I was sitting with two associates/friends of mine last evening in a restaurant and having a sip or two, and of course discussing many issues and strategies. Behind one of the friend, on a semi-giant TV screen, I could watch the Test match between India and Sri Lanka. There is nothing much to said about […]
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It was last Sunday evening I think, and I was going back home walking thru a nice green park that’s a showpiece of the locality I stay in. I noticed two young boys, aged about 19-20, and a girl standing around one of the benches there. The boys were wearing loose denims and funky T-Shirts […]
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Many Many years ago – circa 2001 – I was introduced to this Chinese restaurant called Osaka, located in a shady corner of Yusuf Sarai. On my first visit to this silent and spaced out restaurant, I must say that I was pleasantly surprised. First of all the food was excellent and extremely reasonably priced […]
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Some days back, I was reading about New India on rediff.com. Let me elaborate. Rediff.com had published the transcript of the speech by Indra K Nooyi, which she had delivered on the completion of 30 years of USIBC. I read the full text of her speech, and for a better part of the read, I […]
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I was reading this week’s India Today and they had a very interesting and important cover story – Ways to stop Global Warming. The magazine summarizes the recently concluded Global Warming Summit headed by Manmohan Singh. Dr Singh and his committee have pledged that they will not exceed the carbon emission limit, and will certainly […]
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I got a call today at around 2:30 PM from WSNY, a New York based radio channel. The Objective of calling: they wanted to interview me on Air in the evening at around 6:30. Topic: Outsourcing of copyediting in India. My instinctive reaction was that one of my friends may be playing a prank […]
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I had wished for a better Sunday. Not a day when I would see India and Federer lose their respective matches. Once Sri Lanka scored 270-odd I had sensed that India would lose this match, because of the Spin threat Sri Lanka had and because of India’s ability to lose crunch […]
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Mantrablogs has recently been bombarded with movie reviews, new and old. I am not too sure if the visitors have enjoyed reading it, because there are not too many comments!
Poetry is one of the sections here that is quite deserted while Movies is blossoming, courtesy Mona and Malvika. I have certainly enjoyed reading their interesting […]
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June 27 was an important day for Microsoft, and potentially for the whole world. One of the 20th century’s most important persons retired from the capacity of CEO of the world’s largest company. Bill Gates was no ordinary man, no ordinary boy for that matter! No boy writes a program at the age of 13, […]
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