Never Before

Shopping season has descended on Hyderabad. In the ensuing hoopla there are some offers that you cannot refuse and others that you cannot understand. Here is a nominee for the second category.



Wonder how they manage to sell their stocks of decoupled footwear in the off-season without this offer. Mix & match perhaps?

Licker Is Not Allowed

On a trip out of town, we came across a restaurant's menu card which apparently excluded the most bizarre segment of the eating population - "lickers". On reading the restriction out aloud, I realized that this was not infact an Article 15 violation.

Article 15(2) of the Constitution of India:

"..No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them, be subject to any disability, liability, restriction or condition with regard to access to shops, public restaurants, hotels and places of public entertainment.."

Do You Trust?

The garment industry has to meet the customers' quality expectations and the expectations aren't always sky high in India if the price is right. That being the case, when it comes to underwear, the concept of seconds can still be dicey. None the less this peddler found brisk business on the footpath opposite the state secretariat in Hyderabad today.

In The Papers Today

True, a little late for covering the riveting Brazil-Netherlands quarterfinal decider. But this came out today in Deccan Chronicle's Hyderabad edition.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/tabloids/dutch-too-strong-samba-boys-543

Credit to Prudhvi for prodding me along and then forwarding it to the paper.