Aishwarya Rai, in an interview with CNN-IBN, says: He [Abhishek Bachchan] is the real ‘Padma Shri’ and I’m his ‘Padma Shrimati’ (giggles). Immensely cloying cuteness, but they’re a young couple, so fine, we can forgive them that. But if we are to take this line of...

This is quite the WTF headline of the week: Kerala housewives demand pay from govt Actually wait, on second thoughts, what’s so WTF about it? Why is this odder than any damn subsidy that the government of India gives? If the GoI can support failing businesses (for by definition only a failing ...

Reader Nikhil Apte writes in: Speaking of offensive symbols, did you know that the Nagaland People’s Front uses a cock as a symbol? Going by current logic, this should be offensive to all non-Naga people whose fronts do not have cocks as symbols. Also, the cock they use seems to be, well, a so...

Immense celebration happened on the day the Oscars were announced, for I’m a huge fan of AR Rahman and was overjoyed to see him win. And immense WTFness happens today, for Rahman says: This award legitimises our music and the aspirations of hundreds of other musicians. Legitimizes our music? A...

AP reports: The High Court in New Delhi is so behind in its work that it could take up to 466 years to clear the enormous backlog, the court’s chief justice said in a damning report that illustrates the decrepitude of India’s judicial system. The Delhi High Court races through each case ...

Sagarika Ghose, in her latest column, speaks out against The Pink Chaddi Campaign. “[S]ending pink underwear to perverts is pretty undignified,” she says, and argues that “[w]hile the ghastly cultural hoodlums must be dealt with sternly by the law, the lifestyle norms we choose, es...

There is a Facebook meme going around in which people have to write 25 random things about themselves, and then tag various other people. Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you with my list now. I can’t help but point you to Ol’ Bill Shakespeare’s list, though. (Yes, th...

Even Mahinder Watsa gets tired, it seems. In his Ask The Sexpert column, he was recently asked, “Where exactly should one insert his penis?” He began his answer thus: “Log on to Google and ask your questions.” Immense confusion awaits the poor soul who asked that question. Ea...

From Due Considerations , here’s John Updike on my favourite game: Poker is eminently human. Its strategy and parameters are based not merely on cards but on personalities, the tics and habits revealed over years of acquaintance. In my group, the Bad Loser growls and slams down his hand. The B...

These have to be the WTF opening lines of the day: Prince Siddhartha took sanyas to eventually become Lord Buddha when he confronted misery due to old age, sickness and death. Even as the Congress party plays down Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s cardiac bypass surgery on Saturday, his absence ...