Vijay Narayanan on May 27th, 2006

When was it last you saw a gangster movie in Tamil? Pattiyal, you say? That was about contract killers. I’m asking you about a gansta’ movie. When was it last that you saw a movie which reached out from the screen and hit you hard in the face?Want to savour both those experiences in a [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on May 24th, 2006

Thanks to a friend, I stumbled onto Shunya – a site which claims to be “a community site for people interested in contemporary Indian Technology.” Slashdot users will find the layout familiar. The content is India-centric. For example, today’s front page has articles on whether semiconductor fabrication plants are a wise move, outsourcing, Microsoft’s desi-centric [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on May 23rd, 2006

The decline began two years ago, when India’s electorate rejected the claim that the nation was shining. And ever since, the Bharatiya Janata Party has never been taken seriously.Of course, you get to see a few leaders on news channels, and sometimes protesting outside the Parliament, but the party which once trumpeted “Able leader, stable [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on May 22nd, 2006

You might have come across this term while browsing. I tried solving one about a month ago, but left it half-way. But I didn’t know it was such a rage before Kaps wrote about it replacing Sudoku in bookstores. Wikipedia defines Kakuro or Cross Sums thus: … is a very common type of logic puzzle [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on May 22nd, 2006

Sensex? Senf***ed-up!

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