Bangalore had always been the city of my dreams. It had captured my imagination a very long time ago, right during the innocent days of my childhood itself, long before the IT boom that created the so-called “Silicon Valley” of India and the mindless frenzy of greed and destruction turned it into the fustercluck it…
Assuming that you are a regular human being living on planet Earth, you must be pretty proud of yourself. You are “you“, the being, the person, who has achieved so much so in life and are part of the race that rules the planet and has subdued everything else! You even have defeated the evil…
(This post was written when the original ridiculous name was announced, long before the team was renamed “Kochi Tuskers Kerala”. This was the most widely read post on my blog, and hope it has contributed something towards the name getting changed :)) Some things are just bound to fail. Ever since its inception, the Kochi IPL team has…
You are older than you think! Making you think many things happened “recently” is a trick played by your sub-conscious to make you think you are young and kicking. Inspired by XKCD’s Epic diagram that makes people think they are old based on movie release dates, and then 40 things that make you feel old,…
Matrix Revolutions, the third installment of the Matrix trilogy was disappointing to many including me. Many people didn’t like the ending of the series with Neo “dying” and the humans making a pact with the hated, evil machines who were keeping human beings as power-generating batteries for a thousand years. But I was fine with that…
I don’t think anyone in India needs any introduction to the social menace called autorickshaws, especially so in Bangalore. They and their drivers are Bangalore’s universally most despised creatures, the hate spreading across class, income and social status, bridging even the great IT/non-IT divide. Much of the complaints against them are on what they charge (if they agree…
Aarey is a neighbourhood in the northern Mumbai suburb of Goregaon. Aarey houses the famous Aarey Milk Colony and is famous for being a green zone, a lung space full of trees and greenery, a treasure indeed in a world where cities are incessantly being rid of their green cover under the guise of “development” by unscrupulous…
Watched the financial-thriller-drama movie “The Big Short” the other day. As you might already know, the movie is on the sub-prime crisis of 2007-08 and resulting Great Recession, about four guys who looked around and predicted that the US housing market was a bubble which would crash in the imminent future, taking banks and the…
Right now, I am feeling incredibly overcome with this sense of overwhelming, stupendous, inexplicable feeling of utter insignificance, that numbing feeling of nothingness that makes you question the core your very existence and it’s validity on an astronomical and philosophical scale. What are we? Why do we think of us as “Masters of the Universe?”…
Goldeneye was the move that resurrected James Bond and gave him a fresh lease of life without losing his identity in a newly globalized and Cold War-less world. The movie was fast, fun and a delight to watch and most of that thanks should go to Pierce Brosnan JAMES BOND – PIERCE BROSNAN (First Appearance)…
There is no such thing as customer service in India as we all know. All that goes on in this country under the guise of “providing services” is just a sham of organized ripping off of unsuspecting people of all their money under the guise of something or the other, and helped on by the…
For many, especially the neo-liberated Indian in small town India, buying a car is a dream come true, the process of acquiring it is a dream process come true and car salesmen are dream merchants. Whatever people might say, I believe that globalization and capitalism have liberated us. It it were not for it, you…