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SHAME! 25 Feb 2008 | 03:03 am
The other night a colleague of mine was stranded in a local train which had run someone over, resulting in the journey being suspended for an undefined period and further resulting in her deciding to ...
Cabbages and Kings 25 Feb 2008 | 03:02 am
It’s the job. No, it’s not, it’s just laziness. The trouble is that most of my personal interests overlap with my professional one, and that makes it hard to blog on a site that, by my own definition,...
I’m gruntled after reading this one 4 Sep 2007 | 08:49 pm
In one of my favourite reads of all time, PG Wodehouse wrote, “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” To me, then, it was a bizarre experience of a non-word br...
Winsome loses some, wins lots 30 Aug 2007 | 03:51 pm
A model claims that she's been the victim of online fraud to the tune of Rs. 21,568. That's not a lot of money to merit long articles in The Times of India and DNA (two newspapers I saw reports in). ...
Why India is out of the Big Mac Index: Where's the beef? 28 Aug 2007 | 07:15 pm
Still on economist.com. Looked at the Big Mac Index. Couldn't find India. Why? Clicked on link offering explanation. Found this: Burgernomics is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity, the n...
India cleans up corruption act 28 Aug 2007 | 07:06 pm
Was on Economist.com. Looking for sports articles under articles by subject. “Corruption” caught my eye. Clicked link. Here’s what I found: EUROPE: Albania's government No power, no glory A tale of c...
When is a story a story? 22 Aug 2007 | 07:12 pm
When a Telugu filmstar turns 52, as CNN IBN feels? Is it ever a story when someone turns 52? In case the channel runs out of stories, here’s some help. Bill Gates turns 52 this year as well. As does I...
Good news is no news 21 Aug 2007 | 08:05 pm
That’s all one can infer from two unrelated incidents of the past month. Piyush Pandey completed 25 years at O&M. None of the MSM products saw fit to write about it. Yashpal Khanna completed 15 years...
Of people to have a drink with 21 Aug 2007 | 06:20 pm
I can’t remember the precise exchange, but it went something like this: “I’d walk a mile for a PG Wodehouse”, was Rex Stout, on PG Wodehouse. “I have walked a mile for a Nero Wolfe,” was PG Wodehouse...
Of Orkut, of Big Adda and of ego 21 Aug 2007 | 05:23 pm
When I first came across Big Adda, I said to myself, hey, I've heard about this earlier... Then I remembered, hey, I've written about this earlier... And here's a part of a post written in October 2...
