Let’s accept it. Most of the educated lot has this popular perception that maximum accidents are caused by drivers who are illiterate or received very less education. We think that, in general, educated people...
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April 23, 2004
Electronic problems
Two interesting aspects were brought forward related to making the forthcoming polls completely electronic with sole usage of the EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines). The first is off course the public interest litigation which demands the Elections Commission to add a last option “None suitable” on the EVM panel, similar to the “None of the above” […]
April 17, 2004
Outsourcing and other topics..
The horizon for outsourcing seems to be expanding by the day. Slashdot reports that Builder.com is now pondering outsourcing some of their writing jobs to India. Salshdot, as expected has swarming comments and counter comments. Now, apart from causing pain in the lower part of American anatomy, news items such as these inflict immense agony […]
April 16, 2004
The Lost Emperor
Zee News featured an interview of Atalji with veteran journalist Rahul Dev on 16 April. It was supposed to be a short routine interview, but instead came out saying a lot of unsaid things about the contender to the post of next PM. I had only read about Bahadur Shah Zafar's last days and perhaps […]
April 15, 2004
Care for a Kopi?
This is hilarious! If you're bored of your regular cup of Java here is something different. Try Kopi Luwak! Kopi (the Indonesian word for coffee) Luwak comes from the islands of Sumatra, Java and goes through a pretty unique harvesting process. The beans are infact, “fermented in the intestines of the civet cat, also called […]
April 15, 2004
Sounds Grammar?
Readers, you have enough reasons for getting mad on me. Lately, I have not been posting nothing and then I had the courage to post the following, but the fact is I only feel like posting stuff like these. So bear with me (anyways, when you take the test yourself, you would feel a lot […]
April 8, 2004
Guest post on Nukta Chini
“Nice guy” Hemanth kindly agreed to do a guest post this fortnight for my Hindi blog. Do read it here.Thanks Hemanth!