Archive for the 'India' Category

SMS your favourite guru for blessings/advice

Tue May 10 2005

Sadhana TV in India is offering the wisdom of a panel of 40 gurus by SMS text messaging. Viewers can send a question to their favorite Sadhana TV guru and receive their answer—all by text messaging over their mobile phone. Managing Director Rakesh Gupta says they’re already getting over 20,000 messages a day.

That averages out […]

Happy Diwali

Fri Nov 12 2004

Diwali is a five day Hindu festival which occurs on the fifteenth day of Kartika. During this time, homes are thoroughly cleaned and windows are opened to welcome Laksmi, goddess of wealth. Candles and lamps are lit as a greeting to Laksmi. Gifts are exchanged and festive meals are prepared during Diwali. Diwali, being the […]

Hinglish

Sun Oct 17 2004

Hindi + English = Hinglish
‘Hinglish’ - a mixture of Hindi and English widely spoken in India. A British language expert predicts that “Hinglish,” or Indian English, will overtake standard English as the most common spoken form of the language globally. The main cause of increased Hinglish is due to Bollywood movies, and most of peoples […]

Veer-Zaara

Mon Sep 20 2004

Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar sung 9 songs at the age of 75, in Yash Chopra’s new film “Veer-Zaara“, a love story between an Indian pilot and a Pakistani girl. Lyrics by Javed Akhtar have been set to the tunes composed by the late Madan Mohan 30 years ago. I agree with IndiaFM.com that The music of […]