Check out Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine

Check out Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine 

Awesome article on the shortfalls of education and the ignorance of the people!

South Thindies - A South Indian Experience

Guess your wondering what the heck im talkin about right!!?? Its a bit of a story this...

So I'm up at 3 AM Sunday morning getting ready to catch my crack of dawn flight to Bangalore. I reach there around 9:20 walk into the waiting area to catch up with mom n dad who've flown in around the same time.We get into one of these new shuttles (AC Bus) that takes us into the city ( trust me way better way to travel than those crammed cabs). So we get to where we're headed (post a long  though comfortable hour n half ride) thanks to the niceness of our bus driver who takes a short detour to drop us almost at the door!

South Thindis, past South End Circle Jayanagar Bangalore 

So we get there tired and hungry and find that we don't have anything to eat in the reception hall cause it was supposed to be a lunch affair no breakfast included. Well there we are thinking hey I was counting on some awesomelisious southindian breakfast and I dont even get capi (coffee)! But hope was not lost after all, here jumps in my kid cousin(not so much of a kid nemore) who offers to take us over to an awesome place to have breakfast. So we head out skeptical as we drive about a km to a crowded looking shopfront we get off the car wondering "what the heck is this place". And thus thinking we walk into a cacophonous atmosphere of spoons clanking on plates, big pots of sambar being stirred, people yapping away in the morning rush and the crowd the unbelivable crowd of people waiting for the cupons, waiting for the food, standing in front of shelf like tables  around walls and in the middle like a sort of island for all us lost and hunrgy souls. So we go in and order the must haves as far as any South Indian restaurant goes Idli wada sambar. I had to wait a couple of mins to get the cupon( Rs. 27 a plate) for this and finally get to the counter where i could be served deliverance from the hunger pangs.

Boy did they deliver! It was some of the tastiest nicest Idly Wada sambar I have every had. The fact that I found it in that crowded place was no surprise i mean the food there is so good it has to be crowded! So we gobble down the food like a bunch of refugees from Somalia and promptly head to the counter where there's a guy with an array of cutting (small tea) glasses in front of him, so this guy has this thing(making coffee) down to a precise art. He stacks up the glasses in rows and columns and then procceds to pour the dark magic portion we mortals love adore and live on "Coffee Decoction", then he takes a huge mug of milk and pours them the same way Bartenders tend to pour Tequila into a line of shot glasses! So I get 3 of these for me and my parents and we sip on some seriously awesome coffee. Refreshed and happy we head back to a long day of catching up with relatives we haven't seen in decades and hob nobbing with people who have come from different parts of India and the world to celebrate the communion of my cousin and his beautiful bride and to bless them a happy married life.

Transformers 3 : Dark Side of the Moon

Well for the uninitiated this is the 3rd installment in the SiFi franchise Transformers an epic cartoon from the mid 1980s now pretty much covers it all cartoons, comic books, video games, movies and more! In their latest edition to the ever expanding franchise we see an amalgamation of an old memory of mans first steps on the moon with an advanced alien race of self modifying (transforming) Robotic beings called the Transformers. The plot being the age old battle between good and evil or in this case the Autobots vs the Decepticons respectively and oh did i forget to mention puny Humans.

Oh yeah! They are a big part of the whole drama too especially these nosy Americans who cant seem to get enough of picking fights around the world they have to go medieval with a bunch of super advanced mechanically convertible robots who can blow the world to smithereens if they so choose! But then as the director/writer would have it alls well at the end of the day and the humans rise the supreme though a puny and backward race, but that doesn't stop them from causing mayhem on an unprecedented scale.

Well here's looking forward to some never seen before action and technical advances catch this movie at the theater near you today!