Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Indian men make best husbands for Russian women

Among the foreigners, Indians make the best husbands for Russian women as they are "more open" and share an emotional relationship with family, says Russia’s leading feminist intellectual Maria Arbatova.

"In my view, out of all the foreigners, the Indian men are the best husbands for Russian women since they are brought up in a different way," famous Russian playwright and poetess Arbatova said.

"The western culture worships the superman and for an Indian male it is not a shame to cry. They are more emotional and have a more open and emotional relationship with the family," she said in an interview to Russian Agrarian Gazeta.

Arbatova, a living symbol of feminist movement of post-Communist Russia, had married twice and is presently living with an Indian. Recently she has published a book The Taste of India.

She became a household name in 1990s in Russia with her feminist TV Programme 'I Can Do It Myself'. Since 1996, she heads the club of 'Women Meddling in Politics' to seek a greater role for the Russian women in the country's politics.

She had also won many international prizes including Cambridge gold medal for her contribution to the 20th century culture.

Russian women can adjust better with an Indian husband and "moreover the Indian cinema has showed us that we have a lot in common", she said adding that no other nation except Indians is more like Russians in terms of character.

"They are as open, lazy and dreamy as we. Russia and India have a lot in common in the economic sphere. We were destroyed by socialism and India by colonialism," she said.

India's unique religious tolerance and believes that the future of the world lies with India, Arbatova says. "The world thinks that the future is with China but I am sure it lies with India.

"Fifty per cent of the English-speaking programmers live in Bangalore. Indians can integrate in the world better than the Chinese since they speak English," Arbatova said.

She added that in China the population is growing older whereas about 500 million in India are below the age of 25.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you

CHORUS:
So baby talk to me
Like lovers do
Walk with me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Like lovers do

Here comes the rain again
Raining in my head like a tragedy
Tearing me apart like a new emotion
Oooooh
I want to breathe in the open wind
I want to kiss like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you

CHORUS

So baby talk to me
Like lovers do

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
(Here it comes again, here it comes again)

I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you

Friday, October 06, 2006

Forbes ranks Top 10 video games for drivers

We may not be able to afford exotic cars in real life, but for decades gearheads the world over have embraced video games as a way to unleash their inner Schumacher. Jeremy Rosenberg at ForbesAutos.com (OK, Forbes isn't an obvious choice for a video game survey, but what the heck, at least some Forbes readers can actually afford to buy these cars...) has examined the historical spectrum of driving games, ranging from arcade classics to the current state of the art, and come up with an all-time Top Ten list:

1. Gran Turismo 4
2. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
3. OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
4. Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed
5. Spy Hunter
6. Project Gotham Racing 3
7. Sega GT 2002
8. Test Drive Unlimited
9. Pole Position
10. The Fast and the Furious
Gorillaz - Dare

It's coming up
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's DARE

It's DARE

You've got to press it on you
You just, think it,
That's what you do, baby
Hold it down, DARE

Jump with them all and move it
Jump back and forth
and feel like you were there yourself work it out

Never did no harm
Never did no harm

It's DARE
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's DARE

It's DARE

You've got to press it on you
You just, think it,That's what you do, baby
Hold it down, DARE

Jump with them all and move it
Jump back and forth
and feel like you were there yourself work it out

Never did no harm
Never did no harm

It's DARE
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's DARE

Never did no harm
Never did no harm

It's DARE
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's coming up
It's DARE

You've got to press it on you
You just, think it, that's what you do
baby
Hold it down, DARE

Jump with the moon and move it
Jump back and forth
It feels like you would let yourself work it out

You've got to press it on you
You just, think it,
That's what you do, baby
Hold it down, DARE

Jump with them all and move it
Jump back and forth
and feel like you were there yourself
work it out

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Debrett's Limited

Debrett's Correct Form is the authoritative guide to proper forms of address across the various ranks of British society, covering a spectrum of people from peers to the Prime Minister.

The British system of titles and forms of address is notoriously complex and a minefield for the uninitiated. This book explains the complexities of the system clearly and succinctly, offering advice to cover a multitude of situations, including formal and informal correspondence, invitations and verbal forms of address, and on matters such as precedence.