Political correctness..whatever..

Why do we find the need to be ever politically correct??
Calling someone handicapped is a huge no no…deaf/dumb/blind…even worse. When these words were coined I don’t think there was any derogatory connotations to them. They just mean someone who cannot hear/talk/see as is applicable. Why cannot we say it as it is? Why do we [...]

Free rice

Found this on Chronicworrier’s blog.
It is a scheme that operated in association with the World Food Programme, essentially a vocabulary game of sorts, whereby for every word you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations. This is funded by ad revenues the website gets. Sceptics can rest assured, I found [...]

Two months and a half century

I need to laugh and when the sun is out
I’ve got something I can laugh about
I feel good in a special way
I’m in love and it’s a sunny day

Tadaa…this is post number 50 and today marks the completion of 2 months since I started out writing this blog. Ok I cheated a bit and didnt [...]

Book guide

Is this cool or is this cool??
Its a “tourist map of literature”..you type in an author and you get a list of authors that write in a similar fashion..

False alarm

I started this blog nearly two months back…and I put up the cluster map on KT’s insistence a month back..I told him that it was silly to do it as he was the only reader of my blog and I would get the odd search engine hit.
I had registered in the website, but hadnt put [...]

D Company

What’s it about depression that makes my eyes well up for no apparent reason
What’s it about depression that I cannot even read
What’s it about depression that makes me want to write about it rather than the fact that Sampras beat Federer
What’s it about depression that makes it rear its ugly head every now and then
What’s it [...]

Five minutes

Every single day I am late…the earliest I get to office is 10…those are very very rare occasions. Its 10 30 normally sometimes 11. Difficult for someone who loves to begin the day early. Do you know what the reason is? I bet you do.
 Today, a Saturday. I got slightly delayed…say 5 minutes. You did not [...]

Of weddings and full circles

Today is our third month wedding anniversary…
Just heard today that I need to make a trip to Bombay on the 4th of December. Now a colleague of mine, A is getting married on the 3rd. I am going to Bombay for a client meeting. A was in Madras on 23rd of Aug for a meeting with [...]

One in hundred

The NY Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2007 is out and I am proud to announce that I have read 1.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Damn!

Lesser children

Read about Costa Coffee and found this extremely heart warming. Rather than the government bringing about reservations and other means stuff like this works so much better and is way more effective.
 Hats off!!