Bangalore Sweatbox

According to this Bangalore Metroblog posting, a military hotel is a restaurant that serves "non-vegetarian food in local style." 

This post blew my mind: on a visit to a certain ward of the city, the mayor of Bangalore gave away:

* 60 driving licences
* 60 sewing machines
* 219 embroidery stipend
* sports material
* 100 saplings, and
* 26 medical cheques of Rs 5,000 each.

It brings to mind nothing so much as a Mexican drug lord visiting his village of birth to give away soccer balls, bottles of tequilla and rosaries. So that's what politics in India is really like! 

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