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Archive for March, 2009

March 29th, 2009 - 9:22 am § in Mumbai, Politics, Random Stuff

No criminals.. Please..

I’m supporting “No criminals in Politics” campaign. During recent Social Media Summit, me and Apurva were wearing badges which said “I won’t vote for criminals”. Here’s someting about the campaign. The recent Mumbai attacks have once again highlighted the ne[...]

March 27th, 2009 - 9:18 pm § in Community events, Random Stuff

Type of twitters

First thing first. I don’t understand why many people take twitter as verb and twitterer as noun. That might be the thing said by the site itself. But i always take twit as a verb and twitter as noun. So being on this site for around a year now, I was just wondering how many [...][...]

March 27th, 2009 - 9:01 am § in Random Stuff

Happy Gudi Padwa

Wish you all a very happy Gudi Padwa and Happy New year. For those who don’t know what Gudi Padwa is, here’s what Wikipedia says about it. “Gudhi Padwa (Devnagari: गुढीपाडवा) is celebrated on the first day of the Chaitra month, and is celebrated as New Year’[...]

March 25th, 2009 - 2:41 pm § in Business, Cricket, News and Informative, Politics

IPL – Indian Politics League

Last year when the first edition of IPL was launched, everyone was saying its not about only sports anymore. Its also about money now. But no one told me its also about politics along with sports and money.. Some points I don’t understand about the whole drama that happened past few days and i[...]

March 24th, 2009 - 9:07 am § in Thoughts.. Worth a thought

The disgrace of being homosexual

Before you start reading, let me clarify I’m not homosexual. I’m writing this post just cause a recent movie provoked me to think about this. After my previous post on homosexuality, many people had mistaken me as being homosexual. In India, being homosexual is considered as a highly dis[...]

March 23rd, 2009 - 8:24 pm § in Random Stuff

Welcome Nano

It was the plight of middle class Indian families travelling on scooters with kids that prompted Ratan Tata to think about an affordable ‘people’s car’. “I observed families riding two-wheelers — the father driving the scooter, his young kid standing in front of him, hi[...]

March 21st, 2009 - 11:19 am § in Business, technology, Thoughts.. Worth a thought

Social Media, Newspaper and Spamming

Today morning while reading TOI, I was wondering there are around 60% news that I am not interested in. And on TV, there are around 80% programs I won’t prefer to watch. The percentage is too high as compared to my mailbox where only 10-15% mails are the ones I would delete before opening. So [...]