Everyone must get a second chance in life. So good on this Hyderabad prison that is training their inmates in computer skills to eventually operate a call center in there.

Which is all good and all…till we read this one sentence in the story that made us go WTF??!!!

One of the inmates in training is RS Ratnababu, a 53-year-old former bank assistant manager sentenced to six years in jail for “misappropriation” of 30,000 rupees (£450). (Read full post at Guardian)

Read that sentence again. They’ve jailed a guy to six (gulp!) six years for embezzling 30,000 rupees? By that math how many years would Kalmadi or A. Raja or any of the rich folks with billions stashed and robbed get you think?

That’s what Sharad Sharma, a development cartoonist is doing in India. And he’s looking to raise $8000 to be mentored at the Unreasonable Institute to add his efforts to change in India.

Think comedy does not create discourse? We have two names for you if you need convincing: Jon Stewart and R.K. Laxman

World Comics India from Sharad Sharma on Vimeo.

The French do know how to live life now don’t they? Marie and Jean-Marc Sassolas are a French couple who got married in 09 and decided to spend their honeymoon going on a world tour on a bicycle.

We’ll live vicariously through them by reading their blog about their adventures.

As they say:

A lire les médias, le monde est dangereux, cruel.  Finalement, nous sommes des optimistes qui pensont que le monde est bien plus beau “en vrai”!

(Translation: To live an enchanted, see the world as it is and not as it is shown to us. To read the media, the world is dangerous and cruel. Finally, we are optimistic that that the world is more beautiful “for real”)

Hattip: Star Of Mysore

Marie & Jen-Marc's world tour on bicycle photo album

Let it not be said that Indians lack ingenuity and drama when it comes to marriage proposals.

GlobalPost has a really interesting article about young Romeos going the whole 9-yards and beyond on proposing – they’re showering petals from choppers and even fake kidnapping for that one little word ‘yes.’ All made possible by resourceful companies like MyGenie who are in the business of ‘imagination.’

(Read full post at Globalpost): From private yachts to personalized action movie sequences, more and more young lovers are popping the question with increasingly elaborate — often borderline outlandish — theatrics. One groom-to-be got a nightclub to stop the music long enough for him to propose to his girlfriend in front of a crowd that chanted on cue: “Say yes! Say yes!”

Enter the Mumbai company that offers to help its clients make their wildest wedding proposal dreams come true.

“We’re giving you what you dream,” said Bhabesh Mehta, the 28-year-old founder of MyGenie, which he describes as a personal occasion management company. “You tell me the weirdest thing; I can make it happen for you.”

Just for displaying extraordinary resourcefulness we hope and wish these young couples live happily ever after.

If I had a nickel for every time one of my friends or I wished to cook for a living I’d had enough money to buy my own damn restaurant and get going already.

Here’s an inspiring story of an entrepreneur who actually did – Shefalee Patel. The NY Times has a post on how Shefalee, a civil engineer who was laid off last year put her dreams into action and launched Sweet Silk out of a Kitchen-For-Rent building in New York.

It looks gorgeous! We’re ordering the holiday collection.

Sweet Silk Confections by Shefalee

Tags: Rent a kitchen in New York, Shefalee Patel, Sweet Silk

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