Rant
Deepak Chopra – Interpreted!
Deepak Chopra is supposedly one of the leading Indian Gurus in Spiritualism. In this blogpost, I try to interpret some of his twitter messages (interested folks can follow him @deepakchopra on twitter). These tweets (in italics) were tweeted between November and December this year. 1) Everyday reality is a waking dream where you project yourself [...]
India and UN Security Council
This week has to be hailed as one of the greatest weeks in 2010 for India. Three news items have been splashed across different channels of the media. It was as if we won Independence all over again. Anyway, enmeshed between the news of India’s comprehensive win in the India-Australia test series and the massive [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
