Animal Planet, about the Asian elephant:

These powerful creatures are used to uproot trees, to move huge logs ... they are as strong as an ox!

Bahut dinon baad dost mila
Man jaise ek phool khila
Haath milaya aur phir poocha
Kya sab kuch hai changa-bhala?

Is par dost gusse me aaya
Dekh meri taraf gurraya
LJ pe to sab post kiya hai
Dwapar yug se aaya hai kya?

Dus log comment bhi kar chuke
Tu LJ kyon nahin padhta be?
Kuch poochna ho to wahin pooch
Sar mat kha, chal bhaag yahaan se!

An interesting excerpt from "... Essays on Graduate Education" by David Merrill ( Read more... )

It has not been a happy season for the Arsenal fan. The only way the season could now be redeemed was through a thrashing of ManU in the FA cup final. 4-0 would have been great. Even 3-0 would have done ( Read more... )

The sign "Speed Breaker Ahead" is commonly translated into
Hindi as "Speed Breaker aage hai" (at least in Mumbai).
Shouldn't it be "Aage Speed Breaker hai"?

The former translation seems more appropriate when you are
expecting visitors to the speed breaker ("Taj Mahal aage hai"),
whereas the latter is the correct "there is" interpretation.

The 156 against Pakistan in the ongoing VB series prompts this post ( Read more... )

20 member squad ... 20+1 actually ... I Kan't drop Kahn!

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Iker Casillas/Victor Baia/(Oliver Kahn)

Paolo Maldini/Rio Ferdinand/Sol Campbell/Fabio Cannavaro/Ashley Cole/Paulo Ferreira/John Terry

David Beckham/Patrick Vieira/Claude Makelele/Zinedine Zidane/Roy Keane/Ronaldinho/Michael Ballack

( Read more... )