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Quantum Relationships

I was talking to my friend the other day when he mentioned that he was in a ‘proxy relationship’. On enquiring further on this inter-galactic phrase, he explained that he didn’t know whether ‘he was in love’ or ‘he was just friends’ with this girl [which actually meant that he is interested but is shit [...]

Elections 2009 – The road to Cong-here!

Chandni Chowk to Chennai, KING CONG, are a few of the sobriquets and one-liners that are being used to describe the electoral victory of the Congress. A literal sweep, am sure, most of the Congressmen would be surprised with. In the face of electing such an elite party, it is but natural for some of [...]

Obama and Outsourcing

“We will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas,” Obama said in his first address to the joint session of the US Congress. Leave it to the media to distort this statement so very twistedly, and come to [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day

The day of St. Valentine is here. The day of love…err…expressing love is here. The day of a funny poem is here – Roses are red Violets are blue I am very allergic to both What the hell did you do? Atchoo Atchoo! The day of a poignant poem is here – How I never [...]

Welcome to KiranDhanwada.com

Hiya All, I finally moved to a website of my own from the previous avatar here. I say finally, because the creation of one’s own personal website, as exciting as it sounds is not so easy – especially for a person like me who doesn’t know a language beyond the archaic ‘C’ (yes, without the [...]

Questions?!

As I sit in a dreary meeting at work, I find this irresistible urge to do a pathetic attempt at poetry which is somber, poignant, solemn and all that. When a tedious meeting meets a wandering mind, SH*T happens. So, here it goes – I understand the practicality I understand the reality In other words, [...]

Preview – 2009

One phrase to sum it all – ‘Hold tight, brave the storm’ Now that we are done with the excitement and enthusiasm of ushering in the New Year and all that, let’s look at what 2009 has in store for us. With the hypothesis of ‘data doesn’t lie’, let’s look at some of the news [...]

Happy New Year!

First up, Wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year. It’s been a crazy year, hasn’t it? The tradition across the blogosphere nowadays is to blog about lists – 2008′s list of good events, bad events, improbable events, good movies, bad movies, resolutions, number of girlfriends etc etc – the theme goes something [...]

Best and Worst movies of 2008!

With the year 2008 coming to a close, the custom of listing down the Top movies for the year beckons (what purpose does this listing solve? – well, if not anything else, I might want to revisit these movies at a later point in time). The majority of the post covers Bollywood movies although some [...]

Review – www.WishesnGifts.com

Disclosure: www.WishesnGifts.com is a start-up aimed at customers who want to send gifts from any International location to India (specifically, Hyderabad and Secunderabad for now). The review of this website/startup in this blog is purely objective, although the startup is owned by one of my friends (along with another friend of his). As usual, no [...]