eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 10 2007 | news, india
Let this be a lesson to everyone here. Show up too inebriated for your own wedding and you bride may marry your brother!
Quoted: PATNA, India (Reuters) - Villagers at a wedding in eastern India decided the groom had arrived too drunk to get married, and so the bride married the groom's more sober brother instead, police said Monday.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 10 2007 | news, India
A group in India is printing a rupee notes of zero denomination in an attempt to curtail bribery. I doubt it will work very well but it's a cheeky idea.
Quoted: In the secret language of corruption in India, an official expecting a bribe will ask for Mahatma Gandhi to “smile” at him. The revered leader of the independence movement is on all denominations of rupee notes.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 02 2006 | computer, internet, India, Sugata MitraI had heard about this several year-old experiment but had never read anything about it. An Indian physicist in New Delhi set up a computer and a high-speed internet connection in a slum and just watched what happened. The kids of the neighborhood discovered it and proved some interesting things about their ability to learn very quickly...
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 08 2006 | Asia, India, Delhi, Disney, Disneyland
This new temple in Delhi, India takes a couple experiential pages out of Disneyland's playbook. Nifty...
Quoted: The new Swaminarayan Akshardham temple complex includes several features not commonly found in Hindu architecture, including an indoor boat ride, a large-format movie screen, a musical fountain and a hall of animatronic characters that may well remind us that, really, it's a small world after all.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 25 2006 | Arundhati Roy, India, Iraq, author, audio, video, transcript
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 07 2006 | technology, computers, India
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2005 | outsourcing, IndiaAn article from the September issue of Esquire Magazine where the author outsources many of his daily tasks to a couple women in India and then sees how far he can push things... Interesting.
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