[Even if you consider me a prude, I’ll excuse you.]
A couple of days ago, while returning home from work (in the company bus), I happened to speak to a like-minded friend. Mostly my conversations with him tend to be on worlds other than ours. He is certainly more devout than I am, and so we […]
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A week ago, India’s only other superstar, Rajnikanth’s latest movie Chandramukhi crossed 100 days in theatres. Given that it has been three years since we’ve had a movie from him (and five since his last hit), there was so much anticipation. If you don’t care about logic and don’t belong to the finicky types (of […]
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Filed under: Movies, People
Microsoft has rolled out Beta 1 of its next operating system Windows VISTA (formerly codenamed “Longhorn”. Most of the initial reviews that I’ve perused are positive - okeh, at least they aren’t negative!I found Paul Thurrott’s review quite detailed and incisive. Click here to read it.
Here are some of the features / enchancements that the […]
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Chennai is one of those few wonderful Indian cities where it never rains at all. Least of all in July. But in the past week, we had two blasts of rain worth the name. Some depression off the coast to alleviate the depression of those on it. Therefore the news that Mumbai was being lashed […]
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[Of the dozens of forwarded mails I get, this is something which made sense]
It seems that the story of an inspired young man was floating around cyberspace. Because the story gave away the name of that person in the closing lines, someone decided to mail him directly to find out if it was indeed true. […]
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The wait is over! This week, a gaping Tamil populace found out the colour of actress Jyotika’s wedding saree. Colours - with an ’s’ - to be precise, because there are 54600 of them - all in one saree! RmKV Silks has launched a set special edition silk sarees, which will most probably enter the […]
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Is creativity such a bad thing? Surely it takes a great deal to dream and innovate. But this thing was downright funny, and stupid.
A prominent Indian insurance company had launched a campaign in one city to fire up its agents to sell more insurance policies. The person they had chosen to emulate was none other […]
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I had actually decided to post a review entitled “Why I don’t like Ilaiyaraja’s Thiruvasagam?”. I had sufficient reasons to support that contention; and given my verbosity, it wouldn’t have been tough. Here go the reasons…
Since Monday, I have been unable to concentrate on anything. My productivity levels (which are already pathetic) are hitting new […]
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Filed under: Music, Tamil
[This is a VKpedia exclusive!]
Maruti’s recently launched Swift has been topping the charts since its release. Only today did I have the good fortune to observe it from different angles and be bowled over by the beauty and aesthetic elegance of this engineering marvel. Hoping to find out more, I ventured to the car’s website, […]
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Filed under: Humour, Miscellaneous
[I’m posting this just to while away time; as usual, I have nothing else to say]
A couple of days ago, there was an interview on NDTV Profit featuring some intellectual whose name they didn’t care to display in those 5 minutes I watched. I think they were discussing about morality and such forgotten things. The […]
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Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (shortened as ICANN, so as to sound optimistic) has unveiled a plan to carve out a separate area of the Internet for people who browse through mobile phones. The new TLD (top-level domain) will be .mobi (dot mobi). So in the future if you wanna surf […]
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I’ve tried to collect some random thoughts after writing the previous post.
I had assumed that it was a wrong move on Yahoo!’s part to rope in Malaika Arora to promote their web mail service in India. I still stand by it. Going by Thejo’s analysis, more users might mean more profits, and some advertisement is […]
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These days, Yahoo! Mail users from India have a great new reason to keep coming back to their mailbox often. And those who don’t have a Yahoo! ID can trash GMail, HMail and all that, and sign up with Yahoo! India. The reason: Malaika Arora (Khan) has been roped in as eye candy for the […]
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London is in the news again. The old city, which only yesterday had won the bid for the 2012 Olympic Games, was rocked today by a series blasts on the metro and bus networks. Popular modes of public transport are being targeted serially by extremists. This is understandable because they can make a poignant statement […]
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This afternoon, I took some real time off the work and checked out what is easily the coolest piece of software yet - Google Earth. It delivers cutting-edge technology to satiate the curiosity of the schoolboy (or -girl) in us.
That most Indian cities (I checked Chennai and Mumbai) are yet to be mapped came as […]
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[I’m male. My Chinese sign is the pig. But I’m no MCP, pleeeeease!]
I was speaking to a college junior last night. Life in the final year of an engineering degree programme should be among the most enjoyable things in the world… especially when you’ve landed a job too. This chap however had some things to […]
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Yesterday, as I was on my way to work, I observed that the roads were teeming with posters, banners and hoardings welcoming Mr. Vijayakanth (a frontline hero in the Tamil cine industry). The banners read “varungaala mudhalvare varuga varuga” (We welcome you, our future Chief Minister). This ostentation was present for more than 10 kilometres, […]
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Filed under: People, Politics
