India shines in Paris as Maratha Regiment leads Bastille march



Those troops you see in the photo are not French or British, they are Indian Army, Navy and Air Force columns. If I am not wrong this is the first time Indian military columns are marching in a function in a foreign country.

Obama's teleprompter breaks in mid-speech

When they meant "breaks down" they really meant it, it fell down and broke into a hundred pieces. After that poor Obama had to use only the one remaining Teleprompter and his notes.

You will note that Indian politicians never use Teleprompters, probably because it was never imported due to the harsh conditions of old. Which is why they require three minutes to read a sentence from a piece of paper which says "We are looking into the incident!" Looking at the paper seven times for those six words.

Also because of that we have their wonderful gaffes which they immediately deny thereafter;-)

Video shot on 9th July.

This is what Vibha writes on her LJ today:

Pregnancy is such a complex process. Physically and emotionally !

I'm glad God didn't trust it with men. They would have totally messed it up ;-)

It's original! Yeah googled the phrase and it doesn't exist yet.

Investigators blame turbulence for Steve Fossett's crash

Remember my post Balloonist missing! made on 6th Sep 2007? That was the Steve Fosset, his plane was found only a year later on 29 September 2008.

The wiki entry. This entry had this reference that said Search for Fossett turns up wrecks of 8 other small planes.

In fully loaded flight, AI stuffed in 3 extra persons

This was that flight to Mangalore whose door was damaged when the plane was moved before the aerobridge in Bombay. While investigating this they found that the flight had carried 3 extra passengers. Not bad huh! These are bona fide fair paying passengers.

Burger King apologises to Hindus for running offensive ad

Today's newspaper had mentioned that a US Indian Hindu body had protested the depiction of Goddess Laxmi by Burger King in their burger ads. Man what morons! Exactly what idiot felt that a Indian goddess on a burger ad in Spain will make them sell more of it!

So GMail is no longer Beta. Since yesterday. According to today's paper, and as per my today's GMail page.

This is regarding my post Custom job of a Tata Ace that I had made here in March. At that time I had thought it was a Tata Ace which had been modified as a passenger vehicle. As compared to the Magic that the best at Tata Motors could manage. What is the Magic? It is a Tata Ace with a soft top passenger body.

After seeing the photos we had made some investigations here, and it turned out that the body was built of a Magic which comes with a half body, half side door and half rear door. The rest is a frame work of pipes in which a tarp has been loosely fit. The builder is a local Mangalore garage, and the painter is local Mangalore auto works painter.

I saw the same car once again a few days ago, and so here we have the LH side view.