SOPA reminds me of project we code named as SOPA while I was working at Satyam Computer Services Ltd. And PIPA reminds me of PIPPA Middleton and her famous bottom. But SOPA and PIPA are in news for a different reason. Wikipedia blacked out, Google covered its logo with black strip to mark their protest … Continue reading »
Category Archives: India
Who is Salman Rushdie??
To me, many of my friends and, to many other men who would be brave enough to confess, Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an ex-husband of actress, model, television host, and cookbook author, the dusky and the sultry Padma Lakshmi. ‘Midnight’s Children’, ‘Booker prize’ and ‘The Satanic Verses’ were later found out. Why I am … Continue reading »
The model election code of conduct
The Election Commission has ordered for covering up of all the ‘Mayawati’ and ‘elephant’ statues as a part of code of conduct for the upcoming assembly elections in U.P. I wonder if the code of conduct can actually be implemented, and is restricted to just the statues, because according to the same logic they should … Continue reading »
India / News / People / Social Cause
Happy New Year!!
Waking up to the news that 9 die in road mishaps(in Hyderabad) on New Year is not exactly how I planned to start the year, and writing about it was definitely not how I would have wanted it, but then that’s life, gives you unexpected and makes you do unplanned. Out of 9 that died, … Continue reading »
A magic potion called Jan Lokpal
A magic potion called Jan Lokpal A cure to all disease, a remedy to all your problems has finally arrived. No it is not “Sandhi Sudha” as claimed by a leading (really?) Bollywood actor it is called Jan Lokpal. Want true democracy? Just support the Jan Lokpal movement!! True democracy has finally arrived in the … Continue reading »
Not done.. call me a male chauvinist but I am against it
I recently downloaded and read a part of the ‘Report of Dr Anil Kakodkar Committee’ on ‘Taking IITs to Excellence and Greater Relevance’. Here are some key findings from the report In 2010, only 12% of those who qualified in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) were women. This was a mere 6% just 5 years … Continue reading »
AMRI fire, have we learned anything?
India Inc. has this uncanny knack of shocking me. On one hand we are this ever progressing, developing country on the verge of being developed ever since I remember, on the other hand incidents like the one that happened in AMRI Kolkata saddens me to the core, bring me back to ground reality… Fire safety … Continue reading »
Prescreening
Warning: This post may be prescreened After knowing my tweets and Facebook statuses are prescreened, I thought I would probably publish a post before my blog gets on the radar and is prescreened as well. I am also baffled by the word “Prescreen”, my English is extremely poor and I am still unsure about the … Continue reading »
Occupy Wall Street
Few days(or months??) ago, I wake up to watch this new movement called Occupy wall street and slowly it started spreading like a virus. There was even an attempt to Occupy Dalal Street, the Indian equivalent of Wall Street. Twitter was full of #OccupyWallStreet hashtags; Facebook was full of updates, the movement created a buzz … Continue reading »
Being Sachin Tendulkar…
For those who love him, more so for those who do not… It is extremely difficult to carry the burden of expectations, and when the expectation is from millions of cricket crazy crowd it becomes near impossible. When everybody expects you to make a century each time you walk to bat, would it be fair … Continue reading »
