-time continuum.” “Ah,” nodded Arthur, “is he? Is he?”
Posted by: avinash at February 20, 2005 3:37 PM
Pradeep (did I mention he was in the Cartel?)
He’s not.
And my “noooo” was supposed to mean, “I did not have a happy Valentine’s Day” (I cooked for hordes of hungry couples instead)
And Shanti, you are one against many if you take on the Cartel. You really like those odds? :p
Posted by: MadMan at February 20, 2005 5:03 PM
We also emphatically distance ourselves from this person. He has not the slightest clue what a “libertarian” means. He’s just got a drinking problem. :)
Posted by: MadMan at February 20, 2005 5:06 PM
Hi Shanti,
Thanks for including my nomination.
Amit, I loved your Lalu Yadav post. Could not help noticing, a sub-blog that you write called “India Uncut - The Tsunami Posts”
It was really nice of you to segregate all the offending Tsunami Content to a seperate blog so that the T*word-hating types could steer clear of it. You take freedom-of-choice for the blog-reader to a new level.
Saket
Posted by: Saket Vaidya at February 21, 2005 12:38 AM
Dude MadMan,
You ever tried libertarianism in real life?
You ever had a slightest feel of it, leaving apart some keyboard scribbles?
Your ever opposed state control and got busted?
You ever tried to hire a lawyer, when something so autocratic like DMCA was trying to peek your mailbox full of porn subscriptions?
Do you even know that there is something like DMCA in India!
You have a clue that Indian chapters of EFF do exist?
You ever went to Bhopal in a GreenPeace camp?
If yes, then you should know “libertarianism is dumb in a vague way, because it still remains a propaganda, a blind following”
If no, go on with your blogging.
Do you think, libertarian is freedom? Try it once dude, for real. Be in the crowd, smell the air there, it is a twisted propaganda.
I know, I shouldn’t have nominated this blog. I was just curious.
Posted by: Nirvana at February 21, 2005 12:52 AM
Still suffering the effects of the bottle, eh Nirvana?
Posted by: MadMan at February 21, 2005 1:32 AM
Hahaha.. No. It’s a workaholic manic monday, which can be addictive too.;)
Posted by: nirvana at February 21, 2005 3:14 AM
Er, “hate?” Not zigzackly… Never mind. Blog traffic is not to be scorned at, i guess. Thank you for the nomination.
Posted by: Zz at February 21, 2005 8:08 AM
MadMan, I love misrepresenting the views of the cartel, so no corrections will be made :evil: I know I am outnumbered, but I am hoping the intrepid non-cartel junta will back me up in this noble endeavir…anybody?
Saket and Zz, you are welcome :)
Posted by: Shanti at February 21, 2005 8:56 AM
I know I am outnumbered
Quality not quantity and all that…
/I keed I keed
Posted by: seven_times_six at February 22, 2005 9:06 PM