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Its raining crap: November 2006
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Thursday, November 30, 2006. Couldn't believe that the media is devoting so much column centimeters and airtime to comment on Sanjay Dutt's Bombay blast trial verdicts. I don’t want to spend time again to speak about it. But was that worth a 'national importance' certificate? Or was it the media's fetish with celebrity reporting? Another burning national issue is the performance of the Indian Cricket team and Sourav Ganguly’s come back. Yes IOC is his employer and they pay him money, but if that was enou...
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Its raining crap: A year since last
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Thursday, November 26, 2009. A year since last. The collective outrage fuelled by the over emotive residents of a city is slowly burning out to a selfish reality- a fear of surrendering hope. Amidst crass commercialization, a recession hit, inflation prone, powerless, weather beaten, misgoverned, corrupt, maoist infected, terrorist struck, vulnerable democracy moves ahead stepping past yet another memory. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Cant take the weight of it.
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Its raining crap: July 2009
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009. Yet another one on the monsoon. Year after year it seems like there is a meteorological reality-show to see how wrong they can get with their predictions on the advent of the monsoon. Infact, psepologists (esp the kind that appears on news channels), astrologers and and our meteorology dept should send. For a few, like school-schildren, the glee re-appears every time a holiday is declared. Despite all this, the initial days of the monsoon is a great treat to watch…people l...
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Its raining crap: The Notional Indian
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Thursday, November 01, 2012. 65279; I have realised that the concept of India thrives best in our minds and not in reality. India survives in each of our conscience as a concept loosely strung together by our virtues or by the lack of it. And it is not uniform. As an identity, it can be best described as an unfinished dream trying to complete its play before reality ends its climax. For lack of a better word- I genuinely feel that we don’t have a national narrative. The fight against corrupt...The ega...
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Its raining crap: June 2007
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Friday, June 29, 2007. So the monsoons have arrived in Mumbai. On the outset, I do not think that the civic infrastructure has improved to tackle the monsoons, atleast not yet. Roads are still dug up, trains were slow even for the pre-monsoon showers. Mithi river, the arterial dumping ground, sewerage, mangrove nourisher. Is still not cleared…and so on and so forth. Mumbai presents a rather apocalyptic picture of what unplanned development can do. The upper crust of the employed or the well-to-do, who ha...
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Its raining crap: April 2012
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Thanks to the new job, my visits to Europe has doubled since I was born. That makes it two. Many of my friends were surprised that I didnt post pictures of yours truly saying 'prost! And what happens at work? Waitone guy just got arrested for calling a populist bengali drama as a porn flick. Yet again, people have started taking sides. Where are you? Europe can wait for now. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Cant take the weight of it.
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Its raining crap: May 2008
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008. Saw “Samsara”,. A movie that happened just by chance. (The Wikipedia defines Samsara. As the cycle of reincarnation or rebirth in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and other related religions.). The director Pan Nalin. Male chauvinism is as much anthropological as it is historical. While we probably have moved a lot ahead in terms of empowering women, it occurs to me as a complete reversal in evolution. It might take years to come before we give women their due. And ...Never ima...
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Its raining crap: April 2009
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Friday, April 24, 2009. What is so great about South Africa, that makes it in-vulnerable to an election? Or what is so bad in India that makes it vulnerable to IPL? South Africa had their general elections on 22. April The day when Deccan Chargers won their 2. Thanks to Adam Gilchrist and Rohit Sharma’s exploits. (. Click for match info. And the fear of a security lapse were the main concerns to shift the IPL to SA, how come it could be managed so well in SA. Jacob Zuma has six wives. His financial a...
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Its raining crap: November 2012
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Thursday, November 01, 2012. 65279; I have realised that the concept of India thrives best in our minds and not in reality. India survives in each of our conscience as a concept loosely strung together by our virtues or by the lack of it. And it is not uniform. As an identity, it can be best described as an unfinished dream trying to complete its play before reality ends its climax. For lack of a better word- I genuinely feel that we don’t have a national narrative. The fight against corrupt...The ega...
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Its raining crap: April 2007
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Monday, April 16, 2007. So here goes my first crappy contribution to the ‘whirl’ of advertising and marketing. When you think back at any given day, the no. of products that you have used is no less than maybe 1000. This is my count. Experts put it at 3000. From getting up to your Rado alarm clock (ok whatever alarm clock) to your Nokia phone on which you double check the time and see whether somebody tried disturbing you while you were asleep. If you are in the habit of checking mails and reading up som...
