In the beginning, there was God.
But God chased a wide delivery,
And ended up back in the pavilion.
In came Dhoni… the rest is history!
Showing no mercy…
When Mahendra Singh Dhoni, our man from Jharkhand, walked in, the mood of the Sri Lankans was nothing but jubilant, because they had just removed Sachin Tendulkar. But over the next [...]
Is this Chennai? A city which rejoices if there is cloud cover for 40 minutes was lashed, battered (and at places, bruised) by 40 hours of non-stop torrential downpour. Yes, 40 hours! Of those I know, only Soumyadip should have experienced such rainfall.Now that the rains have stopped for almost a day, Chennai starts limping [...]
Prior to India’s independence, Kolkata (Calcutta) should have been India’s most forward-looking city. Intellectual affluence, and abundance of literary and artistic talent at the turn of the century in “the second city of the Empire” is evidenced by the saying “What Calcutta does today, the rest of India follows tomorrow.”Perhaps, looking at the negative publicity [...]
If there is any better news than Chennai being lashed by cyclones Rakkayi, Kamatchi and Valliammai (those are the names – equivalent to Rita, Katrina and Wilma – doing the rounds in the SMS circles), then this should be it…
Charlton knock Chelsea out of League Cup
Reuters reports:
Chelsea’s season suffered its first serious blemish on Wednesday [...]
After the maha mega giga hit of Chandramukhi, comes Rajnikanth’s next movie…
Sivaji… the boss
Rumour has it that the story is about Rajnikanth travelling around the world, in search of his (six other) look-alikes. Seems like he has found a couple of them here.
The Boss, with Shreya (she looks quite skinny, eh?)
Without saying as much, Sir Alex Ferguson has conceded the 2005-06 Premiership to Chelsea. The fiery Scot has opined that his team are better positioned to win the Champions League than the Premier League. So what is wrong with Manchester United, the most famous club in the world?As I see it, the problem with United [...]
PressTalk has published a statement which, they claim, has been doing the rounds for the past few hours as IIPM’s official statement to the media.From what I understand, the statement doesn’t say much. Except maybe a curt admission that the IIMs are beyond compare, and that IIPM suffers from an irreparable megalomania.
For an article I had posted about Tamil Murasu, I had received multiple spam comments, which I discovered came from Sun TV’s office. Through a friend close to Sun TV, I had mailed them stating that this was an unwarranted and disturbing happening, which was bringing them a lot of negative publicity.Yesterday, I received a [...]
Meet the new face of world chess…
Vesselin Topalov is the new FIDE World Chess Champion. He has bested the tournament favourite and world number one, Vishwanathan Anand. Bulgaria’s Sofia News Agency contains this who’s who on their national toast.
The World Chess Champion Vesselin Topalov was born March 15, 1975 in the Danube city of Rousse.
He [...]
NDTV correspondent Alaphia Zoyab had mentioned in her blog that NDTV would carry the story in its 10:30 PM show, Mumbai Live. She then re-posted saying that the show will not feature this issue. However, she has since re-posted again. It seems that NDTV has (un)covered this in its 8 and 9 PM news shows. [...]
The Indian Express (Mumbai Edition) has carried an article on the current blogstorm. It is heartening to note that the mainstream media, which has till now acted comfortably numb to the issue, is waking up.Kaps and I had asked Sudhish Kamath (of The Hindu) why the media was acting deaf-mute to this issue. His response [...]
Ravikiran has issued a call to the blogging community to write “the facts” about IIPM into its Wikipedia page. His idea in doing this is to save all prospective seekers of information, by providing them with the right information.I appreciate the ends he is striving for (the right to correct information), but I am not [...]
It seems to me that in the affair concerning IIPM and us bloggers, we have been really unfair to the institute and its founder, Mr. Arindam Chaudhuri. We have been maligning them left, right and centre, without understanding the nature of the service that they have rendered to us. And this comes from someone who [...]
A few months ago, three hundred students sacrificed admits to Ivy League b-schools like Harvard, Wharton, Kellogg, Chicago and Stanford. Because they had just realised their life’s dream and ambition. They were heading to India… to study in the world’s numero uno institute. They were all armed with admits to the IIPM. Yeah, that’s right. [...]
Haven’t you discovered Orkut yet? The Google-affiliated online community that aims to “connect people through a network of trusted friends”. Using Orkut, you can connect to long-lost friends, or simply make new acquaintances who share common interests and backgrounds.If you need an Orkut invite, post a comment specifying your name and email address (preferably [...]
However my music listening is kinda strange.
Why that line? Because I’ve been tagged by Tarun. This is the Tag 23 meme. And this is what you should do…
1. Delve into your blog archive
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to)
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to)
4. Post the text of the sentence in your [...]
Indians, in particular, Tamilians are known for their hospitality. The way we adapt with other peoples and cultures in evident from the popularity of many filmstars and politicians. Rajnikanth, KJ Yesudoss, SP Balasubramanian do not hail from Tamil Nadu, and yet are followed fanatically.In the past few years, Udit Narayan has risen to prominence in [...]
Yesterday, my uncle and I took a drive as far as Tiruninravur, a small temple town, some 20 kilometres from Chennai. On the way, we were discussing a host of issues. The topic turned to how the three primary Gods of the Hindu pantheon all had divine consorts, and how this was a distinguishing feature [...]
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