“This is 2014!! In these days of all our technology, how could a huge airliner 63 meters long, weighing 145 tons and carrying 239 people just vanish mid-air?” is the general rhetoric echoing all over the internet on the aftermath of the bewildering, mysterious and tragic disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 on its way from…
Dear Suits at Chevrolet India and Generally Motors, How are you guys doing? I know that times are hard and you guys must be struggling hard to fill Gas in your Corvettes and Camaros. That is alright, we all go through these phases. Niceties done, let me get to the point: What the facebook are…
The Ford Ecosport has been without doubt the most awaited car launch in India in the recent times. The radical design and looks of the car, the curiosity generated by revolutionary Ecoboost engine, the promise of a middle-class “urban Mini-SUV” and a tantalizing price tag of Rs.5 Lakh (rumored, but not true) resulted in Bollywood-level…
The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) runs a website that is allows people to book tickets on Indian Railways trains online using their debit or credit cards. Now, why a corporation that should be doing catering is running a ticket-booking website is another question altogether, but this question is rarely asked because there…
“A long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away” said the tagline for the Star Wars franchise when it was launched 36 years ago. If it were today, people would probably think this to be a teaser ad for some mind-boggling feature in an upcoming model of a smartphone being readied for launch in…
The honorable Minister for Railways Sri. Dinesh Trivedi presented his maiden Railway Budget today on March 14th 2012. This budget was expected to be a landmark one, mainly because of the Railways’ enormous fiscal deficit of and industry watchers and everyone else were watching keenly on what the Minister would do to address this. For…
Since it is confirmed to be working, I tried a hand at booking a ticket through IRCTC’s new mobile website. And you know what? I actually booked a ticket! Oh yeah!! It went through without a hitch. This, considering the fact that even a trip to the tea shop will be wrought with obstacles for…
Those who know me will be surprised that I would say this, but I am tired of smartphones. I have run the mobile-phone rat-race in a frenzied pace ever since my first one in 1999, changing some 18 phones (I kept some for only for a few months) over 12 years, always being the first…
(UPDATE: And today, the DCGA has finally suspended Kingfisher’s license. They must now look for other ways at advertising their products) Kingfisher Airlines is in a mess as we all know, and enough has been said about the grounds and reasons for this. Though we can all speculate, the real reason for the failure of…
Facebook is not just a great way to ogle over women in your friends’ friend lists, but is an awesome way to let the world know about stuff by sharing content and links from all over the web (and publicize your blogs, hehe :)) And Facebook has an awesome way of presenting these links on…
It happened again. Apple dumps its stock of soon-to-be-obsolete iPads in India a full year after its launch in the US market, confirming yet again that for them, India is just a dumping ground for obsolete iProducts, lowest on their radar and they are totally so not interested in the booming Indian telecom and IT market where other global giants are hungrily…
(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…