Petrol prices are up. So are fares of buses, and cabs, and autos. Well, bus fares have gone Rs 1 up on every ticket, be it Rs 3 or Rs 11. Not a very good ratio but still OK. Cabs have raised their fares too. And now the autowallahs also are trying to get the [...]
The new Rupee Symbol is launched, but then there is no rupee Symbol in the computers or anywhere else. Making this symbol is quite easy. But then how to make it on computer is a problem unsolved. Still, we have a way to make a picture of the symbol quite close to the original one [...]
Here is my own try on the picture of new Rupee Symbol approved by the Cabinet, I guess just that it needs to be a bit more curved at the middle.
When i was in school and we were asked to write essays on our favourite books i always wrote Mahabharata. There is a saying in Bengali :”Ja nei bharate, ta nei bharate” which means anything that did not find a place in the great epic, does not exist in India. Politics forms the crux of [...]
I just happened to see the schedule today, so felt like many more people might be looking for this. In Cricket WCT20, India is in Group C, with Afghanistan and South Africa, and both of India’s league matches are scheduled at 9:30 local time so that we can watch them at 7PM. Schedule: Sat, May [...]
What is the lowest price for a QWERTY phone in India? All I saw yet was in the range of 4-5k, the lowest being probably Rs 3220 by some FLY mobiles. But breaking all these records, Intex has come up with a QWERTY cellphone for Rs 2200. The Model, IN 2020 QT, is a dual [...]
Frankly, it’s not really a book review. It’s more of a love affair with a book which happens to be my hardly-known-to-me hero’s autobiography. Biddu was a name that I had read a lot of times, on a lot of tracks that I loved during the Indipop revolution of mid to late ’90s. And so, [...]
Now that India has won its first match against Pakistan, we want to see more. So here is the schedule of the matches India will be playing in the Pool Stage of the World Cup Hockey 2010. March 2 2010, 8:35 PM: India vs Australia. March 4 2010, 8:35 PM: India vs Spain. March 6 [...]
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Now that was a surprise for me. And for everyone who heard or saw. In 2009′s list of highest rated movies, there were 3 movies in top twenty while I found 3 more in top 100. The list had Anurag Kashyap’s Dev.D on 8th in the list with an average of 8.3/10 while 3 Idiots [...]
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Bangalore, or Bengaluru now, is one of the best cities I have seen. But still there are things that need to be worked upon, in large measure. This time, I have some pictures of Mota Royal Arcade that speak for themselves. A mall at one of the best locations possible in Bangalore, provides you paid [...]
If you have some old, working but unused cellphones and you’re wondering what to do with it, do watch the new Aircel public service advertisement if you haven’t. Something I never thought of is there, and I think it’s a good idea, even if it may not be something huge. The idea is to donate [...]
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ye zameen ye aasmaan ye zameen ye aasmaan hamara kal, hamara aaj buland bharat ki buland tasveer, hamara bajaj… This advertisement had stopped being there on television years ago. But then, there were new versions and new scooters and memories of old TV that kept hamara bajaj alive. And now, it’s finally going to be [...]
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It’s the world AIDS day today and I decided to give you all the links to these wonderful movies made on AIDS. No. They are not documentaries but some really good pieces of work by the greatest directors of this age, funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. And the best part is that they [...]
Journalism in India has become a rat race. While being ‘Sabse Tez’ has become the mantra of News Channels, even newspapers go limits sometimes. Yes, I have become habitual to those news channels. I know how to deal with them now. I have removed India TV from my TV and I know when to switch [...]
So there is some news for Madhuri Dixit fans out here (for everyone almost, I’d say). It’s being made by filmmaker and theater director Krishna Shah who claims to have been writing the movie for the past 23 years now and wants to bring it on screen within two years. The movie will be in [...]
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