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		<title>Protected: agastya movies</title>
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		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/48</link>
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		<title>Investigative Report: Association of PT Teachers PJ Rationalization Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered how almost everyone who went to high-school in India remembers cracking up over something a PE or S.U.P.W or Home ed or Drawing teacher supposedly said at class? Things like -&#8217;open the window, let the climate come in&#8217;, or &#8216; stand in a straight circle&#8217;  or &#8216;will the absentees please raise their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of being Suresh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a nation of Software engineers and a generation of Barista sipping BPO baby boomers transition from chilled beer to child bearing ,  these anxious about-to-be parents are leaving no stone unturned in their quest for that perfect name for their baby - one that is exotic sounding - preferably quasi-mythological and that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/39</link>
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		<title>Where is Shabana Azmi now??</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a news event of significance -be it a bomb, an accident, a protest, a bandh, a diplomatic exchange between India-Pak, and so on, in the discussion that follows on the internet, there is inevitably an idiot who chimes in to ask &#8220;Where are Shabana Azmi and her coterie of pseudo-secularists now?&#8221; Huh?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/34</link>
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		<title>BREAKING NEWS!!! Sonia Gandhi&#8217;s date with dosa and spilled water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At newindpress.com
Saturday August 5 2006 16:47 IST
IANS
NEW DELHI: It was Sonia Gandhi&#8217;s wish to have a dosa in Parliament&#8217;s Central Hall that sent two Congress MPs falling over each other to fetch the snack for the party president from the canteen. And when she accidentally spilled a glass of water, an MP got a chance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/33</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Reviewing Rediff Reviews&#8221; Series; Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In which rediff reviews are reviewed.

Review: Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya
Website: Rediff.com

Favorite quote from review: &#8220;Garish colour combinations dominate, hurting the eye.&#8221;
Review of Review: 
When a  rediff reviewer begins the review of a Salman Khan starrer with a meandering quotation from a Richard Bach paperback, you know that somewhere in the bowels of Rediff.com&#8217;s decrepit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Soviet Dingchak!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The desi dingchak has competition!
A group of renegade cossacks have launched a counterstrike to usurp the mantle of the uber-dingchak, a russian threat to our very own desi-dingchak? you better believe it, this gang of multi-colored jigna interlopers in reflective clothing, abetted by a wily vulcan in a shiny blue satin suit (you have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/31</link>
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		<title>Random Desi Blog Title Generator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since every third desi blog title is either a &#8220;confused writings of.. &#8220;,  a &#8220;random scribblings from..&#8221;, a &#8220;mad thoughts of.. &#8221; or a permutation of other such similar apologist disclaimers, aimed towards pre-empting readers from commenting on how shallow and lame the posts really are, to save time, Dingchak.net has a cool new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/29</link>
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		<title>Changes afoot at Shaadi.com?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The grapevine whispers that Shaadi.com -the hugely succesful matrimonials website is beta-testing a couple of new fields on its search form- to make it easier for telugu bachelors to find their brides. Dingchak has obtained a scanned homepage screenshot of this new search form-
(click thumbnail for https://beta.gult.saadi.com/search.html)

hmmm&#8230;..?
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		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/13</link>
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		<title>Black Metal in Mylapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A black metal festival in Mylapore?? Thats a fantastic idea bro, Muthu(Mordor ka Poojari) was the first to react.
Hiren (the CradleSnatcher) was all keyed up. I knew he&#8217;d been wanting a show of his own for a long time now. We would be headlining it of course, was all he wanted to know.
Ganesh(Count Caracass) was&#8217;nt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/10</link>
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		<title>On Visu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visu: A comic genius.
Ok, I was just kidding in the title. If you know donâ€™t know who Visu is, if you think Kamal Hassan in Ek Duje Ke Liye was cute, or if you think South Indians eat Dosa for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I donâ€™t think you will get very much out of this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/9</link>
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		<title>The North South Dialogue, or, â€œMujhko Chidiya khanaâ€</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think most people who have lived their lives in both south and north India would agree how little people know about the other side. I had classmates in school growing up in Madras who thought anybody from up-north of north Madras was a Sardarji, and I had classmates at college (in engineering school up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/8</link>
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		<title>Man vs. Fruit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Man versus Fruit
The train is leaving the station. I lie down on my upper berth and fan myself with my Cine Blitz. Bipasha Basu moves towards and then away from me, with every flick of my wrist. Story of my life.
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Peanut shells on the floor, Milk Bikis packet wedged in the space between the seat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/7</link>
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		<title>Elevator Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A story I wrote, a while ago, on the theme of a space elevator.
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Elevator Music

The Spindle: Night
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How the stars mock us!
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Relax. You are going to trigger another buffer overflow! Slow down..There is work to do..
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But, .. Itâ€™s so unfair? Day after day, night after night&#8230; The arrogance! .. slaves yoked to their millstone.. nothing but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/6</link>
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		<title>Sublime-Samosa, RIP!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a resurrected blog. It&#8217;s previous avatar, sublime-samosa.blogspot.com, went down in a sea of fire, casualty of a historic flamewar with the minions of the RSS-Bollywood Complex.. yes you know who you are.. you may hate my guts, rail at my prose, and generally pee on my website, but the truth will jayate. every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dingchak.net/archives/5</link>
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