My last day in Ban­ga­lore. Tomor­row morn­ing, I leave for Hyder­abad to catch up with good friend, Ruk­shana. I’m hop­ing to see a few sights around the city. A few snap­shots from my trip to Guwa­hati and Cal­cutta. The Brahma­pu­tra river in the evening. The sun is just set­ting. I got my brother-in-law to stop the […]

I started it in June 2002, when I couldn’t find too many Indian blog­gers online. It has grown and grown over the space of one and a half years. And led oth­ers to cre­ate more sophis­ti­cated lists and search engines based on it. I’ve spent count­less hours updat­ing, find­ing new blogs, reply­ing to blog­gers, apol­o­gis­ing for […]

Kiruba posted recently (no perma­link avail­able) about how the rediff.com home page has started to look rather shabby. Now, that I’ve quit, I guess I can have a more objec­tive look at it. The site, and espe­cially the home page, has gone through sev­eral design changes, some pretty good. Some, not quite. It seems to be […]

Since the whole world seemed to have watched the movie, I decided that it was high time that I had a look at what Karan Johar’s lat­est offer­ing was all about. I never got to see KKKG on screen. I caught it much later when they screened it on tele­vi­sion. Walk­ing around MG Road on […]

My mom and dad watch Hindi soaps with gusto. Every evening, back home, I watch with com­plete fas­ci­na­tion as they coor­di­nate their work so that they can tune in to their favourite seri­als. I was out once, and I asked my dad to pick me up at about 9 pm. Can you make it 8.45 […]

A really inter­est­ing two-part arti­cle, by Basab Prad­han, Sr. Vice Pres­i­dent at Infosys Tech­nolo­gies, on why off­shore out­sourc­ing is good for the US and how Indian com­pa­nies should respond to the back­lash. Prad­han writes that the time has come for the gov­ern­ment of India to step into the fra­cas: “Glob­al­iza­tion is a two-way street. There […]

I love watch­ing movies. I can prob­a­bly watch some of my favourite ones (like When Harry Met Sally!) about 7–8 times. Ten times at the most! So when I read about Sukanya’s post about watch­ing Shrek ninety times, I’m filled with pure amaze­ment. Just 10 more views to go before she com­pletes a cen­tury and enters […]

Accord­ing to the Middle-earth Name Gen­er­a­tor — In Middle-earth, Anita Bora was a Stag­ger­ing Elven Maiden. Elven Name Pos­si­bil­i­ties for Anita Bora: Luini­avasiel, Luini­avasien, Luini­avaswen. Hob­bit lass name for Anita Bora: Prim­ula Mag­got from Grind­wall. Ork­ish Name for Anita Bora: Gâb­wûsh the Cruel. I def­i­nitely like the last one. It’s got an evil ring to […]