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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Priceless Info for H1!

Whenever I am in grave doubt, I turn to ‘the one’ source. Whenever I need to make an important decision, I turn to ‘the one’ source. In this age where there is an acute shortage for real spiritual gurus, my only respite is this online spiritual guru of mine – the mind-bogglingly intelligent, outrageously hilarious..err..poignant [...]

Numbers!

Numbers – one of the most fascinating discoveries (or is it an invention?) of mankind. A bedrock of industrialisation and now, computerization – numbers have been a part and parcel of everyone’s life. The appeal of numbers lie in their clear cut logic and unambiguity at any stage, be it an equipment, any business or [...]