They the people they may seem like duffers for a whole 5 years with just one little bi-decadal tool left in their kitty. They call it by the name Universal suffrage. They acted and flushed out the undeserving to give a new political outlook to the worl
Blend half a tea cup of bitter reality a generous helping of creativity and two heaped spoons of wishful thinking and there you have the flawless recipe for a refreshing cup of gossip. Now that we do not have time to rest our backs on garden chairs we h
Readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez are now forced to live in a world deserted by him but vegetated by his literary creations. The perfection of the short-lived Maconado and the unyielding belief that all untoward circumstances that one has to face in
India the biggest democracy in the world is often recalled by the rest of the world as a densely populated country packed with slums and odd concrete jungles thanks to the unprecedented reach of the movie The Slumdog millionaire.
Turkeys controversial ban of Twitter and subsequently YouTube had invited global condemnation a week ago. Social networking users of developed and developing countries lamented about the severe restrictions laid on expression of public opinion and sighed
That I sat to write this article after mercilessly crushing a cockroach that egregiously rushed into my bath may qualify me as a hypocrite but I am least bothered. Because I believe hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. So I thought it was bette
The whopping price paid for a messaging application made at just nominal cost say a few hundred dollars (thanks to all other computing applications that has made startups and life easier) should either be a product of poor economics or outstandingly bril
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Goal or no goal, you are my fantasy
Ive never been a football fan all my life except for the few instances I had to pretend as one for the sake of my good old friend. I dont mean to say that I hate the game.
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The Achilles heel of the Aam Aadmi Party
Kejriwal successfully executed his newly drawn rule and riot strategy threatening to even disrupt the Republic Day parade. All ended well when the police officers were send of compulsory leave. However in the process Kejriwal unintentionally laid bare
I am sure I will have to face many angry stares for writing this article instead of wishing you good tidings of the season. But thats oki as long as this serves its purpose. We are all accustomed to blasphemy at ho
Indian political systems transient flirtation with matters of political importance is infamous. The hue and cry raised by the media and social organizations may prompt legislative enactments or reforms that succeeds in allaying ongoing criticism but doe
Since November the weather here has slowly switched back to its cold and dry phase scaling up the inherent laziness in people like me to lift ourselves up from the bed and go about daily routine. Today as I got up I felt so much like immovable rust ridde
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Optimistic assumptions scale up Twitter valuation
Can a company enjoy high market valuation despite it not reporting a single dollar profit or even worse with consecutive quarters of losses Yes it can and that is what social networking site Twitter has proved recently thanks to the animal spirits and
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China rents five percent of Ukraine
Ukraine has entered into an agreement with China to lease out 5 percent of its land for cultivation. The contract has 50 year tenure and would provide China about 100000 hectares (nearly nine percent of the arable land of Ukraine) of fertile plains in th
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Is UN's silence proclaiming that it is no more than a rubber stamp?
The United Nations resolute silence hints an inevitable predicament that once came upon the League of Nations. League of Nations the predecessor of the United Nations was less fortunate to continue its inanimate existence as is the case of its successor
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JIYO AUR JEENE DO
Yippee.. Its August 15.. A long sought break from the boring routine. No work... no office.... Its raining out here and all I want to do is to sip my coffee and munch some hot onion pakoras. I thought that was the end of it....