Yak Pad 2.0
After much procrastination, here it is. The Yakpad 2.0 (beta). Runs on WordPress. Also, I’ve merged all my blogs into this one (tech writing blog, usability blog). This is a work in progress children.
R.I.P Raghuvaran
It is not often that an actor like Raghuvaran comes by and captures the imagination of a generation of movie fans. He was a breath of fresh air: in a landscape that was dominated by stereotypes and in a time when exaggeration was the norm. He didn’t have the wannabe-flamboyance of Kamal Hassan or the […]
NDTV Plays Big Daddy
This case is just another example of how children of the newly rich across the National Capital Region are picking up wrong habits. That’s an excerpt from NDTV’s coverage of the Gurgaon School Shootout.
Bollywood and Melodrama
“The way they are running polls and interviews, romanticising the prisoner, is ridiculous. Why isn’t Bollywood shedding tears for the victims of the bomb blasts?”— Ujwal Nikam, Public Prosecutor, 1993 Mumbai Blasts case. I don’t get it. What were these morons thinking? That melodrama will win over the judiciary? I am ashamed that the dearth […]
Dr. Haneef, will you let them make a movie?
I am happy Dr. Haneef is back home and a bit amused too that people are lining up with job offers for the traumatized doctor. Well, sigh, I am glad this story ended on a happy note. Welcome back doc. Maybe you should listen to your wife and stay back, instead of going back down […]
When Govt Asks. You give. Period!
India’s female civil servants are being told to provide details of their menstrual cycles in a new job appraisal form. Women in India’s sprawling bureaucracy have been angered by the new form sent out this year which asks, among questions about their goals and skills, “when was your last menstrual period?” and “give details of […]
Delhi is the best city to live in India
[No kidding.] And, ladies, I am George Clooney.
Iraq Irony
AN insurgent rocket today narrowly missed the Baghdad building where UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki were holding a press conference to announce that the security situation in Iraq was improving. [Link]Heh!
The Right Signal
If violence erupts or if there are calls for strikes, IT companies may have to temporarily scale down their Bangalore operations as it will become difficult for staff to get to work. Most IT companies like Infosys and Wipro have business continuity plans in place to move work to their facilities in other locations in […]
Now, eat this!
Racism – episode 2And how did these brilliant NDTV correspondents prove their story? An advertisement on a new sports channel for the ongoing India-West Indies cricket series has raised many eyebrows. No, that’s not all. Here, check this out. And critics suggest that if that was racism, then the advertisement is also guilty of the […]