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Another ridiculous article is published.
New Delhi: Urban Indians have one of the most exciting sex lives in the world and are also the most open lovers in the world when it comes to talking to partners about sex, says a new global survey.
Almost three-quarters (74 per cent) of Indians surveyed are comfortable with telling their partners what they like in bed way above the global average of 58 per cent and the UK with just 49 per cent, says the Durex ‘Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey’.
The survey further points out that two-third of Indians (68 per cent) think their love lives are exciting, a sharp contrast with 38 per cent for English lovers and 36 per cent for famed lovers in France. Moreover, 63 per cent of Indians say they have enough variety, compared with 47 per cent in the UK and just 9 per cent in Japan.
The Greeks (76 per cent) and Mexicans (80 per cent) are the only two countries to have a more exciting sex life than Indians. The survey covered more than 26,000 people online across 26 countries talking about every aspect of their sex lives.
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I can point out so many problems in the article and the survey, but I just highlight one.
The survey covered more than 26,000 people online across 26 countries talking about every aspect of their sex lives.
Given the cost of the internet service in India, only the upper class has access to the internet, and that upper class is very very small. Population in the class does not represent the whole country; there is a huge chasm between between this population and the rest. Furthermore, erotic materials and sexy underwear are virtually non-existent. Of course, the definition varies greatly from country to country, but ‘erotic’ and ’sexy’ in India are extremely conservative. Books on sex are scarce; there aren’t that many books sold to begin with. Literacy rate is quite low, so how can they possibly read anything …??? Sex products like vibrator and such are virtually impossible to get.
This article is a fine example of pathetic journalism in India …
India, Culture (India) | 25.09.2007 22:21 | No Comments
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The next day, after its Hindu-nationalist political opponents accused the government of blasphemy, H.R. Bharadwaj, the law minister, said the controversial parts of the affidavit would be withdrawn.
He added that India’s officially secular government would never doubt the existence of Lord Ram.
The culture ministry has since suspended a director and an assistant director at the Archaeological Survey of India, which prepared the affidavit, while it investigates what happened, Soni said.
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Well, here you go. Proof that Indians don’t understand the meaning of the word “secular”.
India, Culture (India), Politics (India) | 15.09.2007 12:21 | No Comments
After I spent eight months or so, I found out that there are basically four types of people in India. Cheaters, liars, thieves and scumbags. The world would be better off without India. George W. Bush was advised to attack India in order to make this world a better place, but he probably couldn’t remember names like Iraq, Iran and India, and I’m guessing that this is why he ordered to attack Iraq; he remembered that the first letter is “I” but couldn’t remember the rest. Too bad. Imagine he had a functioning brain. Imagine he actually ordered to drop a dozen or so nuclear bombs in India. The world would have been a so much better place than before. Very disappointing.
Anyway, since this didn’t happen, I’m thinking about becoming a lobbying now. And, of course, I will lobby Congress to clean up India. I don’t know if Heaven exists on earth or not. I don’t know if God exists or not. But I do know that Hell exists on earth and its name is India. There is no reason not to destroy this Hell …
Politics, India, Politics (India) | 11.08.2007 11:56 | No Comments
I had to make a comment about this.
Over the last two months, CNN-IBN has brought you 60 moments that we believe have defined India in the last 60 years. Now, with your help, we have chosen 10 of those moments and here’s the tenth: the beginning of economic liberalisation.
New Delhi: Once there was the planned economy, there were the five-year plans, government controls and the license permit raj.
But the socialist economy became a predator impoverishing masses of people, preventing the Indian from dreaming of a better life.
Economic reforms began in 1991. Then finance minister Manmohan Singh, slashed at the controls that burdened his countrymen.
Since then taxes have been lowered, public sector monopolies of industries has been broken, there’s been massive deregulation of industry, sectors like civil aviation have been opened to private players.
Import duties have been reduced, restrictions on import of technology have been cut - the result? An economy booming at eight and a half per cent growth.
Skylines are changing fast. There are malls, there are mobile phones, and there are new cars, new gadgets and a new class of newly rich Indians creating a lifestyle unseen in India.
Before the greatest dilemma: are the riches trickling down to the poorest? Some say yes, others say no.
Yet economic reforms have set free the Indian entrepreneur.
The world watched when Mittal acquired Arcelor and Tata acquired Corus. This was a defining moment in Indian history.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070811/211/6jbqq.html
So, what is this article? Is it discussing about anything? No, it doesn’t even explain what the trickle down economy is, never mind discussing about it. This is one of billion articles written by so called journalists in India. Journalism in India is so … pitiful. Articles they write are about nothing; they don’t discuss about anything. They don’t explain anything. They don’t even present accurate data often. Not that Journalisms in many of so called developed countries like US are great, but journalism in India is so pathetic.
India, Business (India), Politics (India) | 11.08.2007 5:46 | No Comments
I’m not surprised to read this news. There are only four types of people in India; cheats, liars, thieves and scumbags. See, the thing is that to cheat, to lie and to steal are all part of Indian people. They cannot deny their origin even if they move to U.S.
New York, July 27 (IANS) An Indian American convenience store owner has been arrested on charges of attempting to pay $60,000 to a US government official in bribe to secure a multiple entry visa for his business partner’s son.
Jiguveshkumar G. Patel was arrested Wednesday from his store in New Jersey and produced in court before being released on a $50,000 bond secured by property.
If convicted, Patel can get a jail sentence of 15 years and a fine of up to $250,000.
According to the complaint, Patel’s business partner’s son, who is an Indian citizen, was unable to obtain a visa to travel to the US, the Asbury Park Press newspaper reported.
Patel realised that the daughter of a patron worked for US Immigration. Patel approached the patron and offered to pay his daughter an initial sum of $20,000 and $40,000 later for a visa to get his associate’s son into the country.
Patel told an undercover agent, who posed as the patron’s daughter, that the partner’s son was specifically interested in a multiple visa.
A multiple entry visa allows the holder to depart and re-enter the US on several occasions without having to apply for a new visa each time.
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India, Culture (India) | 27.07.2007 1:34 | No Comments
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India is 2.47 million, less than half of previous official estimates, according to new U.N.-backed government estimates released on Friday.
India was thought to have the world’s biggest HIV-positive caseload with 5.7 million infections but the new estimate puts it below South Africa and Nigeria.
The new figure was calculated with the help of international agencies, including the United Nations and United States Agency for International Development.
“We have about 2.47 million estimated cases which is huge in terms of numbers,” Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss told a news conference. “In terms of human lives affected, the number is still large, in fact very large. This is very worrying for us.”
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http://in.news.yahoo.com/070706/137/6hrk9.html
This is not exactly a great news. This only tells us that there were no reliable methods to count HIV positives in India in the past.
India, Politics (India) | 6.07.2007 23:00 | No Comments
Cricket is a sport played mostly in commonwealth countries. Indians are just crazy about it. You ask anyone what is the national sport of India? Pet reply will be Cricket, which is wrong. Hockey is actually the national sport but people hardly watch it nowadays. Indian cricketers are treated like gods in India. Cricket has become so popular that it has almost eaten all other games and sports. Everyone wants to become a cricketer. And despite this India’s performance in the recently concluded world cup was most shameful. They were eliminated in the first round itself. It is not that there is any shortage of quality players . The problem is that there is so much money involved in it now and because of that the selection is not fair. Instead of choosing the best team, they do it to please the bosses of BCCI, which is one of the richest sports bodies in the entire world. A note on cricket in India cannot be complete unless we mention that when there is a cricket match involving India, it is like a national holiday.
R.S.
India, Culture (India) | 26.06.2007 9:24 | No Comments
At this stage, very few. In fact even among those who are interested, most may not even know who are in the race, when exactly the upcoming election is going to take place, etc. The number is bound to increase in the later stages of the election. Still, it is not going to be even one percent of the population. And most of this one percent will consist of those from four major metros.
This is not very surprising actually. This is not so because of any ill feeling towards the U.S. In fact, it will be same for almost all other countries, may be with sole exception of Pakistan. At present, the process of electing the new president of India is underway. But I am sure that the response of Indian people in this election is not great either. But interestingly, during the last two decades or so, people were much more keen and interested in U.S. presidents than ever before. And I understand that Clinton was the most popular U.S. president ever, when it comes to Indian people.
R.S.
Politics, India, Politics (India) | 26.06.2007 9:23 | No Comments
India prides itself as the biggest democracy in the world. Is it really? Not many of those overseas (i.e., in countries outside of India) are not aware of this, but almost all Prime Ministers since the country’s independence are from one family, the family of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. The only Prime Minister who is not from this family is the current Prime Minister, Dr. Sigh. But the reality is that a member of the family, Sonia Gandhi, is much more influential than Prime Minister Sigh; in other words, what India has is not a democracy but monarchy.
Sonia Gandhi. The Italian wife of late Prime Minister of India, Mr. Rajeev Gandhi. She unsuccessfully tried to become prime minister of India, more than a couple of times. At least once in a very open and shameless manner. But she could not. And this failure was advertised by the Congress Party as a very great sacrifice by her. Just think of it. Had she become the prime minister even for one day, wasn’t it like Italy’s turn to rule India?
Just think. She was out to prove that their was not even one capable person out of the huge 150 crore plus population of India. And when she failed in her mission, she made a puppet Prime Minister out of Mr, Manmohan Singh. Everyone knows that she is grooming her son Rahul Gandhi to become Prime Minister one day. This is probably only college of its type in this world, that grooms its students only for one post: the prime ministership. Its founder was the first prime minister of India, Mr. Jawahar lal Nehru. He groomed his daughter India Gandhi. She groomed her son Rajeev Gandhi. Then came an unsuccessful attempt by Sonia Gandhi. And now she is grooming her son Rahul Gandhi. She is giving tuitions to him on this subject. It looks like that only one family in India has got their Trade Mark/ Patent registered to run this business in the name of world’s biggest democracy. Great sacrifices.
R.S.
India, Politics (India) | 22.06.2007 13:06 | No Comments
I understand that Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru are highly regarded overseas (i.e., in countries outside of India); in particular, Mahatma Gandhi is almost seen as some kind of saint; he is seen as a faultless individual. However, as I was born and grew up in India and spent a fair amount of time studying their contributions, I feel that Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru’s respective roles in the freedom movement had been given much more importance than they actually deserved. They were much overrated as compared to some other leaders who were much more genuine and selfless but were much less tactful. I feel very strongly that their so-called ‘sacrifices’ were more a part of their tactful handling of their political careers. Freedom movement was just a ploy or an ideal opportunity they had to push their political careers and they encased it really well.
R.S.
India, Politics (India) | 22.06.2007 13:05 | No Comments