Country liquor gets Indian crops high

Jejuri farmers use a mix of country liquor + pesticides to rejuvenate crops with big success, shocking scholars.

There’s been a bottle-breaking scientific discovery in a sleepy little village near Pune. 
And there’s no fancy scientist or big pharmaceutical company behind it.

http://www.punemirror.in/index.aspx?page=article&sectid=2&contentid=201002262010022601244501d2da6417&sectxslt=

 * Idiots’ special!

*  Perfect Harmony or Stark Contrast? 
a modern equipment dwells peacefully with a 300-year-old stone wall
( picture courtesy - self)

* Family Court

One would be in less danger

From the wiles of the stranger

If one's own kin and kith

Were more fun to be with 

........ Ogden Nash
        - American humourist (1902-71) known for his light verse,  A Harvard dropout

What a timeless theme

Ogden ...... I just  luv'im

* Getting Rid of Bad Teachers

                                                      ... NYT : perfect visual for the headline

* "Murder mystery solved, but victim not yet identified"  (huh?)
                                        -  Police...Times Of India headline today.  Promise, I am not making this up.

* Scones At Shanti Path

For western diplomats, the India ‘hardship’ posting is a Raj-era event.

 

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?264314),

* Online classical lessons have restored the guru-shishya harmony across continents...

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?264326 

* " कलियोंकी तरहा मुसकाये थे हम, फूलोंकी तरहा मुरझायें हैं "
किती सुंदर, समर्पक उपमा!

मूड अगदी छान आहे; मात्र  ही ओळ २/३ दिवस  डोक्यात सतत गुणगुणतेय.

* "Where else in the world but Calcutta would you find an ‘Oscar Wilde Kindergarten School’ ?
I kid you not; it’s on Sarat Bose Road!"

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?264126

 

www.outlookindia.com | Calcutta Diary

* Roger Federer in Ethiopia - a beautiful human interest story; no sports statistics

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61C00320100213?type=sportsNews?feedType=RSS&feedName=sportsNews

* Negetive numbers, positive attitude
http://blog.themathmom.com/2009/05/negative-numbers-and-positive-attitude.html

* " तुळजा भवानीला अर्पण केलेल्या साड्यांची चोरी"
  महाद्वाराच्या बाजूच्या केंद्रातून सव्वादोन लाख रुपये किमतीच्या साडया (७८ शालू  + २२ सिल्क) रात्रीतून कुलूप तोडून चोरट्याननी पळविल्या.
पोलिसांनी  दोघांना अटक केली आहे.... दै. सकाळ, १८ फेब्रुअरी '१०

१. मातेला स्वतःच्या मंदिरात चोरी होणार हा  दृष्टांत  आधी तर  झाला  नाहीच; पण प्रत्यक्ष  घडतांनादेखिल  समजले  नाही. 
अथवा समजून टाळता आले नाही.
सामान्य, मर्त्य पोलिसांची मदत लागली.
२. भरजरी शालू अन  सिल्कच्या साड्या ? 

* मराठी
http://amrutmanthan.wordpress.com/...

* "A problem unto himself, the Indian abroad is an immodest ambassador of goodwill"

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMTAvMDIvMjAjQXIwMTYwMA==&title=Not

* An article on Pune

'Poo-nah became Pu-nay.
Along the way, the hobbling pensioner town turned into a dancing, trancing, blond sanyasin, and then a preening IT girl.'

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/erratica/entry/pune-on-my-mind

*  First entry

The list of adjectives describing contents extends to fascinating, scintillating, titillating, scandalizing, introverting (yes, this verb form does exist in an on-line dictionary) ...

Negative adjectives positively avoided : disturbing, depressing, demoralizing,frustrating ...