MIB…

Being Myself…

• Software and sex! January 12, 2010
  When we look around we see so many people. Was the world was this crowded even when you were a child? No right? Unless of course you have done what they call a negative shift. i.e. shifted from a densely populated city like Calcutta or Bombay to a comparatively less populated city. You are thinking as [...]
• A friend around the corner… January 10, 2010
  Nilay recently posted a poem by Charles Hanson Towne which prompted me to pick it up and plagiarise. This poem is dedicated to all of my friends. Around the corner, I have a friend In this great city, that has no end. Yet the days go by, and weeks rush on, And before I know it, a year is [...]
• PMP: Honeymoon Worries! December 23, 2009
  If you think that it’s all fun when you are honeymooning then you are wrong. There are blips of realization that hit you. Did I send that report… umm… yes, I did Was that to the right person? God only knows What happened to that report? New Joinee? ‘Away on Holiday’ notification… The list is endless Maybe the appended pict […]
• No Free lunches November 19, 2009
  For the nth time I want to reiterate that there are no free lunches… I had written about the spam mail doing rounds in my earlier post: No Freebies here… However I still keep on receiving an average of 1 mail a week about some unseen reward from Ericsson or Bill Gates wanting to share [...]
• Swami Vivekananda’s Speech… November 18, 2009
  Swami Vivekananda’s Speech at Chicago
• The Odd one… November 18, 2009
  On Dhanteras, he had a date with destiny. But, Jugalkishore Jangid, 32, a carpenter chose honesty over greed. When Jangid went to the Punjab National Bank (PNB) ATM near New Cloth Market to withdraw cash and pay his workers for Diwali early on Thursday morning, he was shocked to find that he had suddenly turned into [...]
• Cheese is God! November 18, 2009
  My contention is that Cheese is God. The explanation is pretty simple. Cheese is Milk’s attempt at immortality. Now empirically we know that only God can achieve immortality or else the world would have been full of people we did not want to walk the earth longer. Since it’s a given that only God can be [...]
• The Modi Model November 15, 2009
  Excerpt from an editorial in “The Hindu” “Tomorrow the Prime Minister will inaugurate the World Economic Forum’s India Economic Summit. Lots of businessmen from all over the world will be present. They will listen attentively to him because they will be looking for ways to make money here by investing here. After all, India is the [...]
• Jack & Jill November 14, 2009
  Here’s how the Indian TV news channels would report the Jack and Jill nursery rhyme. All names (except those of Jack and Jill), are fictitious. Prashant – TV Anchor Two persons have been injured in a freak climbing accident. Jack and his companion Jill had gone up a hill to fetch a pail of water when Jack [...]
• ‘Axe’ Effect… October 31, 2009
  Communication is as limiting as it is liberating. There would have been several times when you would have told someone to try and grasp the meaning of the idea conveyed than sticking to the literal meaning. People have been taking this a step forward and filing suits for non-compliance and such. A 26-Year-Old has filed a [...]