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Kerala and Some High Speed Jokes

The best joke of the year so far just came out of the blue one fine morning, splashed across the front page of the day’s newspaper. Seeing the headline, I couldn’t hold ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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Of Insurance Companies and Customer Harassment – A True Story

This is the sad but true story of a mindf***ing real life ordeal I had to go through, trying to get my money back from a private MNC insurance company. A tale of harassment, suffering, ...
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5 Things Stupid People Using Elevators/ Lifts Need to Learn

Stupidity in all it’s forms must be the most visible aspect around us in our daily life and common sense the most absent, especially when it comes to the usage public spaces. ...
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Driving Like Dummies 1 – Traffic in India

India’s roads and driving culture are one for the books. You will be hard-pressed to find a place anywhere on earth where pure chaos and lawlessness prevails on the roads as so ...
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Of Bus Bays and Car Repairs in Bangalore – A True Story

Bangalore is well known for its WTF traffic and crumbling infrastructure, and everyone in the city with a vehicle will have their share of stories of woe to tell. The other day it was ...
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B. Tech Victims

They sell their souls and four years of their life on the promise that they will be bestowed some kind of world-changing abilities of technological mastery, only to realize later that ...
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The Chetan Bhagat Conundrum

Yesterday, India’s uncrowned king of bubblegum literature, Chetan Bhagat, decided to celebrate Father’s Day by recycling an old “locker room” joke about child ...
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The Red Killers of Kochi

The private buses of Ernakulam-Kochi, the mainstay of the city’s public transport options, have progressed from being a menace on the city’s roads to an outright danger ...
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Levels of Corruption

There seems to be a serious misunderstanding on what “corruption” means in India. It seems that we think only politicians and bureaucrats are and can be corrupt, and corruption ...
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Vodafail of a Different Kind

No, this is not a Zoozoo-bashing post but about something that reeks of sheer incompetence and irresponsibility, that should not come from a company like Vodafone. Their new promotion: ...
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