
Chai Pani
blogs from New Delhi


Want to travel back in time? Enter your friendly neighbourhood Arya Samaj office in 2008. And get married in 2004. Simple! All you need is Rs. 4500 (bargaining required), some puja samagri, a few documents (can be forged for you at extra cost) and you can get an Arya Samaj marriage registered under...
Posted on 5 October 2008 | 9:05 pm
Read postThe official definition of the Poverty Line for India is in nutritional terms, which when quantified in Rupees comes to somewhere between Rs. 300-Rs. 600 per person per month. Both the state and central governments have floated many poverty alleviation programmes for the Below Poverty Line (BPL) fam...
Posted on 5 October 2008 | 7:42 pm
Read postWhen it comes to shooting at outdoor locations in Mumbai (or elsewhere) the cops have a fixed rate chart for bribes. Every production budget for an ad film or feature film includes the requisite "miscellaneous expenses" to cover this cost. The production guys on every unit know exactly how much to p...
Posted on 27 September 2008 | 10:58 am
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