(Text in blue are links to other pages like Wikipedia explaining more about the highlighted text. (Not ads, never!) You may click on them, linked pages will open in new tabs/windows. Promise :) ) The most widely quoted currency amount in India these days seems to be 1.76 Lakh Crore Indian Rupees (0r 40 Billion US Dollars). The reasons for this…
“Nothing is what it seems!” – Walter Burke (Al Pacino), The Recruit In the mediocre-at-best spook movie ‘The Recruit’, CIA chief trainer Water Burke (Al Pacino) kept reminding his new recruits that in the CIA, “Nothing is what it seems!” In other words, everything is an eyewash, what you see and what you have been told is…
…Continued from Part -1 Ring-Ring-Ring-Ring!! The music/loan-sale/importance reminder routine came to an abrupt end. The sound of the phone ringing at the other end, the fruit of all my hard work, rudely shook me out of my reverie on how I would accomplish the second and more treacherous part of my mission. The machine had been won over, now…
“Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to navigate through the ‘customer care’ innovation of a leading ‘international’ bank and get to talk to a human, make them understand a problem and get it resolved successfully, while staying sane and not using words like ‘supervisor’, ‘consumer court’, general swear words etc. Good luck!” (“This message will…
Director – Todd Philipps Cast – Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan, Jamie Foxx Genre – Road/Comedy/Buddy Watch Because – Galifianakis, Funny lines and moments Dont Watch Because – Tries too hard, Rushed, Unnecessarily long sequences, Missing situational humor, Does not live upto expectations Rating – ♥♥♥ out of 5 VERDICT – As expected, watchable with plenty of hilarious moments…
Director – Brothers Greg & Colin Strause Cast – Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Donald Faison and David Zayas Genre – Sci-Fi/Horror/Zombie?/WTF Watch Becuase – Dont watch, but Special Effects, Air battles are good. Dont Watch Because – Everything else, especially the ‘acting’ Rating – 1/5 (For the honesty) VERDICT – An uninspired and featureless mashup of many alien-sci-fi themed movies with irritating, over-the-top onscreen…
It is a considerable #WIN on many fronts that Indians have taken to reading in droves, again. As I have said in Part 1, (Suggest you go through it, if you havent) a large chunk of the thanks for this has to go to Chetan Bhagat and the other pop-culture type novelists. There is no denying…
So the other day someone said: “The timeline of the history of Indian Fiction can be divided into two: Before Chetan Bhagat and After Chetan Bhagat”. Quite a statement to make, considering the fact that the only other major figure in history who had enough clout to split the timeline of anything was Jesus Christ. But…
The Use and User of Credit Cards – Lifecycle Click on the chart to enlarge, uh, view the chart in a larger screen. Hey, it is easy! You will be screwed any which way. This is the kind of chart you were not taught in IIM (Or any other ‘B-School’). This is real-life management, baby! Infinitely more useful than…
I had initially planned to include this in Part 1 (Read) but this better be treated as a separate unit. This is part 1 explained in more detail, Credit Cards explained, especially on HOW people wind up in Credit Card debt. This is the master plan, folks. The Blueprint for World Domination. The flawless plan of action which can tie…
Be very afraid. Supervillains do exist in real life. And they are not far removed from the Mavel Comics/James Bond cartoony types like Dr.No, Goldfinger, The Joker and Megatron – They have large and pointless facilities, hordes of mindless people working for them and they nurture that evergreen dream of world domination. And have a plan to achieve it. But since Hollywood has shown us that plain old terrorism, nuclear weapons and space-time-morphing…
Mr. Joel Stein is American. Mr. Joel Stein is a writer. Mr. Joel Stein writes in CNN-TIME. Mr. Joel Stein wrote an article on how his childhood town (Edison, NJ) has been ‘invaded’ by Indians and has become unrecognizeable from how it was when he grew up there. TIME published the article and all holy hell broke…