PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: For all those gloating over Italy’s victory and moaning over India’s absence from a moment like this—a World Cup presence if not triumph—take heart, we are actually conjoined countries; two nations separated by very little. And their triumph is (almost) ours, give or take the “inner voice”.
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12. Italy: five-letter name. India: five-letter name
11. Italy: red, green, white flag. India: saffron, green, white flag
10. Italy: cradle of Roman civilisation. India: cradle of Indus Valley civilisation
9. Italy: mecca of Catholicism. India: mecca of Hinduism
8. Italy: trademark dish, pizza. India: trademark dish, utthappam
7. Italy: 61 years of being a republic. India: 60 years of freedom
6. Italy: a government-a-year till 1990s. India: a government-a-year since 1990s
5. Italy: corruption is a way of life. India: coruption is a way of life
4. Italy: home of Fiat, Vespa, Lambretta. India: ditto
3. Italy: boys in blue. India: boys in blue
2. Italy: matchfixing allegations in football. India: matchfixing allegations in cricket
1. Italy: Sonia Maino. India: Sonia Gandhi
churumuri 
Quite interesting. Specialy the Sonia part. However i would like to differ on the trade mark dish for India. It would be more of Dosa or Pau Bhaji!
By the way may be Italy’s win can inspire our Men in Blue to perform better and also our factual PM Soniaji!
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The very first reason to celebrate is that Italy is the land of Sonia Gandhi. Let us all be proud, celebrate the event, and enjoy. This is as good as India winning the Football finals.
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Videsi lady Sonia must change the education system by intoducing compulsory football classes in all the Indian schools. And after football game government must provide free pizza meal to the students and football game must end with Italian National anthem not “jana gana mana”. Mera Bharat Mahan ! Mera Bofors Mahan !
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This is not at all interesting. Honestly, I think these comparisons are downright stupid. The only thing I can say is that this is much much much better than the ones between Sachin tendulkar and Rajkumar, i thought that was downright kid stuff. Both Tendulkar and Rajkumar like good food…come ooooon.
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yaarree Siva kalsidhhu yidhanna brihaspathi
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ah, useless rant.
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this defintely looks like a typical assignment for a s/w guy on bench :)
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ರೀ..ವಿನಯ್..ಯಾಕ್ರಿ.. S/W engg ಮರ್ಯಾದೆ ತೆಗಿತಿದ್ದಿರಾ
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