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2. India banned more than 850 adult websites, but then revoked its ban following a social media uproar.
3. An Indian lawyer who lobbied for the ban described pornography as “worse than Hitler, worse than AIDS, cancer, or any other epidemic.”
4. The Singapore-based couple that created the Rotimatic, an automatic roti machine, received $11.5 million in investments, allowing them to expand to international markets.
5. The couple also announced plans to produce the Dosamatic and Purimatic.
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DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN?
Compiled/partly written by Melvin Durai 
September 2015
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
1. A court-appointed psychologist described conservative commentator and author Dinesh D’Souza, who served eight months in a halfway house for breaking campaign-finance laws, as “arrogant and intolerant of others’ feelings.”2. India banned more than 850 adult websites, but then revoked its ban following a social media uproar.
3. An Indian lawyer who lobbied for the ban described pornography as “worse than Hitler, worse than AIDS, cancer, or any other epidemic.”
4. The Singapore-based couple that created the Rotimatic, an automatic roti machine, received $11.5 million in investments, allowing them to expand to international markets.
5. The couple also announced plans to produce the Dosamatic and Purimatic.
(1, 2, 3, and 4 really happened.)
Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge.
[Comments? Contributions? We would love to hear from you about Chai Time. If you have contributions, please email us at melvin@melvindurai.com. We welcome jokes, quotes, online clips and more.]
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