Archive for October, 2005
I kid you not. This evening, I reached home after a tormenting drive from Andheri to Chembur (those in Mumbai will appreciate the effort it takes at about 6 pm!).
To start with, things were normal… I came home, freshened up, changed and sat down in front of the TV… my ’seat’ till dinner. Soon enough, [...]
Just a few days ago, I asked for the omission of Sachin Tendulkar from the Indian team. Little did I know that he would do this to me! But for once, I am happy to be eating my words… and I really enjoyed the way he made me do it!
Perhaps it’s time I did the [...]
Sarah Jessica Parker in ‘Sex and the City’
Sounds creepy to say the least! But that’s what Zoom TV is announcing. It will create local versions of Friends [1, 2] and Sex and the City [1, 2]… why is anybody’s guess. I mean, hasn’t Friends been tried before on Indian TV (called Friends Forever) and was [...]
Why bother, I ask? If you ‘general notice‘ is in favour of only your own people, may as well send out an e-mail or internal mailer…
Anyway, the contents of this notice are hilarious. Must-see on today’s Page 3 of Hindustan Times (Mumbai at least).
The gist of it is that whatever claims they have made are [...]
Looks like someone has finally called the bluff of the family Chaudhari. Dr (?) Malay Chaudhari’s education (!) has been laid bare and soon, it may be time for his son’s qualifactions to be laid bare.
Man, it looks like they will regret taking on the blogosphere!
[Via India Uncut and DesiPundit]
Technorati : [...]
Logic escapes me when I see the photo with this story.
Check this.
Ice Rocket : Films, India, Mohanlal
There’s a smug feeling about Greg Chappell for the last couple of days and why not? After much controversy, it would seem that he has finally had things his way. How he did this is unimaginable.Getting through the an(n)als of Indian cricket and getting things his way despite being a ‘foreigner’ has indeed been nothing [...]
Finally, the team for India’s next two series (v Sri Lanka and South Africa) has been announced and the selection leaves a slightly bitter taste in the mouth to say the least.Why? Because Tendulkar made the cut. Before you screm Bloody Murder, consider this:
In the recently concluded NKP Salve Challenger Series that was meant to [...]
Finally one of the big boys has picked up the news-worthiness of blogs and decided to add them to their News sections. About time too!
Technorati : Blogs, India, Mumbai, News, Yahoo
And I don’t say this! It’s AC Himself! And on his own site! And in an article by his holiness the Ponytail!
What I am trying to drive towards is the non challengeable fact that management
as a stream of studies is more hype than content.
Lest you guys not believe what I have extracted from [...]
I think this post is jinxed. My computer has crashed thrice and each time I was about to hit ‘Publish’! Never mind!
The point I try to make is bloggers are increasingly being tracked and even sued in some cases because of their outspokenness. This, in no case, though, should compromise the very nature of blogging [...]
Truth just isn’t what it used to be. People who want to tell the truth still exist but are not as abundant. So when you do find someone who does speak up (unlike newspaper ads), I think we should stand by them. But battles that are fought by individuals against the might of larger institutions [...]
This was bound to happen. Just that it’s a little sooner rather than later. And what’s the deal with psychological sessions for gaming??!?
People have even died because they played for over 50 hours at a stretch. Soon enough, we might not see people on the streets because everyone is hunched over a computer screen… [...]
Is there life after death? Where do we go when we die? Does the devil chew on our souls and spit it out? What happens to blogs that die? Where did that last one come from?
It came from some recent thinking I have been doing (on the side… not my profession, mind you!) and [...]
Please please please take this in the right spirit. Just got this from a friend and thought it would be a good chuckle!
A young second generation Indian in the US was asked by his mother to explain the significance of “Diwali” to his younger brother, this is how he went about it…
“So, like this [...]
Very proudly, as though it were the breakthrough of the century, Microsoft has sent this to its users in India (about 10 days ago):
Here’s great news for Hotmail users! Hotmail just got bigger & better. You can now enjoy 250 MB storage for your email account at no extra cost. Also, keep your mailbox clean [...]
Now this is wierd… totally and outright wierd. I mean why would anyone believe that someone could turn into a monkey (or kangaroo or any animal for that matter!)?
Unless they were two french fries short of a happy meal…
So what if his ‘chhota beta’ dislikes politics? He’s got eight more kids to turn into politicians and ensure that Bihar is ruled by his family (like a dynasty) for at least another 100 years. Something also tells me that Tejaswi Yadav (the son) will shortly be ‘eligible’ for a place in the Indian Cricket [...]
So says Mid Day about the Super Series currently on in Australia. And with only 17,000 of the available 55,000 tickets being sold (can’t find a link for this) for today’s game, maybe that’s a fair assessment.
But then again, this may well be because it’s a working day and a bigger crowd may just turn [...]
Shameful. What, I say, is the point of helping the Police if those whose reputation you saved don’t care for it? Why identify a thief?
Read this and weep! If you are an aspiring writer and have dreamed of such deals, you must read this. This dude – Vikram Chandra (and he’s a good writer, mind you!) – has just picked up a $1 million (or $1.3 mn) deal from HarperCollins for his next book. And all this, after a [...]
I have nothing against festivals and especially this one. I quite enjoy the music, sweets and a feeling of ‘nice’ that envelops one during this period.
But there is a fundamental difference in how these festivals are celebrated across India. In Pune, for example, I remember Ganeshotsav being the biggest followed by Diwali and then Christmas. [...]
I have nothing against festivals and especially this one. I quite enjoy the music, sweets and a feeling of ‘nice’ that envelops one during this period. But there is a fundamental difference in how these festivals are celebrated across India. In Pune, for example, I remember Ganeshotsav being the biggest followed by [...]
I have not seen anything as revolutionary since sliced bread! A fairness cream just for men! And check out how unique and original the name is too! “Fair And Handsome”. Yes, I am serious.
Launched recently (I saw the TVC where a college guy sneaks into the girls hostel to steal their fairness cream… cream of [...]
Of late, I have realised that it is extremely boring to log into Blogger and then type out the post. This, I feel, makes me lazy. So instead of letting Blogger take the credit for me being lazy, I set out to find the right tool to do so. Along the way, I found Anconia [...]
Of late, I have realised that it is extremely boring to log into Blogger and then type out the post. This, I feel, makes me lazy. So instead of letting Blogger take the credit for me being lazy, I set out to find the right tool to do so. Along the way, [...]
I have not seen anything as revolutionary since sliced bread! A fairness cream just for men! And check out how unique and original the name is too! “Fair And Handsome”. Yes, I am serious.
Launched recently (I saw the TVC where a college guy sneaks into the girls hostel to steal their fairness cream… cream [...]
