Not from the Onion: Warrant for education minister who cheated in exams

Real life is hilarious enough that we don't even have to be creative to invent jokes in order to laugh.

Today's installment (and here Rick Perry can rest easy) comes from India--that other wishing well, which keeps on giving :)

Puducherry Education Minister P.M.L Kalyanasundaram, who is absconding after the Tamil Nadu police registered a case against him for alleged impersonation, was on Saturday dropped from the Cabinet.

Around 4 p.m Chief Minister N. Rangasamy wrote to Lieutenant Governor Iqbal Singh recommending that the Minister be dropped.

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The case was registered against Kalyanasundaram by the Villupuram police for allegedly using a proxy to write the Class X supplementary exam in a private school at Tindivanam.

Four police teams are trying to trace his whereabouts.

Laughter aside, the sad thing is this: governments all across the world are made of people like this guy or Palin or Berlusconi or, well, name your pick.

The corporate world is not any better. Hey, if only there was a guy who was awful in the corporate world and in the political world--well, other than Berlusconi :)  Take it away, Jon Stewart:

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The bottom-line: we are screwed!

‘Life of Pi' as a movie

Ang Lee is the director for the movie version, in 3D?, of the Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi.  As in the novel, Pondicherry features a lot in the movie.  (Now the city is known as Puducherry)

The movie was shot in several places across the town including the Botanical gardens, Holy Rosary Church, Petit Seminaire and Calve College schools and several canals.

Mr. Lee said that almost one-third of the screen time will be occupied by shots from Puducherry.

Of course, life in Pondicherry is changing a lot, and not always for the better--like this one.

The last time I was in Pondi was way back in 1982 (?) I was there with Srikumar, who is now in the Czech Republic, and Kannan, who is now in Michigan.  What a journey in life over the 30 years!

An environmental crisis in Pondicherry

Akash Kapur has a touching narrative on the crisis in Pondicherry. Pondi, as it is almost always shortened to, at least when during the years when I was growing up in nearby Neyveli. Now, officially, it is Puducherry. I wonder if people still refer to it as Pondi.

The Disappearing Beach from Granta magazine on Vimeo.