Here is the first look at the new movie from Ashutosh Gowarikar - Jodha Akbar. I really like the look of Aishwarya Rai. She has that old world charm of a princess. Somehow that glamor is missing of being an Aish... and the simplicity and innocence is visible! What do you think? Read more
This is really sad - this shrine is revered by all - Hindus, Muslims and others as well. To have a terrorist strike here is just downright pathetic! Would be intrigued as to who the potential protagonist is? Terror struck the highly reverred Sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisthi in Ajmer when a bomb went off inside the complex on Thursday evening killing three persons and injuring 28 others as thousands of Muslims were breaking their day-long Ramzan fast. A near-stampede broke out soon after the bomb kept in a school bag exploded at 1816 hours as people, who were having food after the fast, running ran helter-skelter, many of them profusely bleeding, and overturned plates and eatables lay scattered. One of the persons killed in the low-intensity blast, which took place a few meters away from the main tomb, was identified as 45-year-old Mohammed Shoaib from Mumbai who had come to offer prayers at the dargah of the 13th century Sufi saint. Read more
Well.. the last line makes a lot of sense... doesn't it? 🙂 Do not seek the fortune that greed gathers,For its fruit is bitter in the day of enjoyment. To protect his own prosperity from declineOne must not crave the property held by others. -Tirukkural 18: 177-178 Read more
There are no ethics in business anymore! Those who thought that MNCs in India would be more ethical are smoking pot! Here is an interesting and a distasteful hijacking of the domain by Vodafone of Airtel's domain name. Type Airtel.com and you will be directed to www.vodafone.es! Domain Squatting in not uncommon but this is a little too cheeky and unprofessional. Update: Huzaifa Das suggests in a desicritics group email that this is because Vodafone bought out Airtel's Spain operations. Airtel had won a license to operate in Spain. In the last line, she has a valid point! Read more
If you have anything planned for 2012 and want to convey it in England... you better watch out! That year is copyrighted and you could be prosecuted! Words like "Olympics", "London 2012" and even "2012" are copyrighted! It can't get more ridiculous than this .. can it? In fact, the organising committee for a certain upcoming sporting event has decided it would be "disproportionate" to prosecute the author of a book called Olympic Mind Games for breach of copy-right. But, under no less than two acts of parliament, it could if it wanted to. When it discovered that Robert Ronson's children's science-fiction novel was to be published, the organising committee for the previously mentioned happening sent him an email asking that he should use neither the O-word nor the expressions "London 2012, or 2012 etc" in the title. The committee was able to do so under statutes passed in 1995 and 2006, which in effect turn all the elements of its title into a trademark. Read more
We may be prudish when it comes to our Cinema and public affection. But when it comes to the bedrooms, Indians are rather satisfied with the expression of love! They demand, get and give to their partners all that one requires in love-making! Land of Kamasutra is finally striking back! Read more
It is interesting when one fundamentalist accuses other of being intolerant and preaches "restraint" and "love"! The Roman Catholic Church has had one major agenda - that of converting people from other faiths and hues. They followed it in Africa and are on the go in Asia! Now, Vatican wearing a halo (which I sure it bought from some pawn shop, for its rather creaky and of little value), now preaches to Muslims to respect all faiths! Huh! Really? How about taking your own medicine for a change? I think the real issue is not of tolerance - but of making inroads into the middle east to propogate Christianity and convert the Muslims! These two sides, who in my view, are tribal in their thought, will one day bring untold horror and destruction to all people! Read more
After reading the post on Tolerance and specifically the replies and comments of commenters like SeemaD and Ledzius - it became clear to me how thoroughly out of date some Indians are about the Western "Secularism". The traditional Secularism in West is the basis for separation of religion and state. Indian definition of secularism is more inclusive - as articulated in "Allah tero naam". Then, there are some who believe in Jesus in the same way a lot of mullahs believe in Mohammad. They, of course, have no need for tolerance. Here is one guy who articulates it well.... worth viewing. He is hilarious and sad at the same time! Read more
As the information flow has increased with not just the media but the blogs providing more and more analysis and news, it is tough to really sift through the important and discard the unimportant. A lot of news and information also comes through one's emails. So, the need for information aggregation and emails has been there for sometime. RSS readers bridged that gap. For past few years the portals such as My Yahoo and Google-personalized have done a good job of being portals. MSN's Live has also come in and used Web 2.0 technology well. Lately though two new players have come in - Pageflakes and Netvibes. Thunderbird from Mozilla is in a different genre of a mail reader with RSS functionality. Read more
Assassinations using the aircrafts are a favorite ploy in the sub-continent! When Sanjay Gandhi was killed it was a plane. When Zia-ul-Haq was killed it was a plane. When Madhav Rao Scindia was killed it was a plane. Now, Musharraf was about to say good bye to his life. But was saved by a hair's breadth perhaps! He probably took a different helicopter than he was supposed to. Musharraf is a survivor is anything! He can turn any odds against him from the way he has shaped up over the years. Something inside me says that one day we may see him as the "Most Wanted" in US foreign affair circles. He will be where Osama and Saddam were yesterday and today. Read more
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