The online matrimony business is booming in India with almost 90% growth predicted. Rashmi Bansal at Youth Curry points out to a few surprises in this online matrimony business.

We have been talking about ultra marathons here. Quizman says, his friend Rajeev Patel just ran a 100-mile marathon last weekend over 28 hours and lived to blog about it.

Harris describes Hannibal as ‘not really fitting into any psychological profile’ and also goes on to say that while at prison, he ‘attacked a nurse, tore out her eye, dislocated her jaw and ate her tongue; his pulse never went above 85 all the while’. What’s more, Hannibal has 6 fingers, maroon eyes that reflect light and small white teeth. He has an exceptional sense of hearing and smell, and tilts his head to one side when listening.

Ranjit Nair at Occupied Space describes some of the memorable villainous characters in books.

Rahul Razdan is shocked and embarrased when Maxim India delivered a free sample of their risque magazine to his elderly parents [hat tip: Amit A].

Just like women have the right to wear anything they please and behave in anyway which they think is appropriate and this blog has vigorously defended that right, men have the right to look, of course not touch, of course not pass remarks :lewd or otherwise. You cannot attempt to control my thought process. To indict someone on basis of ‘’feeling’’ is worse than those who demand that terrorists should be hung on mere suspicion, and of course I defend the right of even the most despicable terrorist to due process.

Confused takes a second look, pun unintended, at understanding sexual harassment.

Shoemoney, a recognized face in the SEO universe, has written five 5 simple tips to stop spammers from targeting your blog. His suggestions includes disabling comments on old blog posts as they are the most frequent targets of comment spam because of two reasons:

A) they show up in search engines
B) You wont see it. – since the post is old its unlikely that you would ever notice thus greater chance of sneaking it by you.

Depending on your Blogging platform, you can either manually disallow comments for posts after x amount of days or download a WP plugin that will automatically close off comments and trackbacks after 21 days.

The first half of the movie is light, meandering along with some snippets of everyday city life, of college students in Delhi, some banter and light heartedness as the story proceeds. It is more a gradual unfolding as Kaju slowly learns about her past, and about 1984 from a very naive perspective (like many other people, she didn’t know that it even happened), but gradually learns that she is intrinsically tied to the Sikh riots.

Sunil is at Seattle’s Independent South Asian Film Festival and enjoyed the screening of Shonali Bose’s Amu.

अडीच वर�षाच�या चिम�रड�या प�तणीला वरण-भाताचे चार घास भरवताना मेटाक�टीला आलेल�या अमोलचा हा अन�भव वाचताना त�म�ही पोट धर-धर�न हसणार यात काही शंकाच नाही!   [Hat-Tip: Bee]

मानाचà¥?या ऑसà¥?कर पà¥?रसà¥?कारासाठी सजà¥?जं à¤?ालेलà¥?या “रंग दे बसंती” आणि इतर देसी चितà¥?रपटांवर टिपà¥?पणी करतोय समीर. ‘शà¥?वास’ साठी लिहिलेला परिचà¥?छेद तà¥?मची वाहवा मिळवून जातो कि नाही पहाच!

चालà¥? वरà¥?ष हे हिंदी चितà¥?रपटसृषà¥?टीचà¥?या दृषà¥?टीने सà¥?गीचे ठरले आहे. अजà¥?न चितà¥?रपट वà¥?यवसायाचा पà¥?राण गणलà¥?या जाणा-या दिवाळी-ईद चा मà¥?हूरà¥?त तर उजाडायचाच आहे. साधारणपणे वरà¥?षाचà¥?या शेवटी येणारे चितà¥?रपट लोकांचà¥?या जासà¥?त लकà¥?षात राहतात आणि सगळà¥?या पà¥?रसà¥?कार सोहळà¥?यात बकà¥?षीस मारà¥?न नेतात असा आजवरचा अनà¥?भव असताना या वरà¥?षीचà¥?या पहिलà¥?या ‘सà¥?परहीट’ चा मान मिळवणा-या ‘रंग दे बसंती’ ने या नामांकनाचà¥?या शरà¥?यतीत ‘ओंकारा’, ‘कभी अलविदा ना कहना’, ‘लगे रहो मà¥?नà¥?नाभाई’ अशà¥?या ताजà¥?या चितà¥?रपटांना मागे टाकले हà¥?यातूनच या चितà¥?रपटातली ताकद दिसून येते!

Sameer writes about Desi movies nominated for Oscar. My personal favourite is his note on my favourite Marathi movie “Shwaas”. Read on…

தஙà¯?களà¯? வீடà¯?டà¯?கà¯?கà¯? வரà¯?கிற விரà¯?நà¯?தினரà¯?களà¯? எபà¯?படியெலà¯?லாமà¯? நடநà¯?தà¯?கொளà¯?ளலாமà¯? (கொளà¯?ளவேணà¯?டà¯?à®®à¯??)  எனà¯?à®±à¯? மதà¯?ரா பதிநà¯?தà¯?ளà¯?ளாரà¯?. போறவஙà¯?களெலà¯?லாமà¯? படிசà¯?சà¯?போடà¯?டà¯? போஙà¯?கலே…அபà¯?பà¯?றமà¯? போயிடà¯?டà¯? பொறவà¯? கொகà¯?கà¯? மாகà¯?கா à®®à¯?ழிசà¯?சீஙà¯?கனà¯?னா..பேசà¯?சே கிடையாதà¯?…வீசà¯?சà¯? தானà¯?…சொலà¯?றத சொலà¯?லிபà¯?பூடà¯?டேனà¯? ஆமா