Tag Archives: Humor

The ODF Campaign

By Ananda | Published: February 13, 2010
Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about poop in my “community”. Amy had given me a book to read called “The Big Necessity” and I found it really interesting and applicable to what the students at the Tata-Dhan Academy have been studying. I, in turn, lent the book to one of my colleagues, who [...]
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DAMN It!

By Ananda Mahto | Published: June 20, 2008
I was just having some fun at work a couple of weeks ago, trying to put some positive and creative pressure on a co-worker, so I created this fake center to compete with the center she is heading (the Advanced Centre for Enabling Disaster Risk Reduction [at the Tata-Dhan Academy where I work]). The result? [...]
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“Self portraits” aka “The end of an era”

By Ananda Mahto | Published: March 29, 2008
It’s the end of an era, I guess. My trademark is no more. I’m serious. It’s gone. My built-in cat-toy… my man-leash…—whatever you want to call that strange braided patch of long hair that I have had for what? Fifteen years?—met its fate with a pair of scissors on Sunday, March 23, 2008. Seeing that [...]
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The Birth of Mithun

By Ananda Mahto | Published: September 18, 2007
There are times when India really makes me laugh…. … I mean, other than things like watching Bollywood videos where it seems like people are always going through weird mating rituals replete with bright costumes, head bobbing, and peculiar synchronized dancing…. … or like the time that a student asked me to download a song [...]
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