at the very Core of it all … is Content!
Why do Stock Markets behave the way they do? Why do the Indices go up one day and crash on the very next day, often without any reason – at least, reasons that are visible to ordinary mortals? What does the market “know” that makes it behave in a particular manner that you and I …
As we ramble towards the end of what many claim, will go down in history as a watershed election for India, it is time to take an objective, even holistic view of things. Are we really casting a mandate for Change? Will India be better off the day after the results come in? Or are …
50 Condom slogans to overcome the overdose of the Elections This has certainly been the most abrasively fought election to my knowledge. All norms of decency have been thrown like the proverbial baby with the bathwater and each day, we have stretched the nadir to a new low. Minions from every side of the ideological …
Ever wonder how Election smells? The long queue in the local Secondary School with the acrid odor of walls that have received a fresh coat of paint and the offensive stench of overflowing urinals that have been sought to be neutralized by the sprinkling of Election Commission ordained bleaching powder? That smell of an untimed Holi …
Happy New Noboborsho Another Year Gone. Swoosh! Just like that – a Nike logo. Our pockets are empty, our dreams are dead and the Change we had gifted ourselves has become a dread. But was the year that went by, really, truly that bad? Surely, we have learnt so much, achieved such seemingly impossible feats …
It was certainly South Calcutta’s biggest portrait of the Late Prime Minister, Smt. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi on Sarat Bose Road, just off the crossing of Sarat Bose and Puddapukur Roads. And, from the day it was painted way back in 1984 (or was it 1985?) she had stared defiantly in all her regal, benevolent splendor, …
As India goes to the polls, and the possibility of a fractured, truncated mandate looms large, many a man on the street is voicing their wonder at the “wastage” that the entire process involves. Take for example, the number of candidates in the fray. Every single election has seen the number of candidates increasing and …
The Dance of Democracy : 15 Classic Symptoms of Distorted Thinking. Every time India goes to the polls it becomes the biggest democratic process in the history of mankind. As the world sits back to watch in awe this unique Dance of Democracy whose sheer scale is mind boggling, there emerges interests that want to attack …
Celebrate All Fools Day, not by pulling stupid pranks on each other but by paying tribute to those who fool us, continuously on a 24X7 basis – our politicians with their corruption, our industrialists with their profiteering, our bureaucracy with their apathy, our spouses with their cheating, our Gods with their nepotism. Celebrate the fact …
