October 2004

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A joke

This I must post, though normally I refrain from posting the email forwards. Pardon me non-mumbaite readers, if the joke doesnt make sense. Here we go.
4 Mumbaites – a Gujju, a Bhaiyya and a Bihari & Malayali died and were facing Yama. Yama asked them if they wanted some facilities & told Chitragupt [...]

A Hairy tale

All gods have long hair. Be it Greek, Indian or other gods. No, I havent met them all yet, but I am sure about this fact from the several photographs and paintings of them that I have seen. And why not, long hair does look divine. I dont like people cutting [...]

Physics Nobel Prize, 2004

This years Nobel Prize for physics have been won by 3 scientists who proposed the theory to describe the force that holds together quarks, the elementary particles with which nature constructs the neutrons and protons that make up the nuclei of atoms.

They fancifully described their force in terms of “colour”, saying that quarks could be [...]