Book Review: “2 states – The story of my marriage” (No Spoilers)

Just read the latest one by Chetan Bhagat!
And by his own standards, its a very nice book! Fairly gripping (I finished it in non-stop 5 hours), humorous, and easy-flowing, this book describes the life and times of a couple divided by a wide North-South chasm.
On the flipside, the book is written in a very simple [...]

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I’m back!! :-)

Okay, okay, i’ve been outta circuit for quite some time now, I agree….
Was just going through the grinds of life shall I say…and am still, but I am tired of making it an issue, and don’t plan to do so, any longer!!!
Yeah, so what “interesting” stuff was I doing while I wasn’t here? Well, reading, teaching, and watching [...]

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Protected: Just a vent to my feelings!!

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What the hell!!!!

After a tiring and yet ful-fillling saturday (Wednesday- good movie!!, teaching at Eklavya Nyasa, a visit to the Ganpatis of Pune, and a 90 minutes walk from PMC to KP!!!!), I was just beginning to chill at the CCD(Devil’s Own..wowww). Suddenly I happened to glance at the Plasma TV screen, and whhaaattt… SERIAL BLASTS ROCK [...]

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Irony??

Read an article in The Times of India yesterday ( You can read it here ) . It said that Iran leads the list of countries which still allow capital punishment to children and minors. Well, horrifying, yes….. but all the more so, given the fact that Iranian children’s movies are well-known all over the world [...]

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Thought for the day!

Do not devote too much of time thinking about how unfairly you are dealt with at work!
There are many things to be done in life, and work, is just a means of getting the money to be able to do them!

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Ye din bhi beetenge…………….

You know what, just realized that today’s the 20th of May….Just a few days left for the notorious Indian summers to lapse!!!
 
How fast days go by!

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Shahrukh!! Plz don’t do it!!!

IPL, Om Shanti Om, Zee Cine Awards, Kya aap paanchvi pass se tez hain, TV ads, movie ads, awards, ShahRukh Khan is all over it!!! All dailies and tabloids keep flashing his photographs all over their pages!!

I mean, agreed that he is the most charming ambassador any brand can ever get; I too am a bigggg [...]

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Movie Review – Tashan!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Rating: HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHA!!!!!!!
Watch the movie to understand why I am doubling and tripling up with laughter!
On a second thought, don’t! Your reactions might not be as friendly as mine!

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A tribute to the most used product of the decade!!

Guys, wondering what that is?? Yes, it indeed is: Maggi Noodles!!!!!

 Surprised?? Well, enter s/w pros, staying away from home in rented apartments/PG accos. What comes into your mind first when you think of getting a quick bite??
Ofcourse, maggi noodles!!!
What do you think of cooking after a tiring day at office, and your return to home [...]

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Losing my views………

Was reading Sudha Murty’s ‘Wise and Otherwise’ yesterday(yeah, ok…i know its complete review is long overdue….patience guys…..). In one of those stories, Ms. Murty asks her son what he thinks are the 3 most revolutionary things of the 20th century, and he gives a really beautiful answer…..
It was then when i realized, that I would [...]

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The life of an IT pro!!!!

A recent observation made by me and a few others, underlined the fact that more than 50% of the applicants to an HR specialty B-School were IT pros…. Software??? HR??? What’s the connection man???
Just shows that we guys want to get out of our field, in any way we can!! lol!!!

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Cycling away, to health and wealth!! :-)

Last saturday, Krunal, Hemanth and the other enthusiastic and enterprising members of the Green Brigade of my office organized a cycling expedition from our Mangaldas office to TRDDC office at Hadapsar. The purpose was promoting cycling as a pollution-free and healthy way of commutation. And although I had been working till 2:30 pm the nite [...]

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The world’s a small place!!

I had been to Denmark sometime back (I know, I know, a blog about that is long overdue….but alas!! Let’s take that up some other time and continue this story for the time being…), and bought a T-shirt for my father with Copenhagen and Denmark written on it, along with a cute print of a [...]

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Bollywood movie dialogues are getting crispier!!

That Bollywood movie dialogues are all about ‘inspired’ (read as copied) lines,is a popular notion amongst most of us, and not without a reason! There was a time, and a long one, wher bollywod dialogue never recovered from the shackles of typical romance and typical comedy and typical action and typical revenge dialogues!!
But no longer!! Of late, [...]

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Today’s random quote(but oh so effective!!)

Was browsing igoogle today, and noticed today’s Einstein Quote of the Day. It said,
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results!!
What a line!!! and so relevant for me today!!!

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Valentine’s Day is cominggggg!!!!

Yeah, so it’s the 13th of February, just a day to go for the Valentine’s Day!!! “So why are you bothered??”, quips my colleague at office, “Aren’t you single, and happily so????”
Goddd!! colleagues at work!!!! relatives!! friends’ mummies!!!! It seems that the only job remaining on their ‘to-do’ lists is to find a suitable match for ‘ellligible’ [...]

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Moods!

Confused, Happy, Sad, Angry, Irritated, Anticipating, Waiting, Frustrated, Apprehensive, Curious, Excited, Fidgety, Agitated, Helpful, Helpless, Confident, Smiling, Crying, Laughing, Pleading, Badgering, Pestering, Consoling, Hopeful, Hopeless, Good, Bad, Deserted, Scared, Resigned!
The moods I have gone through, in the last 2-3 months!!!!! In no particular order. Oh what a time it was, is, and will be!!! <sigh!!>

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Perspectives, perspectives……… (4)

 Hasn’t anybody heard the saying, that “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it!” ??Even if they haven’t, can’t they think about it themselves??
Is it necessary that a person who’s happy-go-lucky doesn’t feel bad?? Can’t it be that he does feel bad, and would also appreciate some kind words or deeds; [...]

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What a way to ring in the new year!!!

A group of men molesting two females in Mumbai!!
Another group assaulting some couples at Pune!!
And both of these incidents happening on the new year’s eve; when the whole world awaits the new year, with joy and hope!!
What the hell is going on here?????

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Knock Knock!!!! Who’s there?? It’s me, myself!! :-)

Hey all!!
First of all, please accept my most sincere apologies for not being on the blogging scene regularly. If I’d asked myself why, there wouldn’t be any particular reason I could give. I was busy, I was pre-occupied with things, I was not in the mood or the right frame of mind to write….. No excuse is [...]

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Yipppeeee!!!! 5000!!!

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Life is unfair!!! Get used to it!!!
Enjoy the happy moments to the fullest….and ignore the not so happy ones completely!!
And most of all, keep smiling….If nothing else, it atleast keeps u cheered!  :-)

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In search of the First Citizen of India………

Once every five years, our country experiences an embroglio over who should be (s)elected as the First Citizen, i.e. the President of India. This year too, a lot of bandwidth, that of print, television, internet, and human mind as well is being used up over the discussion about who should be the next President of [...]

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Hellooo!! M Back!! :)

Hi everyone!! I am finally back on the blogging scene after  loong loong time!!(OK….admitted that the above line makes me look as though I’ve been a regular professional blogger, which am not, just a trivial one…like a small glow worm trying to find its feet in a huge diamond mine….OK…also admitted that this above line sounds [...]

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Three cheers to the Karnataka Government!!

After a long time, got to read something positively good (read that as – not irritating, not depressing, not infuriating!) in the papers. The Karnataka Government has planned a Bill on making it mandatory for private hospitals to attend to the victims of accidents and other emergencies, rather than sending them to Government Hospitals, or [...]

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The reservation issue —– yet again!!!

“Stay on quota will stay: SC” screamed the headline of the TOI today… “Whoa, finally!!” was my reaction.. I was glad that finally, the Supreme Court in its “final” judgement, ruled out any possibility of the stay on 27% reservations for OBCs being implemeted in central educational institutions in the 2007-2008 academic sessions, being reversed.
But [...]

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