Monthly Archives: October 2009

It’s a shame that the Gormint discriminates when giving what it calls “relief” to flood-hit people of Northern Karnataka in the districts of Dharwad, Haveri, Gadag, Bijapur, Bagalkot and Belgaum. These districts have been badly affected by the recent floods … Continue reading →

Bloggers, Facebookers, Tweeters rejoice, the future of the internet is user generated content – that too real time user generated – according to this article quoting Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Excerpt: “It’s because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information … Continue reading →

He is a sad old man selling boiling gram on Azad Maidan. He does a day job somewhere and sqats opposite the Bombay Gymkhana facing the Municipal Corporation building across from the cricket pitches of Bombay’s landmark green area. He … Continue reading →

This is hilarious, really is. We all know how Indian television reporting goes in a circle, circumambulates, and returns to the very point it started from. While on the screen plays repeated clippings of the same video over and over, … Continue reading →

Dear Kapil Sibal-ji, This missive is my humble appreciation of the efforts you are taking to improve the education system (which has been pulverised and prostituted by the education mafia) in this country. I also speak as a harried and … Continue reading →

Chandelier! This beautiful chandelier in the office lobby was lit for the festival of lights – Deepavali – meaning a row of lights. Deepavali signifies the victory of good over evil and the celebratory procession of lights that welcomed the … Continue reading →

Just back from Kerala, beautiful Kerala, the state of my birth, mother country, the state that confounds me still with its vivid contrasts and inexplicable charm. I was born there, but somehow I can’t understand it well enough that too … Continue reading →

The Economist published this review about Arundhati Roy’s Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy which wasn’t very laudatory. I guess, in my humblest of opinions, the Economist reviewer wasn’t much aware of Roy’s work for the destitute and dispossessed … Continue reading →

Says this article in business.in.com: “In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behaviour it fuelled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the … Continue reading →

This photo is for making a statement, sent to me by a friend, whom I trust. So, it’s for a fair use, I guess. The highway functionary in charge of painting this road erred, err, sorry, the tree erred in … Continue reading →