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The hype called IPL

08May08

Take Indian cricket, mix it with Shane Warne, Anil Ambani and Shahrukh Khan, Throw in some cool publicity and bollywood glam, There you have the IPL*. You love it or you hate it, but you cannot ignore it. With all the hype and hoopla, with biggies like Anil Ambani and Shahrukh Khan bidding for Teams, [...]

Filed under: India, Issue, sports | 13 Comments
Tags: BCCI, cricket, indian cricket, Indian Premier League, IPL, Twenty20

The Saga of H1B Lottery

30Apr08

I really never believed in lotteries, cos I was sure I wasn’t gonna win one. And there’s no fun in buying a lottery ticket and waiting for the results when you know you have only 0.01% probability of winning it. I’d rather play Blackjack or poker and loose money than do the same with a [...]

Filed under: Humor, Issue, Life | 26 Comments
Tags: H1B, H1B FY2009, H1B Lottery, H1B visa, US work visa

You can’t learn anything new if you’re thirty.

07Jan08

These are some lines from the movie I like a lot in the recent times, Jab We Met.
Kareena: “Main maanti hoon, har koi jo life me really chahta hain na, use wahi milta hai”
Shahid: “kahan? music se bada passion nahi tha mere life mein”
Kareena: “toh? ab life ho gayi hein tumhari?aise bol rahe ho jaise [...]

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Tags: age, age-restriction, education, learning

Rupee grows stronger, but India ?

28Jul07

“The rupee rose 0.2 per cent to 40.65 against the dollar as of the 5 pm close in Mumbai, according to data compiled by media.” – Re rises, biggest Q gain in 34 years, The Economic times, 2nd July 2007.
This news hit us all. This meant we’ll have higher bills to pay when we swipe our international [...]

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word verification ? Not again !!!

19Jul07

We all knew we could read, and we know we are different from robots. But when we need to prove it – that’s word verification.
Word verification is not the only thing i don’t get right the first time, but possibly the simplest one. Thanks to the Carnegie Mellon University that invented it for the Yahoo! [...]

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The Namesake

07Apr07

I finally watched the much critically acclaimed The Namesake. Identity crisis is something that keeps coming like an unwanted pop-up all the time. And if you live in a country of which you are not a citizen, it comes, stays and makes you feel strange when you dont have it with you. Im not gonna [...]

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The Freedom of Anonymity

02Apr07

The person we are to other people are the words we speak to them

And everyone can’t speak their words, do their acts and think their thoughts without worrying about the existant souls around us who just dont hear but form their opinions about us. There are situations when one wants his voice to get heard [...]

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Dreams

20Jul06

“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one’s dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.” – Sigmund Freud.
“Maybe, dreams are a glimpse into another space, another time where [...]

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Does Name Matter?

15Jul06

In the age of biometric identifications where ones identity seems nothing more than ones finger prints and ones retina scan, what does a mere name signify? well, strangely it still does a lot.
Remember the last time when you heard the name of a visiting guest and you imagined how he would look like, or did [...]

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