Rant
A Stupid Rant
1) Mangalore Air Crash – It is a disaster. Tragic for families. Mourning can never be easy. But when you have politicians and media all over the television trying to pontificate (without any evidence) of what exactly went wrong, peaceful mourning can be close to impossible.
For some reason or the other, disasters happen. What is [...]
Ranting News
1) The much awaited and eagerly hyped marriage has indeed come to an end. No, I am not talking of the Indo-China bhai-bhai pact or the India-Pak Aman ki Asha initiative coming to fruition. The talk of the town has indeed been the Shoaib Malik-Sania Mirza nikah. The media as usual went ga-ga over a [...]
Cricket Commentary and Commentators
The common complaint nowadays while watching cricket, apart from India losing, is the extent to which the standards of commentating a cricket match have fallen. I agree, but only partly.
Some of the great moments in the game have been wonderfully captured by equally good, if not great commentary of those times. I still recall vividly [...]
The World of ‘Jargon’ia – Redux
My earlier post on Jargons
It is about time I update my list of jargons. I mean, its been 2 long years in the corporate world since the last jargon-ic blogpost, and you can be dead sure I have been inundated with jargons in this time. In this blogpost, I present my humble view on what I [...]
Books – To read or not to read
I love reading books. I was by no means a voracious reader till my late teens. After that, I devoured every book that came my way (fiction and non-fiction alike) and enjoyed them thoroughly.
But as I realized later, over the past 4-5 years to be precise, I did not like all books. In fact, I [...]
Depravity of Orkut – Redux
My earlier rant on Orkut here.
My usage of social networking sites has dropped down to a bare minimum. I had a very brief fling with Facebook but with all the poking going around and walls being torn down by spam messages, I was forced to abandon the monster. I do have an account but am [...]
Elections 2009 – Urban India Voter Turnout – Appalling!
I) Quoting from an article in Mail Today -
“Sample this: Mumbai, the commercial capital of the country and the city that witnessed massive public mobilisation after the 26/11 terror attacks, managed a figure of only 43 per cent in the phase held on April 30 (the lowest since 1977); Bangalore, the seat of the country’s [...]
Mumbai Terror Attack – Opinions galore!
1. Our dear President, Her Excellency Pratibha Patil Thursday strongly condemned the deadly terror attacks in Mumbai and asked people to maintain calm and cooperate with authorities. Why, even Shivraj Patil strongly condemned the terror attacks and let us know the all-important information that the terrorists chose a time and place where they could cause [...]
Getting fired and the US financial crisis!
Last week, one of my colleague got fired. He got fired due to non-performance rather than the huge financial turmoil that has been happening lately in the US. He was a very good friend of mine and we spent a lot of time talking about soccer (he was from Europe) and in general were on [...]
Save the Planet – Eff you guys!
There, I said it – All you guys who claim/market to ‘Save the Planet’ – you can go eff yourselves (Eff (read it as a single letter ‘f’), of course, certainly doesn’t mean Fraternity, but means a four letter word whose usage would block my blog at the workplace!)
Isn’t it fashionable nowadays to be a [...]
