More Reasons To Love Biman

After my incredible experience of flying with Biman Bangladesh Airlines, I was non too surprised to read this morning that this wonderful and professional airline has infact been banned by the EU Commission due to safety regulations.


If you're interested in that sort of thing you can get a full list of the banned airlines here (and Nacho probably is...)

I can verify the airport image used in this post is false and has undergone some manipulation, as no evidence of this service was seen at any stage on my trip, however, I can not verify the authenticity of the following images...

Souvenir With A Difference

Thinking of buying presents for people at home? Why not bring home a souvenir with a difference? (no, not a broken nose)
Now you can BUY an Indian village (and a Punjab one at that too!)...
But seriously, I think this story just highlights the ups and downs and contradictions that characterise the India we've all experienced.

And on a related story (can I help it if my paper is full of Indian stories today?!) Tiffins are now big news...apparently! I just feel ripped off the woman in the story is paying 300 Rs only for hers...

Getting Ready for The Oscars 2007

Hey, my (boy) friend Jimi Mistry just send me this update -not long now til we all appear on the big screen!



For the new trainees – this is a film that was partly filmed in Patiala in September (ish?) last year...all the trainees that were around took part as extras!

Nice Lunch...

Today during lunch i went to Club Cuisine here in 17 for my usual "Paneer Tikka Something"...everything was perfect except for two Indians (I saw a lot of them today actually)
While i was eating my nice food, i saw them with an old man who apparently was some kind of servant or slave...i say slave because his "owners" talked to him and treated him like he was some inferior creature, also they ordered food and said to him to sit away from their table...because obviously he was too inferior to share a table with two "Normal" Indians...

I wasn't upset because this guy sat with me instead of his owners...i was upset with the couple, I didn't understand why people here still act like that...like we are in the middle ages, like the rest of the people don't deserve a space in this world...

I looked at the couple trying to get their attention and say something but it was impossible, because also i think i was invisible for them...

I know this is not something that will keep me awake during the night and also is not my bloody country but i think (personal opinion) if in this place people don't show respect between themselves just because they don't belong to the same class or whatever...our nice and exotic Incredible India will stay in "century 1 st" forever...being the incredible India that all of us know...

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!

Today is St. Patrick's Day - The Patron Saint of Ireland and a cause to celebrate everything green and Irish!