Monthly Archives: April 2009

A strange kind of ennui prevented me from blogging these few days. Apologies. The mind mulled over various posts I usually have swimming around in my mind, but didn’t focus on any one, as the faculties didn’t co-operate with finger … Continue reading →

Being an avid viewer of television and social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Ryze, I am shocked, nay, slightly disturbed, to read the following news that appeared in Mumbai Mirror. Guess, I should cut down on these, for my … Continue reading →

These days I spend two or three hours each day reading email. By reading I mean, I delete a lot of emails that come from Africa, written by women who say she is the heiress of a big diamond mine … Continue reading →

“Let’s get together. Let us see what we want from each other,” the heavily South-Indian-accented voice says. She works for a desi-owned dot com and is trying to sell me space on her website and I am in no position … Continue reading →

You tend to doze in front of the idiot box, barely watching the movie, name of which eludes you, is it “What lies beneath” or “Zodiac” or “Code Red” or what? Things blur. The sub-titles are hazy, you turn to … Continue reading →

Got a few lakhs lying around? Invest in the stock market! Before you get a fairly long and sturdy stick to whup my ass with, let me say this: the market is not going to bottom, at least this much, … Continue reading →

Of the many forums I am a member a fight is brewing in a forum of writers discussing books and authors, and as is expected the exchanges are nothing short of vituperative and virulent. One of them goes something like … Continue reading →

In my profession of providing content to corporates there’s a lot of jargon which keeps being duplicated without thought. I would like to point out one such instance here…. In our partnership with these prestigious organizations, xxxxxxx delivers workflow and … Continue reading →

A bit indisposed, guess it is something I ate, so a short takes today, as I have this urge to lie down and sleep which I am fighting, you know, it’s been a hard day’s night and all that…. Also … Continue reading →

I saw a great movie yesterday, named “Primeval,” really scary, too. In it an actor, an African-American says, “Man, anything you do to get out of Africa is a good thing.” Really? Now HBO and Star Movies have English sub-titles … Continue reading →