कँही दूर जब ...............

How do we value farmer's sweat and blood?

2010-10-20T12:54:00.000+06:00

In last 3 years I have come across many papers on development and woes of our villages. To use the broad statistics from different sources, 2/3 of our population is engaged in agriculture/rural sector and the share of this sector in GDP is around 17-18%!! It makes me wonder as to how do we value the blood and sweat of farmers. What makes agriculture products to be valued so low that output of

Beautiful Game

2010-07-04T13:29:00.000+06:00

Despite all the drama and fuss of refereeing woes, constant din of vuvuzelas and unpredictable flight of jabulanis, this world cup has gone on predicted lines. Fight between European and South American football, peppered with African and Asian mix here and there. African teams have shown promise except for Nigeria which really had a poor show. SA, Ivory Coast & Ghana have made themselves count.

Class Wars

2010-06-03T10:51:00.000+06:00

This morning while driving to office, heard BBC program on Thai Red Shirt protests. The biggest refrain from this protest was about common man's perception of the government and class systems. Be it democracy or monarchy, class system dictates the systems of governance. Even communism has not been spared, its just that tables get turned and oppressed becomes the oppressor. I couldn't help but

Are we nation of blind followers?

2010-02-13T02:14:00.000+06:00

This latest tamasha in Mumbai is an example of how our countrymen love to follow a leader blindly...!! So much so that simple act of exercising your democratic right becomes act of bravery!! If Shivsainiks really set aside their blind devotion to supreme leader and try and reason out this latest Fatwa against Shahrukh Khan .. they would realize that how immature this whole thing looks to

Living in a world full of batteries..

2010-02-07T15:02:00.000+06:00

Was just wondering if batteries were the most influential invention on our lives!!

five point someone's 70%

2010-01-03T00:32:00.001+06:00

Seriously last evening's media overdose has spoilt all the fun of 3 idiots..!! It is such a good package for indian middle classes and could have done without role playing by the people behind the scenes ( victim : CB villain: VVC) I find it ridiculous that CB is playing victim in this whole thing and playing %age game :) Is he looking for 70% returns from the movie? I guess no.. He is looking

Your cellphone or music player or gaming device is your primary computer ...

2009-12-24T01:09:00.000+07:00

Hmmm ... we seem to be on the same wavelength : The trends are pretty clear. All the exciting new applications are running in the browser, with application code in the cloud and the cell phone as the platform. Your cell phone will become your primary computer. I think in the near future there will be docking stations everywhere with a screen and a keyboard. You simply pull out your phone, plug it

Google Chrome - finally my default browser

2009-12-23T12:44:00.000+07:00

It took long time for Google to add extensions and fix up the glitches on display of pdf files. Finally it has done all that and now it looks likely to stay my default browser. What made me move to Chrome was frequent crashing of Firefox and my heartfelt dislike for IE. Why I dont like IE? well that stems from their policy of upgrade to IE7 & 8. Firefox is a good browser but as it kept crashing

Google wave .. not even ripples as yet

2009-12-22T16:14:00.001+07:00

I had so much expectations from Google wave ... but almost 2 months down the line, it hasnt taken off as yet. I think despite all the claims from wave team .. this connectivity tool has failed big time. It forgets that there is universe beyond Wave !!! I think any product today would have to be really very ground breaking to force people into using its own universe for connectivity. So Google .

When would this stop in Uttarakhand

2009-09-28T13:26:00.015+07:00

Ever since I came back to Uttarakhand there have been frustrating experiences. Be it small things like the lack of traffic rules enforcement or BJP's internal fighting and hamlet of the CM stalling all the works in the state. After recent change at the helm of affairs in BJP and the subsequent actions like raids on government offices by CM etc., one hoped that now there would be atleast some

Maa | Mother

2009-08-15T19:50:00.004+07:00

Other day while listening to Taare Zameen Par's "Maa" I was suddenly reminded of "Mother" by Pink Floyd. Though both are written in different context, one from a young boy and one as a grown man looking back but these 2 songs definitely help us understand the cultural differences of east and west.I think most of us Indians or people from subcontinent would immediately identify wouth "Maa". "

Super Citizens!!

2009-07-16T14:34:00.003+07:00

After every election we witness this phenomena. Ex MPs, MLAs Ministers not rushing to vacate their official residences and perks etc.Uttarakhand though is witnessing a slightly different version of it these days. As a result of BJP's internal politics last CM had to resign. He did this but only after installing his own nominee to the same post. It has been almost a month since the new CM has

Do we need windows or any other big bloated OSs??

2009-07-14T17:41:00.002+07:00

Announcement of Google about Chrome OS actually opens a new debate altogether. Do we need Windows? Windows today is essentially base of Microsoft’s PC dominance. We actually need windows so that we can run other applications on top of it. That leads us to question as to why such this entire software universe is so resource hungry? Lets Just compare Google Docs with MS Office suite. MS Office

हिंदी !!

2009-07-03T15:23:00.003+07:00

I discovered this nice tool from google which extends their transliteration services to other websites as well.It is really exciting for multilingual people like me ... and immediately I tried it on Facebook and it worked quite well!!Where this falls short at the moment is on CMS based website editing ... or even Blogger itself. Here I could type only title in Hindi and on the main content this

Taliban, Maoists ... same things but different names

2009-04-23T11:17:00.002+06:00

Driving and thinking is not advisable but this morning while BBC was going on and on about how America now suddenly views Pakistan as a problem, this thought crossed my mind. If we all look at the fundamental level Talibanism, Maoism or any other "ism" comes from dissatisfaction with the ruling regimes.All these movements start as small pebbles thrown in the water and as the size of the pebble

Bye Bye Freebies... Closing of free services!!

2008-12-07T11:38:00.004+06:00

In last one week I have come across atleast 2 bits of news about web 2.0 services closing down. This made me wake up to a possible reality that jus might hit us soon!! what about free services like blogger, picasa etc. are forced to stop !!!It just might happen soon... for sure there is no bail out plan out there for these web 2.0 services.So I have decided to make a list of services closing down

Moral Responsbility

2008-11-30T15:55:00.002+06:00

Congress final got rid of its biggest liability, in the name of moral responsbility, Mr. Shivraj Patil. I hope this brings some sensible changes in government's approach and people's approach.Opposition's approach though doesnt seem to change as much after what all we have witnessed. Mr. Rudy comments as spokesperson of BJP couldnt have been any less opportunistic at a time like this. He seems to

India in Mumbai

2008-11-30T11:46:00.002+06:00

Finally Taj is free and world is back to normal. We can now safely switch from news channels to our daily dose of soaps and cooked up reality shows.It took a Shyam Benegal to remind our news channels that this tragedy was not limited to 5 star hotels, elites, foreigners and slain police officers... it involved hapless unfortunate people at VT station or those police constables who had nothing but

Farewell Anil Kumble!!

2008-11-02T22:37:00.004+06:00

I think a dead test match was made memorable finally made memorable for better reasons than those missed catches and physical contacts etc.. I couldn't help but get all emotional seeing the heartfelt farewell given to Anil Kumble.I am not sure if I will be as emotional when Sourav gets his farewell in Nagpur.Anil Kumble, despite his waining striking powers in last few years, was one of the few

That elusive device

2008-10-27T15:10:00.003+06:00

For last one year I have been a regular visitor to Engadget and Gizmodo. Tech news is also some kinda addiction. We are looking for that dream device all the time. We are easily aroused by the news of Apple's latest events ( thats a loss for the porno sites) and easily deflated seeing that design wizs at apple have decided not to give us all they can. It is amazing how apple can get away with it,

Aarthik Manddi

2008-10-27T14:43:00.003+06:00

Diwali normally is the time when people invite Laxmi home and hope she stays through the year with them. I think rich do it more feverishly than the poor ( who actually need Laxmi more). This year its same for rich and poor, given that Bushonomics has brought us all down to earth. Stock indexes around the world are being monitored for newer lows. Stars of last Diwali may find it hard to smile

Is it tough to say goodbye to windows?

2008-10-05T00:44:00.003+06:00

Most of my work is done on MacBook these days and I am typing this on Ubuntu machine. All that said, it still is tough to get away from Windows world. Every electronic footprint all around us is most likely to be a windows based one. So it was natural for me to ensure that I have options of windows on my Macbook when it came to me, thanks to generousity from Brij. I used parallels and kept

Bombs and us

2008-07-27T14:03:00.002+06:00

In last 2 days We have been jolted by serial blasts. This time the new set of people are dedicating themselves to make these blasts really serial in nature.It is dreadful but somehow the impact of the blasts doesn't seem to register in our minds. As long as it is a news we watch on tele, we dont seem to get affected by the shock and grief of it. The slack law and order gets away every time behind

Beete jamaane...

2008-03-27T13:50:00.003+06:00

for the old time's sake

2008-03-27T13:40:00.001+06:00

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Is it the day davids got goliaths ?

2008-01-19T16:05:00.000+06:00

As i write this India has floored Australia in Perth and an unknown Tipsarovich has taken Roger Federer to 8-9 in fifth set!!!Roger might get out of this one but surely we are seeing another Serbian stake his claim to world fame in Tennis. There is this steely look in his eyes and has a game to match. He has unnerved federer like no other ...not even Nadal.As for Aussies, I think this win has

Living in the times of 9% growth...

2008-01-15T09:22:00.000+06:00

Actually when one is trying to settle down in a smaller town in these times of heady growths it is difficult to find the right mix between optimism and frustrations.Ever since we have come to settle down in Dehradun it has been a mixed bag. Everytime we get our hope balloons up there comes a frustration puncturing it flat.Maybe it is just that we expect a lot but things are not changing quite as

In hindsight...

2007-04-25T11:04:00.000+06:00

Last night seeing Srilanka play the semifinals to a scripted perfection it was impossible not to think again about what went wrong with indian cricket. The selection of Greg Chappel over Tom Moody was possibly an emotional one as we indian fans and cricket administrators are prone to hero worship instead of cool calculated thinking about performance analysis.A few things really stand out in

Kabootarbaazi

2007-04-24T15:41:00.000+06:00

I think every real kabootarbaaz worth his while should take offence to this new use of term which describes age old hobby. Once a royal and nawabi hobby of north indians, i remember it from the childhood memories of small town like Moradabad in UP. Coming to think of it, there is that classic hollywood movie of Marlon Brando "On the waterfront" where our hero spends his most humane moments with

Jahnavi... a riddle or ridicule ...?

2007-04-20T11:59:00.000+06:00

I think before this morning Abhi Aish wedding was going quite listless before kahani mein twist entered with slitted wrist. I really dont know who to sympathize with in this whole story. What followed in the press conference was really big time entertainment and mockery of journalism. Whole of media was out there in full force and in matter of hours they dug out her life history, they dug out all

Jerry McGuire......?

2007-04-09T11:24:00.000+06:00

"Show me the money" was maybe the most memorable line for everyone from Jerry McGuire. One of my most favourite movies of all time and not for this line. But off late everybody has been feeling the lasting impact of this line and not the real spirit of this movie. Show me the money is offcourse true, who wouldnt want money? But how much money is enough? That reminds me of another line from Wall

Just not cricket

2007-04-08T18:05:00.000+06:00

Who owns indian cricket? is it the BCCI the so called the body running indian cricket? Is it the so called super stars of indian cricket who tend to falter at the alter so often? Or is it the vociferous ex cricketers who voice more opinions than runs they had scored all their lives? Or is it millions ( sorry the billion as somes blues pushers would love to say) of indian cricket fans who are win

Country India??

2007-03-26T13:53:00.000+06:00

Its all team India .. team India !!! what happened to country India??Is cricket only one of our woes ??

What are we becoming?

2007-03-26T13:02:00.000+06:00

i wish we would go back to the days of 1983 when we didn't have so many TV news channels amplifying the news to such high pitch harangue. Specially about cricket. I would rather settle down for just the news than these "match ka mujrim kaun" type of lynch shows.If one were to judge these protesters performance in their lives with similar standards then I guess none would have their houses intact

Galleries Galore...

2007-03-13T16:01:00.000+06:00

Its the best of the times for consumer of Web 2.0 i think. Its raining social networks, photo galleries with free space offer. I had tried flickr before but in free accounts they dont give much. Now yahoo seems to be sprucing its house after learning from flickr acquisition. its getting better i think. I have been getting multiply links as well from friends. I did try that too.But so far the

Indian Highway..

2007-02-02T02:16:00.000+06:00

Finally I am able to shake off the inertia..last few months have been full of trips around north India...here are some nice sceneswish it was this easy to travelHmmm a democratic country ...!!we may not have multilane highway.. but we have surely multi lane trafficand there comes the good old enterprisefinally a khaakee .. but is he helping ?i think thats the best place to be in

Finally One Good News

2006-10-14T02:47:00.000+06:00

I think whole of Bangladesh should celeberate it more than their Cricket Team's win. Yes finally newspaper in the morning would not be drawing my eyes to broken factories, corruption, killings and 2 coalitions trying to tear the country apart.Yes for most of the foreigners bangladesh was known for its poverty and for the informed ones it stood also for idea of micro credit story. Micro credit

The Comic project..

2006-09-29T17:32:00.000+06:00

thanks Mukesh for digging this gem.whole of my childhood was spent hunting, sharing, buying, begging comics :)and now thanks to technology here we have another shot at it....or a chance to introduce next generation to the romance of these old comic books...i had read more of these in hindi.. hoefully will get my collection and add to this somedaylink is http://thecomicproject.blogspot.com/

Poor Kailash Kher!!!

2006-09-28T22:22:00.000+06:00

poor kailash kher tried his best to speak about his philosphy of music, sufi etc...but this pretty looking news hostess of zee tv who looked like battery operated remote controlled song request machine, would not let poor soul expound more than 5-6 sentences and would butt in with song request. she was like a dj playing kailash kher live on TV:)and to make it worse while poor Kher was speaking

Mac... i am loving it.. BUT....someone change these batteries please

2006-08-31T00:19:00.000+06:00

Got a new Macbook Pro... thanks to Brij !!new experience and all was going more or less cool..then had first brush with heat of Macbook... thank god these batteries dont blow up on you...but they do generate enough heat.. i guess those guys who made eggs on it werent lying...till then i bravely stuck in .. but then 3 times comp went blank on me..after bit of peer consulting... i paid attention to

Living dangerously....?

2006-07-30T14:00:00.000+06:00

It has been just 19 days since the terror attacks on Mumbai trains...dead are being mourned and horrific pictures are slowly receding to the time passages as sands of new daily headlines keep pushing them into deeper recesses of mind.Was reading brij's post about heightened security as an after thought in India and got to thinking about the dates when these major attacks have happened in India.

Ershad... Ershad ...Ershad !!

2006-07-30T12:50:00.000+06:00

Politics is a dirty word in subcontinent and then one wonders why? Cliches like politics makes strange bedfellows will not die a quick death in subcontinent politics.These days in Bangladesh politics there is nothing called untouchable. Everyone has some votebank or the other and main parties i guess have eroded their base themsleves so much that they lack confidence to face elections

Zidane...genius!!! (a disgraced hero ??)

2006-07-10T15:38:00.000+06:00

Last night stage was set for grand farewell to genius that goes by name of Zinedine Zidane. Malouda earned a penalty in early stages and genius stepped up to take the penalty, sends Buffon scurrying to his left, hits the ball, ball hits the cross bar's inside and comes crashing down and lands just a feet inside the goal line. Commentators went gaga over the genius of Zidane who so coolly slotted

Free Tibet....???

2006-07-08T20:02:00.000+06:00

For many years I had always explained about my native place as area near Indo-Nepal and Indo-Tibet border. The fact that we have organization called ITBP (Indo Tibetan Border Police) and we have given Tibetan exiles a place in our country and our hearts too, we Indians by and large support Free Tibet cause.But last few years of India shining and change of world order in terms of wild fire spread

Windows... time to close ??

2006-07-07T19:16:00.000+06:00

WGA... That's the latest from house of Bill Gates. His philanthropy it seems doesn't include giving away free windows software to the world. So here he is sending spies down the tube ( picture those machines swooping down into human colony and human ships in Matrix!!! ) and there will pop up euphemism of calling you a thief in sweetest manner possible, "You maybe running a Non Genuine copy of

World Cup ??

2006-07-07T18:15:00.000+06:00

Hmm... so we are down to last 2 from 32 we started with. I dont know if this is refelection of today's world order that last 2 teams in the final dont represent the poor of the world. Essentially out of 32 countries that qualified here we had seen countries from africa and sout america fall behind in the race. Asian representattives werent exactly poor nations as they come from one of the

Rats... chickens ......Cars.......what next ??

2006-06-28T16:39:00.000+06:00

One would have to believe that either all the human characters are finished or hollywood has found new formula of transplanting human drama onto animals and inanimate objects to make big bucks.They have made chickens fly and dance... cars talk and act.. wha next.. maybe next movie will be called tables... chairs... lamp posts :)

Difference of opinion.. in built mechanism against revolt?

2006-06-26T19:40:00.000+06:00

i was watching Big Fight on NDTV. topic was trivial in some way, Ostentatious indian weddings. Debate was lively wher both sides of coin tried to shine more than the other but i dont know if one side did learn from the other in any way.if you look around it is hard not to notice difference of opinion as the driving force for world's existence. democracy that protects and guarantees the right to

Revolution is it .....?

2006-06-04T21:39:00.001+06:00

Million mutinies surely not but a couple there are for sure.Ideas that are destructive and that urge us to act, to think and act.Ideas enacted and shot to ignite the sleeping minds.Minds that are lulled by comforts of free market, ideas that may have died with failed revolutions.Million mutinies one day there will be....just finished watching V for Vendetta. though one doesnt endorse the end and

Back...

2006-05-21T18:31:00.000+06:00

Its been 21 days since my status changed from singlehood to married man....Here i am sitting in front of comp...back to good old ways of working in dhaka...this was supposed to be life changing experience...maybe i will find that out slowly...

A new colour for nation

2006-03-10T17:10:00.000+06:00

Basanti, rang de tu mohe basanti... thats the song making buzz around the nation. Movie does tinge hearts and minds with its flavour of basanti.One of the characters, aslam, says something to the effect that he would never have imagined that someday something would happen in their happy go lucky lives. Something so big that would stir them into action. Something that would change the values of

conversion ..?

2006-02-14T13:49:00.000+06:00

most of my posts are news or tv derivative and this one is no different.this comes from VHP/RSS's latest Shabri Kumbh. these days both these organizations are out to stake their claim on population of this country as their domain. They want all unclaimed hindus on firnges like adivasis to be well and proper cardholding members of hindu community so that these poor souls will not lose their chance

Oh Gowd(a)....

2006-01-20T09:57:00.000+06:00

They say cricket is game of uncertainties and I guess politics is world of uncertain people. Last year it was drama in Jharkhand where BJP took its MLAs for Bharat Darshan ( though Bharat for BJP is the states governed by it only which they are always seeking to extend down south like Aurangjeb) and now we have new year gift from BJP and Mr. Deve Gowda's son.life was going dull, what with the

Movies and the factories...

2006-01-14T19:02:00.000+06:00

Homeward boundI wish I wasHomeward boundHome, where my thought’s escapingHome, where my music’s playingHome, where my love lies waitingSilently for me Everyday’s an endless streamOf cigarettes and magazinesAnd each town looks the same to meThe movies and the factoriesAnd every stranger’s face I seeReminds me that I long to be simon and garfunkel sung these lines many years ago and these have

Collective misfortune ?

2006-01-10T19:45:00.000+06:00

i dread flying... everytime i enter that flight, first thoughts are my prayer to the lord. hoping this wont be my last flight. there is something about the swiftness and sureness of death, the last few minutes of shit in your pants horror that i imagine and associate with the fatal air accidents. i have spent many moments close enough in some rickety and vulenrable looking aircrafts in some

Do you know your shirtmaker any more ???

2006-01-10T19:26:00.000+06:00

Do you know your shirtmaker any more ? or should i say, would you like to know your shirtmaker anymore. Gone are the days when your clothes came from trusted family tailors who knew your measurments just by looking at you. Gone are the days when your clothes used to come out freshly off the tailor's machine and they were hemmed by their swift fingers or buttons were handstitched in front of you

New Calendar

2006-01-01T15:23:00.000+06:00

hmm Jan 1st ... 2006 !!same dates in a new calendar....ushered in with same revelry as 2005 was...wishes made... resolutions silently intonedhopes renewed....thank god there are these cycles.. these change of calendars..giving us belief that things would be different in this new periodthis new tranche of 365 days...atleast the day one we wake up with hopes...I wish the governments all around the

Year after

2005-12-25T12:02:00.000+06:00

Have been watching the news for last few days and news channels have been doing follow ups on the anniversary of one of the worst disasters in my living memory. It has been a year since tsunami devastated the Asian shores. I can still remember how it was a Sunday brunch where people who didn't know the gravity of it all, including me, were discussing as to how there were some tremors and

Foggy days ... Foggy ways

2005-12-25T11:39:00.000+06:00

I think foggy days in north India have coincided just in time with foggy ways in which Indian cricket team gets selected. Every Indian cricket team selection invites plenty of opinions. This time it was specially so given the fact that so much drama had been created before selection over Ganguly's career. Drama and episodes were so interesting that it looked straight out of Ekta Kapoor 's

Stray thoughts

2005-11-30T11:17:00.000+06:00

Was watching last ODI between SA and India. After Gambhir's grave miscue what followed was the Sehwags hits and misses. While he missed some good and bad balls...he played one extraordinary over of action against Pollock. The shots were so ruthlessly executed that Pollock seemed resigned to fate knowing little how fate would smile on him again. Alas luck didn't help SA all the way neither did

Why cant a woman be more like a man ?

2005-10-23T17:00:00.000+06:00

professor higgins uttered those lines in frustration i guess. but really why ?i was wondering as to what makes people have different perceptions as men and women?is this our physiological make up and functions that herd the men to think in one way and women in the other?i guess that was largely the case in last century when roles were so deeply divided but today when men and women actually

Snapshots Dhaka

2005-10-19T10:08:00.000+06:00

over the period of time i have come across some interesting scenes in dhaka...P1010022Originally uploaded by krautela.More shall follow in future ..............or u can see them all on my flickr

Hearts are not shaken maybe

2005-10-18T17:57:00.000+06:00

Last night caught NDTV's program on Kashmir earthquake ( I think it is not appropriate to divide the pain into occupied territories). Barkha Dutt was speaking to people in the valley and maybe trying to get their voices heard. She made observation that the corporate India hasn't reacted as fast and as much as it did in case of the Tsunami.Though I have the disadvantage of being far away from the

A Team that never was

2005-10-17T13:06:00.001+06:00

Ist Innings Total (all out, 65.3 overs, 303 mins) 199IInd Innings Total (all out, 50 overs, 204 mins) 144These two score cards read without context would lead you to believe that a team like Bangladesh or Zimbawegot caught into some unfair fight with stronger teams. But these are the scores of the ICC world XI, handpickedby the expert committee, the best players in the

Rich Man's Fence

2005-10-06T17:32:00.000+06:00

Offlate BBC has been showing news about a border fence in Spanish Moroccan border. When you see the CCTV footage it almost looks like one of those war movie scenes that were made about brave soldiers escaping German prisions during world war II. Only difference here is that these are not prisioners of war but prisioners of poverty. Only that this time they have guards outside the fence and not

Gandhi Ji Specials

2005-10-02T19:26:00.000+06:00

I was watching SUN tv at home recently ( occupational hazard :) ) and they were showing their weekend movie promos during the breaks. The movie was our normal formula india movie with song and dance sequences, logic defying stunts and violence and also ample style a la rajni ( every tamil hero seems to be content to ape him in the name of acting.... gone are the days when people used to follow

Roof of the world

2005-09-25T18:51:00.000+06:00

Yesterday I got a mail from my cousin. I guess that's as mundane as getting your morning newspaper ( though that's not mundane in some parts of the world these days). My cousin had been gone on the trip to her village which in Nepal ( Our community is spread across the Indo Nepal border) and I wasn't expecting to hear from her for atleast 1 month till she made it down to the plains of Uttaranchal

Mom and Motorcycle Diaries

2005-09-25T16:48:00.000+06:00

Last night Dhaka was laced with the series of some serious thunder and shower experience. Just when AB was steering KBC2 through into the lakhs zone with one of the very few south indian contestant ( hopefuls is better word I guess) our cable TV feed was struck down by wrath of the gods.With nothing better to do I put on the Motorcycle Diaries ( which was somehow not getting its turn in my hectic

wild flower

2005-09-23T09:44:00.000+06:00

I was reading in rajesh jain's emergic.org about how the entrepreneurship in India is not taking off and the reason suspected was the cushy jobs and high salaries offered to potential ones by the big (rich) companies ( multinationals).as is the way of the world to pluck the beautiful flowers from the wild and then to put them in the vase on a beautiful pedestal next to some beautiful painting.

SECULARISM

2005-09-16T16:47:00.000+06:00

Being a Hindu is such a convenient thing....you don't have to know the whole drill in your daily life..when one is in India the services of priests etc is always available to perform the religious rites and I guess Hindu religion is one of the few that require holi blessings for all things in life.So this morning I had to get a small pooja done for the new office. Normally we have one of our

Dhaka Bombs

2005-08-17T17:43:00.000+06:00

In one day Bangladesh has been , reportedly, hit by 48 separate small bomb explosion incidents.One has been reported within a kilometer radius from where I work, close to US embassy!! The whole city has been gripped by fear, phones were buzzing all around. Everyone asking everyoneelse, rumour mills in full swing. Some 40+ injured are reported and no deaths, but the minds have been stung. It is

ID15

2005-08-15T10:29:00.000+06:00

It has been more than 15 years since I had attended any independence day functions. Yesterday I received the mailer from Indian high commission informing that a fucntion will be held by high commission with flag hoisting and all that goes with it. I was just toying with the idea to go and see what it would be like as the old school memories had been rekindled. Then in the night another expat

Rehash

2005-08-09T12:17:00.000+06:00

There was this nice post on Rambling Monolgues which inspired me to recount my similar experience ( years back )... since monolguist did bestow the comment with a smile i thought it would be worthy of rehashing and sharing with a few of you who by some cosmic coinicidence land on my blog every once in a while...-------------this reminded me of my funny experiences in second year engg. as usual me

struggle

2005-07-23T21:55:00.000+06:00

for last 30 minutes this struggle has gone on...I am trying to add a few things to my template...all gets done and then when i go back to blog..voila, this refuses to go to my latest post and keeps going back to earlier one ...now i am wondering as to if prayers to gods upabove will work or i have to find a new devious ploy to fool this binary hulk of technology!!

Home made food

2005-07-23T17:51:00.000+06:00

As we are weaned away from the natural source of human nourishment, we go through the years of naturalization process of learning to eat manmade ( woman made in true sense) cuisine which gets imprinted in our minds as home made food for rest of our lives.Whatever be the background, religion, caste, nationality most people do tend to rave about this home made food until their dying day. Men go

what's it about?

2005-07-19T00:00:00.000+06:00

is life about experiencing the cornucopia of the emotions ?( like doing all the drugs there are and as much as possible ?)is it about attaining some kinda of permanence ...?is the quest for nirvana, a quest for nothingness that will open mystery of all that there is ?is it about the even keel.... ?a sad news... and I resonate in the wave of sympathy...and then as I step into another set...there

2005-07-09T18:20:00.000+06:00

What is it about London news that still bothers me?I have been hearing differing point of views…My cousin : there are thousands dying on the planet specially in Iraq/ Africa/ middle east.. only when it happens to London and Newyork world seems to take note.News : Blair and Queen keep saying that London will go on.. British way of life will go on…. Terrorists will not be able to deter our way of

Whose war is it

2005-07-07T23:32:00.000+06:00

Last night I slept with overdose of London's joy .....this morning also the news kept going on about it ....for me the day was full of my problems as usual...whole day kept going around with my colleagues trying to find the silver linings thru this murky cloud of my problems...came home all weary and down....looking for solace on TV screen..flipping channels... came across breaking on CNN news...

One man show

2005-07-04T12:00:00.000+06:00

Normally sporting arena is one of the competitions and rivalaries...There have been only a few teams and players that have dominated their sports for a long period of time....A few examples from the past have been West Indian team under Clive Loyd in cricket, Sergei Bubka in pole vault, or a Bull run in NBA, or Ferrari-Schumacher's brief domination (I maybe a bit less informed about the other

the championship worth watching

2005-07-02T23:24:00.000+06:00

I caught the ladies singles final just as when Venus was hanging tooth and nail out there..I rushed home from office .. and oh boy was it worth it...the sheer tenacity with which Venus was hanging in there...fighting her own unforced errors.. breakpoints.... matchpoints...( as I am writing this England and Australia have managed to make the final a nailbiter..)and thru all this Davenport was

Tennis & samba

2005-07-01T10:28:00.000+06:00

I guess this week was blessed one....haven't seen Brazilians play with such flair and abundance in a long time...Argentines looked like a second grade team for some time there....I think Ronaldinho has been a quiet, unassuming and above all noncontroversial influence on world football in last few years...and this tournament establishes him as leader of his troops as wellthen there was women's

blog for who?

2005-06-03T10:03:00.000+06:00

i was wondering if bloggers are the only ones to read blogs...if rest of the world just goes on with or without....so far all my instincts suggest that except for a few articles here and there..a few converts here and there... majority of blog readers maybe from the blogging communityother day flipping through channels i caught one line from "finding forester"it goes... "writers write so that

Second chance

2005-05-26T16:31:00.000+06:00

Like all of us who are forever trying to undo the mistakes of the past...I guess the cricketers also should get second chance in one day internationals(though given the form of some ... even second chance would do no good )what i think is that one day internationals in cricket should be split into 25 overs & four innings..that way each team gets a chance to strategize... and improve /fight

Hoping this is a original of mine -1

2005-05-09T18:20:00.000+06:00

Every revolutionary is a traditionalist in making ?

wish i could

2005-05-08T13:08:00.000+06:00

how i wish if i could blog the thoughts as they came to me..they come far and few and then they are gone ..poooooop!!lost till the time a tiny cosmic convulsion propels them again to the fore..for that tiny little while... I chuckle....wish I could blog all of them..memory sometimes I feel is a huge misnomer!!

General Arora

2005-05-06T00:11:00.000+06:00

I have always felt as an Indian that Bangladesh( current generation) has no virtue of gratitude in their ethos.Be it for their own freedom fighters or for those who helped them get it. As for their own freedom fighters or Father of the Nation, I think they all got caught in this political mire and thus got tarnished in the heat of rivalry. This I see every year when the victory day is celeberated

Weird thoughts

2005-05-01T00:09:00.000+06:00

weird Thought 1 :If there were Fat sucking mosquitoes!! How they would be so much in demand!!but then how would they fly? With such heavy payloads!weird thought 2 :when nano technology brings about change in the way we work with computers,when computers would be so tiny and will be connected with us that they will be thought operated almost...!!would anyone ever talk thereafter?fidelity in

Hmm!! Lost in transition!

2005-04-29T19:29:00.000+06:00

Difficult to choose as to what you should write about...even when it is mostly and only yourself who is looking forward to it ..the only thing that comes to mind is jot down what has been hitting me for past few weeks..-came across an article in The Economist which informs that a team of researchers are working on DNA research to help identify genealogy chains. The key to this are two DNA,

Dhaka international airport…..

2005-03-26T11:31:00.000+06:00

Travails of travel thru Dhaka "international airport" With the mention of international airports the pictures of swanky corridors, restaurants, beautiful airhostess shay-shaying their trollies and those big and beautiful duty free shops fill up your mind. But then there are few international airports which serve the purpose of just spewing out people and sucking in people as just some charly

BLOCK!!!!! What to write !!!

2005-03-21T00:27:00.000+06:00

It has been a week since the last post...and I am really clueless as to where the next one is coming from ...week has gone by ...another year has passed me by ...I think it is the first time in my life that I have started to feel the age...till now it was just another year gone by .. now it makes me look as to how many years do I have left...one of the Indian friends left for India ....

Lighten up

2005-03-13T16:59:00.000+06:00

friend of mine commented that my writing has become a bit too broody!!so what better to lighten things up than cricket....as oscars have already become a passeand the hindi movie scene is bleak.. as nothing brighter than "black" has shown up...so what about cricket...how about smiling assassin losing his killer instincts .. right when he was supposed to deliver the last nails in the coffin....how

2005-03-13T16:28:00.000+06:00

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

Democracy/ Human Rights

2005-03-12T15:07:00.000+06:00

I was watching BBC program, Question Time Shanghai. There was discussion centered around human rights issues and what struck me was, what is the essential thing about human rights I think it is always the question of issues of minority against majority.. Question of ruled ones against rulers…. We human beings have been thru many experiments

3 Nations

2005-03-11T01:15:00.001+06:00

An Indian Dream that was .... One nation demanding its freedom from the other and it got that at the cost of its body and soul being carved out .. A 2 nation theory.... that has resulted in 3 nations so far.. I think English stayed true till the end to their leitmotif ruling policy .. divide and rule they couldn’t rule anymore but divide they did.... <

so far away from me

2005-03-05T12:05:00.000+06:00

sitting in dhaka these days is like setting yourself in exile...all we do is think about production of garments, figting with suppliers to meet delivery datesall the excitement seems to be happening at indian shores...be it farcical elections and government forming....or our ingenious FM producing his canny budgets... ( in danger of being nicknamed 10Rs FM)or Sania shining ...Karthikeyan cruising

2005-02-28T23:15:00.000+06:00

a lake side view in dhaka...

games and players

2005-02-21T15:03:00.000+06:00

last night .. it was really late .... and i happened to catch a match between federer and ancic on TVit was re-run of the seminfinal of Rotterdam openi had seem whole of last year federer play like a man possessed...i dont know if anyone shares my opinion ...the way he was able to manufacture shots from nowhere ... in the hitherto mechanical world of men's tennis...i went from admiration to

begining

2005-02-20T17:54:00.000+06:00

this is my second time around with blogging experiment..though i titled it words are all i have got...but as it turned out ... even words deserted me for sometime....last few days, reading blogs all around....and then devouring creative works of other people..it seems words have deigned to pay me a visit...as i write the most powerful memory is the movie i saw last nightit was JULES ET JIM by