Bit of an own goal…
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Please take 20 seconds and read the brief text (below) about these so-called Spanish “equality stamps.” Someone really didn’t think this through, did they? …
What an insensitive storm in a linguistic tea-cup
So yesterday this happened: By way of explanation for all my non-Indian readers, many of the country’s nurses come from south India, particularly from Kerala, where their native language is …
So how is everyone doing?
Hello and I thought I’d just log in and check how everyone is doing. Since all you lovely folk are scattered around the globe, I know that some of you …
What’s the Hindi word for “shape-shifter”?
Thanks to the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Modi, I know the answer. The PM was recently talking about the virus mutating. “This virus is famous for changing itself through …
“I drink cow urine everyday, that’s why I do not have Covid-19”
Here is today’s unfiltered, unedited “forwarded as received” information, from one of the ruling party’s MPs, one Pragya Thakur: Tough if you were planning on drinking the urine of a …
“Covid has right to live too”
You know those WhatsApp forwards that are prefaced with “Forwarded as received”, as though that exonerates the sender from the veracity/toxicity/batshit-craziness of the contents? Well, I am taking a leaf …