Meetu loves De Taali, and yet she feels that it is a tad longer than she would like.  She finds it is filled with “smiles, laughs and hard-core laughter” but rates it as a “wait for the video”.  It seems like one of those “total time pass” movies, so if you are ...

It’s the time of the Bees.  Tarun writes about 11 year old Akshay Rajagopal winning the 2008 National Geographic Bee a few days ago. The winner is only the second one in this competition’s history with a perfect performance. His win has made him richer by $25,000 and a trip to the next Bee ...

The last few days have seen a few bloggers posting about the recent passing of noted playwright and screenplay writer Vijay Tendulkar.  But I found Ramu’s obit especially moving. Tendulkar Saab commented: “The characteristic note of our time is the mediocre man, and his commonplace mind. An...

So why did the terrorists bomb Jaipur yesterday? There is really no good answer to this question, for who knows why people do such senseless things.  But Nitin speculates on some possible reasons for the timing. 2. Like B Raman has argued, the bombing was related to the tenth anniversary of Pokhran...

If you haven’t seen too many posts from Gawker lately, that’s because he has become addicted to the PS3. The addiction is so strong he seems to be in imminent danger of losing all his weekends. On friday night, I downloaded the new maps and that was the beginning of my dark XP-addled jou...

Bhooma visits Ho Chi Minh City and is fascinated by the tunnels at Cu Chi, some 30 km away.  She writes an interesting post about the tunnels and the important part they played during the Vietnam war. Cu Chi is a rural district about 30 km from Ho Chi Minh City. It played an important role in the w...

Bharat describes the games that some of us played in our childhood, like Kings and Seven Stones. In the age of XBox and computer games, do today’s children even consider playing these games any more? The object of the game is to hit the runners below the knee. The boundaries of the game are ar...

Sachin, himself a Sasken employee, writes about the Sasken controversy and tries to come to terms with the complex mix of emotions he feels - anger at the composer and even more outrage at the Kannadigas who sang the parodied anthem. A Canadian loser by name Lee (no clue about his prefixes or pos...

With the Indian economy booming, the boot is on the other foot now, with recruiters doing the pursuing, and job-seekers playing hard-to-get.  Paddy takes a look at the many ways in which both recruiters and job-seekers behave in an unprofessional manner during the recruitment process.  Sound famil...

Silverine tells us why,  by every measure and going by every saying,  hers is the picture perfect family.  Quite funny.  As we all know, seemingly dysfunctional families are sometimes the closest knit. A family that prays together stays together. Dad: Jesus Christ!!! Look at the Sensex today!! M...