DesiPundit

Apologies for not posting the popular weekly links in the last fortnight. Our guest contributors are sharing some wonderful stuff. Judging by the votes on posts and clicks on the links, stuff that they are sharing with us all is proving to be quite popular. Here are the top ten links for the previous three weeks:

Wedding invitations have long resisted change. Nikhil takes a look at various features on wedding cards and wonders why we can’t get them sponsored by corporate partners [posted by JK].

IPL cheerleaders added to the tamasha mix in the currently ongoing Twenty20 tournament. Peter Foster, an ex-resident Delhiite and correspondent for The Telegraph makes the daughter argument in opposing this added feature [posted by Patrix].

A twelve-year-old blogger narrates a story about a young girl’s first experience with confronting uncomfortable truth [posted by Ideasmith].

Never assume that you know enough about Malayalis as MKT tells us that there is more to them than organizing a strike for incessant rains[posted by JK].

As summer approaches, another horde of desis head to India. But contrary to popular opinion, Apoo finds his homebound bags to be relatively empty [posted by Ideasmith].

Mukesh Ambani’s $2billion home made news over the last week and once again, grumblings arose regarding such obscene display of wealth in a developing country. Atanu Dey responded to those arguments by citing the freedom of spending one’s own hard-earned money [posted by Patrix].

Resistance to using SMS-ese or IM lingo notwithstanding, use of abbreviations in IM conversations can often result in weird and strange typos leading to much hilarity [posted by Patrix].

Others deciding what we should or should not wear is nothing new and we aren’t even talking about cheerleaders. Maami writes on the recent controversies about clothes worn by actresses at public functions down south [posted by Ash].

Kill Bill was a popular movie for a reason. Jammy looks back at the hazaar revenge plots hatched during his childhood [posted by Karthik].

Shrinidhi shares the delicacy of roadside foods from parts of South India [posted by Jennifer].