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Morgan Stanley's The Little Green Book 2008-07-02 11:49:19 It seems MorganStanley
is serious about eco-friendliness and conservation. Here's their little green book which I think is a valiant effort at energy conservation. I think every one of us can...
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Commuters in an Autorickshaw! 2008-07-02 07:00:09 Imagine what sort of people you come across on your daily commute to work. People who drive or are driven to work I would advise you to commute by train, you know, public transport and save this...
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Man about Town 2008-07-02 05:55:14 Been wandering around town and these are images I caught:
This lingerie maker is taking things a bit far, methinks! There's a light inside the mannequin!
This is the crowd...
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DNA Covers Caferati Meet 2008-07-01 06:18:48 Had a great time at the Caferati meet on Sunday, the day before. S. Surekha was there to cover it for the daily newspaper DNA. Here's the link. Quote:
"Caferati arose out of the need to meet, listen...
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Sam Bahadur Is No More! 2008-06-30 08:13:21 No, I didn't know Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw, but I lived in an era when he was considered a hero, a larger-than-life figure, may be, the last of the straight-talking, upright officers of the...
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Morning Musings; Morning Raga, Whatever, but I Am Feeling Grumpy! 2008-06-27 22:29:01 The markets are falling. It’s all coming down. From 20,000 to 13,000 is a steep fall by any standards (53 per cent). Oil prices are rising. Panic buttons have been pressed. Companies are cutting down...
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Bill Gates Shutting His Gate at Microsoft? 2008-06-27 03:41:36 "After a two-year transition," says this article in Economist, "Bill Gates
prepared to step down from the day-to-day running of Microsoft
, which he founded in 1975. He remains chairman and will be...
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Amitabh on Why "We" Are So Mediocre 2008-06-26 01:42:33 Says the patriarch of the Indian movie industry, the one man icon whose mug appears in every newspapers, magazines and channels in this blogpost:
"Because of the announcement of the Reliance...
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Too Tired and Sleepy to Blog! Zzzzz! 2008-07-20 11:09:56 Anup and Princy
I have to blog something today. Google rankings you know. I have now reached the six-figure level and have a lot of catching up to do. I am too tired and sleepy. Yet, I must blog,...
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I Am a Malayalee 2008-07-20 04:07:04 Friend Sanjeevan said I must see this video "I am a Malayalee" which he says is hilarious. Just to prove I am not a bigot, a narcissus, a jingoist I am posting the video here. Judge for yourself, I...
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My Latest Story and Poem 2008-07-19 06:02:47 My latest poem "Jahanpanah Bahadur Shah Zafar - The Last Mughal" inspired by William Dalrymple's book "The Last Mughal" appears here in my poetry blog.
My latest short story "Seema and Preet", an...
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Carless in Mumbai 2008-07-18 23:02:29 Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";...
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What About Some Old Fashioned Love? Is It Dead? 2008-07-18 13:48:22 Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";...
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Stand-up Comedian Shakeel 2008-07-16 13:26:26 Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;...
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Fellow Benchmate Sanjeevan 2008-07-16 04:14:37 It's Sanjeevan's constant complaint that I do not publish pictures of his. So here he is, my class mate, and bench mate (yes, we used to share a bench), and now big shot "chief manager" of India's...
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Links for 2008-07-15 [Digg] 2008-07-16 00:00:00
Open Manhole of Bombay
The Bombay mayor said there aren't open manholes in Bombay. However I did some investigations of my own with my cellular phone. I found two open manholes.
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Caught in a Traffic Jam a Few Miles Long 2008-07-14 12:41:52 I didn’t quite realize the extent of the mess. I was on the way to Thane via Kanjurmarg and since the company’s transport was available, I decided to take it. The bus crawled along the Powai Lake and...
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Open Manholes of Bombay 2008-07-13 07:33:59 This open manhole in Nerul is full of shit, as you can see.
The second one is on a busy road in Andheri East. There's no warning signs, no indication that there's an open manhole ahead. If it's...
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A Day that Began Badly... Arushi Murder Case - A Case of Overkill? 2008-07-12 14:08:26 Had an interesting day. Began badly, but gradually I kept the faith, worked hard and am now in a position to tell all. So here goes:
One of those days: woke up in a tizzy with wife complaining that...
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A Day That Began Badly... Arushi Murder Case - Overkill? 2008-07-12 13:48:38 Had an interesting day. Began badly, but gradually I kept the faith, worked hard and am now in a position to tell all. So here goes:
One of those days: woke up in a tizzy with wife complaining that...
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More on Commuting.... 2008-07-11 08:06:36 More on commuting. By the by this blog is turing into a commuting special of some sort, don’t you think?
Yesterday I was deeply into Salman Rushdie’s “Enchantress of Florence” and lost all track of...
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Back from the Brink! 2008-07-09 12:47:45 Ganga in a reflective mood, back from the brink of the netherworlds, in which, first of all, he doesn't believe. Here he is at the window of his Chembur bungalow when the morning light streamed in...
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Shutterbugs Rejoice! Filthy Lucre Is Waiting at Flickr! 2008-07-09 00:10:32 Those of you (includes me too) who are shutterbugs, lenseyes, and click-happy can now rejoice. Getty Images, the premier image licensing agency has tied up with Flickr
to licence images. Which means:...
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Dear Lalloo-ji, "Aap Kaise Ho?" 2008-07-08 12:48:43 It was the usual commute back home today. Just the usual faces, avoiding eye contact, keeping faces blank. Then one passenger mentions how he is sitting on a bump in the seat. Yes, I say, I have sat...
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The Future of Books and Newspapers 2008-07-07 12:26:19 It's the future of the book as we know it. It's the future of a lot of things like a wrap around computer screen. You could check emails with it and then roll it and keep it in your pocket.
Readius...
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A Dry Antagoinistic Place.... 2008-08-05 23:47:17 Just finished reading Salman Rushdie's "The Enchantress of Florence" and towards the end this is this passage which I find very relevant to India today.
Emperor Akbar is evacuating Fatehpur Sikhri...
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Caferati Fourth Anniversary - Part Two, Alas, Not to Be! 2008-08-04 13:22:56 I wrote a lengthy, and oh! so witty Part Two
of the "Caferati Fourth Anniversary
" and out goes the power, and I can't recover any of what I had written. Such are the vagaries of electronic...
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Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the Saga Continues.... 2008-08-03 06:51:36 In this article friend, journalist and writer Annie Zaidi writes about the injustices that have been done to the people of Bhopal by Dow Corporation. The company continues to function in India...
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Caferati's Fourth Anniversary Meet 2008-08-02 23:39:38 Caferati, which started with me reading to an audience of around ten people facing the sea at Bandra Bandstand, is now four years old. To celebrate moderators Peter Griffin, Manisha Lakhe and...
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