The editorial page of Hindustan Times carries this revealing article on why the west might now be encouraging their people to “let it flow in the great outdoors”:

As suspected by some of us busy unclogging pipes here in India, these ‘naturalists’ with a twist want people to urinate in the open to save the world from — well, of course! — global warming. The more we take a piss in the privacy of our bathrooms, the more we end up flushing the lavatory, thereby ‘wasting’ water.

Well, someone should figure out soon on what we should be doing. Lest we have a globally warming smelly planet on our feet.

As much as I respect the Tata group (and consider myself lucky to have seen Mr. Ratan Tata in person way back when I was in school), I think they have gone a bit off the mark here.

Tata Sons has reportedly filed a suit against the popular travel community website OkTataByeBye.com. Infact, a panelist of the World Intellectual Property Organization has declared that the ownership of this domain should be handed over to the Tata group!
Clearly, the usage of the phrase “Tata” in the website is more in line with the colloquial goodbye that we all use. I really don’t think this infringes any copyrights or trademark of the Tata Group.

Please read the appeal put out by OkTataByeBye.com here:
http://www.oktatabyebye.com/support-us/Appeal.aspx

And add your comment there if you think this is a bit overboard.

Tata for now, ladies and gentlemen. I meant the goodbye one, of course.

You got to read this.

That was news worthy enough. But here is the icing:

However, Bharti later told a press conference that Rai was like her brother and she had a right to “love or hit him”.

And some more:

Rai, who was also present at the press conference, said Bharti was like his elder sister and she had the right to “beat him or love him”.

Read it all here. Fun eh?

A perfect example of ridiculous writing. ToI is probably the only piece of paper that can patronize, or rather afford to patronize, this particular writer.