Petrol and the Common Man

Today’s news flash read – “Petrol prices slashed to Rs. 55 in Goa”. For a moment I couldn’t believe what I read. When the prices for this so-called green fuel are going up all over the world and more so all over in India, how could there be a reduction in Goa. Was this just [...]

Dapoli – the weekend getaway

I couldn’t belive my friend when he told me that there was a place in India where we could actually see Dolphins (for real). Frankly speaking I had never heard about Dapoli before, so I decided to use my Computer Skills and Googled about it. And guess what, the Internet actually spoke about this place [...]

The Master Stroke

A lot has been said and written over the past year about Sachin Tendulkar. Or should I say about the retirement of the great man. Should he be playing, should he play only test cricket, should he play the IPL, should he bid goodbye on a high note

Save the Indian National Animal

The header on the website says just 1411 left. A number which should start the bells ringing in your head. The panic button needs to be pushed and some action taken now. If it doesn’t happen it would probably be too late. Think about it our children asking us how our national animal looked in [...]

The new face of Indian Politics

“Indian Politics is a bad game full of corrupt individuals”, “They are all the same”, “They are hand in mouth with each other all are bloody cheats”. These and such many more quotes are often said about the Indian Political Leaders. Medical, Engineering, IT Sector, Management are considered as the white collar jobs, who also [...]

Bharat Bandh – for the Common Man

5th July 2010 was observed as a Bharat Bandh, the whole of India was brought to a stand still thanks to the Opposition partys. A lot of debates and talk shows have already chewed this topic up and have bombarded us with various stats and analysis as to was this Bandh actually needed. So, I [...]

Superstitions

“I was supporting SL, because whenever I supported India they lose, it is a superstition and it worked again today”, were the words of the Man of the Match of the ODI between SriLanka and India at Rajkot, December 15, 2009 (A lot of time ago). The man was Virender Sehwag. Don’t these words get [...]

Filmfare and Facebook

The most anticipated awards of the Indian Film Industry, The Filmfare Awards were shown yesterday on national television. These awards are supposed to be the most prestigious in the industry and people actually make a beeline for them. Also, from the past couple of years they have started to record the performances in camera and [...]

Of Course I Love You

I don’t know how many of you guys have actually read this book, or even know that a book with the above given title exists. But I would vouch for that, because I have finished reading it. The book written by Durjoy Datta and Maanvi Ahuja paints a picture about college life in Delhi. It [...]

Marathi Movie Mania

Hello Folks, The Marathi movie mania has hit me and to be true it has totally grasped me in its clutches. When the Hindi Film Industry aka Bollywood is popping out not so very interesting rabbits from its hat, the Marathi Film Industry (I have no idea what wood  is it called) is just pulling out [...]