We are the Champions!
28 years. It’s almost a lifetime in sports. We are the Champions of Cricket. It’s been a tough journey. Sachin. A dream fulfilled. This is it! Actually, let me take a step back. I was 6 months old when we won the 1983 World Cup. The only memories of that World Cup win is through [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Random Thoughts…
1) The big news of the past week was obviously the death of ‘King of Pop’, Michael Jackson. While the real and virtual worlds were debating on the ‘greatest ever’, ‘best ever’ etc, all odes and tributes aside from millions of fans from the world over, I had this wonderful little gtalk conversation with my [...]
New Business Idea – Free ISD Calls (say, US to India)
Being in the US for over more than a year now, I have had to pay through my nose for all the ISD calls that I make – to India, Singapore etc. That was a problem to solve right there – why should I pay? Is there a way to make these calls free? The [...]
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 [...]
What has India done and What should India do!
1) It is strange that each one of us would be willing to be involved in some form of cathartic activity to demonstrate our opposition to terrorism. We suddenly had a spurt in the number of ‘I hate terrorism’ communities/groups on different social networks like Orkut and Facebook. It was as if we suddenly woke [...]
Festival of India
Last weekend, ‘Festival of India’ was conducted in our city. Now, ‘Festival of India’ in any city in the US necessarily attracts lots of food caterers first, along with the usual unnecessary audience which doesn’t make noise at an event. There were many interesting events, most of them with tiny-toddlers dancing away to glory while [...]
