Archive for May, 2012
 

 
Mullaperiyar Dam Near Maximum Capacity on Nov 28 2011, Courtesy The Hindu

Mullaperiyar – Nobody Gives a Dam(n)?

Really, not many seem to give a damn about the imminent danger they face.. Even if it is an issue that is poised to become one of the biggest man-made catastrophes the world has ever seen. Call it disinterest, ignorance, apathy...
by vadakkus
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Save Mullaperiyar, Save Kerala and Tamil Nadu!

If reports are to be believed, many parts of the state of Kerala are staring down the barrel of an extinction event-level disaster in the form of a ticking water-time bomb called the Mullaperiyar dam. This disaster, if it happ...
by vadakkus
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“God Save the Dork” (Dork 2) by Sidin Vadukut – Review?

Sidin Vadukut is back with the Dork, and the Dork is exactly as we remember him! “God save the Dork” is the sequel to the highly successful “Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin ‘Einstein’ Varg...
by vadakkus
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The Adventures of Tintin – My Childhood in 3D

With The Adventures of Tintin, Spielberg didn’t just create a motion picture. What he did was to bring my childhood back, alive, on-screen, in 3D. Like the Metallica concert happening in India, this was one other thing I ...
by vadakkus
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Kingfisher Airlines – The Costliest Advertising Campaign Ever.

Kingfisher Airlines is in a mess as we all know, and enough has been said about the grounds and reasons for this. I want to look at this from a different, out-of-the-box marketing perspective. Like, to start with, Kingfisher wa...
by vadakkus
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OMG! Fancy-Number Calendar Dates!!

Human stupidity knows no bounds. An example of this is staring us in the face today where we have another fancy-number date on the calendar. And as it always is when such numbers appear, people are drooling and orgasming all ov...
by vadakkus
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5 Ways the Universe could Kill you the Next Minute

The Universe is an infinitely hugely mindbogglingly unimaginably vastly holy shit unending big space of mostly nothing, where we are even more of nothing, and contrary to popular belief, we do not matter at all in vast schemes ...
by vadakkus
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The Metallica Gig “Bag Debacle” – Responsibility?

Notwithstanding the awesome experience and success it has been, it has now come out that during the Metallica gig in Bangalore on October 3oth, hundreds of people had lost their belongings, meaning bags with gadgets, documents ...
by vadakkus
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Metallica In Bangalore – Ethereal, Unreal, The Memory Remains…

I was there. I was there! I saw them live, in the flesh and heard them play, perform, in their own voice, and with their own instruments, all those songs that I had listened to all these years over and over a thousand times thr...
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