The Post Which Laughs At People – I

People, eh? What can you say?
Most people are funny. Before you go around jumping to conclusions about my sense of humour (or the apparent lack of it), let me clarify. When i say they are funny, i dont mean “They have a great sense of humour. They really are funny! Lets laugh WITH them. Ha, [...]

The Post Which Saw A Movie

This Post Includes –

A review of the first thirteen minutes of Dhoom 2
Some flak aimed in the general direction of dumb hindi movies.
And more of the same.

I have a confession to make – I am not a movie person. I do not watch too many movies. Give me a TV serial, if its [...]

The Post Which Had A Rude Shock

This Post Includes –

An angry rant about the ridiculous HSSM allocation scheme.
An analogy with hot dancing girls in a school play/dance.
The reason why I got a rude shock.

Every sem, every single sodding sem, something always has to be wrong with the HSSM allocation policy. Unlike other courses, where the add/drop is a very [...]

Independence day @ IIIT

How did you celebrate the Independence Day in your school? Remember all the kids in neat, fresh uniforms and the PT-guy with the weird voice shouting at them? Remember the compulsory attendance, and the teachers being all tense and hyper? Remember the flags, sweets and what-not they distributed? Remember the boring speeches made and the [...]

The 3CFF and the Literary Club

Yes, i was so darn lazy to put out posts the past fortnight, this is almost three posts rolled into one (more muck for one click?). Anyway, on the 29th and 30th, the 3CFF was held. The 3CFF? The Tri continental Film Festival or something, its full form. Given my dislike for documentaries, i was [...]

more news – part I – reservations

as always, and perhaps sadly, something wierd/stupid/irrational/fodu which irks or interests you in some or other random way seems to keep happening. was gonna use whack instead of fodu, but ive been getting enough flak for just saying it once a day. anyway, this and the following two posts are on three things for the [...]

and in todays news…

having left the habit of reading a newspaper a couple of years ago, and relying purely on google news means i cant look at the pretty pictures in bombay times. oh, no, wait. that was back at home. its hyderabad times i have to 'read' now, innit? nothing worth looking at in there. sad. but [...]

laws of seniority

how often is it in life that a guy has to change his environment? here, environment meaning his school, workplace, house, whatever-not. there are, of course, problems associated with this change. a major one being the people who he meets. when someone new comes into the system, he has to deal with all the people [...]

A whole friggin year!!

My first post in the blogosphere was on the 8th of March, 2005. May have been a stupid post, that one. May have been one of those posts you end up calling “wierd” and actually meaning it. May seem funny, if you look at the futility of the post. Or it may be classified as [...]

what the HELL is in a name?

what is it with these people who want an indianized-name for everything under the sun? is a ‘local’ name so important to the people who live in the renamed places? what is wrong with names like bombay or madras? why cant cities be called bangalore or calcutta? which place has been renamed now?
assam to asom! [...]