The bechara who needs a Cinkara

Caution: This is a piece that I wrote in Nov 2000 for the light-hearted journal of my the then employer. Its full of usual jokes and PJs and probably doesn’t deserve a read, now. So why is it being carried here after 9 long years? Well because Yahoo geocities is shutting its shop and these […]

In short, Acronyms

Caution: This is a piece that I wrote in 2001, most of the stuff being ‘inspired’. So why is it being carried here after 9 long years? Well because Yahoo geocities is shutting its shop and these articles had to be saved for eternity 🙂 Bear with me! Acronyms were invented as essential AIDS to memory […]

A book that doesn’t tell you to be perfect

I normally don’t get too affected by moral sermons. No, I did pass those “Moral Science” papers at school, but somehow those idealistic preachings and “pointers to life” from Shiv Kheras, Dale Carnegies and the like don’t survive in my mind for long. I always end up asking myself: what if all the people who […]

God bloggers on the prowl?

David is back with interesting facts about the blogosphere. The figures may not be too accurate but the growth still seems bizarre to me, 70000 blogs created every day. Though the study shows that as much as 8% of these are spam or fake blogs, it is still a huge number! Technorati thinks that lot […]

The advent of media rich blogs

From their individualistic approach blogs have already emerged as a potent combined force with group blogs and the communities woven around them. Now some thought is being given perhaps to projecting it as your personal space that you would like to share with others, what they term as “social networking”. Audio, Photo and Mo-blogging had […]

39th Bharteeya Blog Mela

Ladies and Gentlemen! It's my privilege to host the weekly celebration of Bharteeya Blog Mela this week. And here is a formal invitation: Translated, that means: nominations for the 39th mela are open and may be submitted using the comments area for this post. If you go by rules, they have been quoted by last […]