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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March 8, 2004
Resonating Jibes – 2
Vir Sanghvi must be having a premonition that led him to jot very similar views in his column Indian Muslims and Pakistan that I expressed in this post in my Hindi blog about how BJP strategists think that the lollypop of Indo-Pak friendship can lure Muslim voters. However in his attempt to being non-partisan he […]
March 6, 2004
TV and social obligations
Talking of Television in the Indian context there are clearly two divisions. On one side there is the state-owned Doordarshan (DD) and on the other lies the herd of satellite TV channels. The distinction off course is in the very way they function. DD has been, traditionally, the mouth-piece of the ruling party, serving its filthy […]
March 3, 2004
Savings vs consumerism
With my investments I have been hitherto happily content, alike one third of Indian population, keeping the perils of share-bazaar out of the purview. A recent print article by Vishnudutt Nagar provoked me to wonder on the irony of this. People like me who rely on small-saving schemes, saving accounts and term-deposits have been of […]
March 3, 2004
A Nation Betrayed?
Congress has a supposedly fitting reply to the India Shining campaign of BJP, they now have a website called A Nation Betrayed (website now defunct) which highlights the antonym; though I wonder what took so long to wake them up. Apparently the site is put up by a youth wing of the party indicating that […]
February 6, 2004
Tiger Released
The buzz must be stale by now, but Tiger (JDK 1.5) is out. Gosling excitedly terms Generics, the ability to parameterize a type, as the big one. As everybody knows by now, JDK1.5 is probably the last big change to Java after JDK1.2 which saw the arrival of Swing and new Collections API. I am […]
February 5, 2004
Guest Post on Nukta Chini
Charu very kindly agreed to do a guest-post (surprise.. surprise, in Hindi) for my Hindi Blog. Read it here..P.S. I plan to have it as a fortnightly feature, so if you wish to do a guest-post in Hindi, do drop a comment here or send an email.