… in a constant search of self
Kid: Grandpa! Who is god? Grandpa: Hmm…let me try to explain. God is someone who is neither black nor white, neither woman nor a man and he loves little kids like you a lot. Kid: Why don’t you simply say, it’s Michael Jackson. His public life story is a parallel to any fairy tale that […]
I just noticed that its almost a year since I wrote anything light. It does not mean that I stopped enjoying ligher things around. Recently, I was waiting for my bus at my regular stop in front of a bakery run by Malayali (In Bangalore, if it is not an Iyengar’s bakery then it is […]
IPL (Indian Premier League) er IBL is what I would like to call the latest money machine of India. A brain child of Lalit Modi a scion of a conglomorate, IPL caught the market within no time. With Cricket as the youngest religion of the country, involving modern day gods and goddesses (in term of their […]
Obama has tried to appease his troubled countrymen with bills that could calm down the rhetoric on outsourcing and job creation. These announcements sounds more like a labor union leader’s speech than anything that is practically viable. The bullets: 1. U.S citizens are under skilled for certain jobs 2. There is a clear shortage of […]
I watched Slumdog on the Saturday before I watched it bagging 8 oscars on Monday morning. To me it’s not an Oscar material from India, but wait, it’s neither an Indain movie. It’s just a movie made in India with Indians participating. There are much more good films churned out each year from Indian production […]
Wish all fellow Indians a very Happy Republic Day, this day every year excites me.I wanted to present a little hsitory of the Indian Flag as I was able to gather. I wish soemday I could display the complete set of flags dating back to stone-age. For now I start with the Mughals – early […]
LTTE (popularly called ‘The Tigers’) – The most controversial and dreaded term/group for over 3 decades from the south of India to the deep pockets of Malaysia and anywhere in the world with a substantial population of Tamil speaking people. Started in the late 70s, this seperatist group under the leadership of its founder V.Prabhakaran […]
With the New Year’s eve approaching, a question to the dwellers of the concrete jungles of urban India. Given the below choices to go on a year end vacation to welcome the New year, what would you choose ? 1. A smoke filled pub in the heart of Bangalore 2. An all-night celebrity show at […]
A job well done by the Indian Navy frigate INS Tabar in quashing an, no, 2 immediate attempts by the Somalian pirates on the merchant ships in the Gulf of Aden. The Somalian pirates are having a kill. Here is a little attempt to the understand the situation. No one who could access internet and […]
I did not write such a comment when Pakistan was injecting terror all these years through the porous boundary we share with them. It is because I was sure that they had control of what they were doing, bad (not good) or bad that I hoped of a middle ground someday with them. It’s all […]
