Mar 08
Here is another one from the man:
He once said of an empire, “He is so blind that he can’t find his own buttocks”.
Mar 04
“The Kashmir dispute solved
A REPRESENTATIVE from India at the UN Assembly began: “Before beginning my talk, I want to tell you something about Rishi Kashyap of Kashmir, after whom Kashmir is named. When Rishi Kashyap struck a rock and it brought forth water, he thought, ‘What a good opportunity to have a bath.’ He took off his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the water. When he got out and wanted to dress, his clothes had vanished. A Pakistani had stolen them.”
The Pakistani representative jumped up furiously and shouted, “What are you talking about? The Pakistanis weren’t there then.”
The Indian smiled and said, “And now that we have made that clear, I will begin my speech saying that Kashmir has been an integral part of India all along.” ”
(Taken from Hindustan Times 27th Feb 2009 issue)
Dec 13
Arundhati Roy has, very bluntly and frankly, penned down the problems in this detailed article that India faces today, that have often been ignored for various reasons - be it the corrupt politicians or the fundamentalists.
Some of the information in this article is sure to come as a surprise to many people who take everything on its face value, where as what lies under the covers is the truth - cold and confronting.
An absolute must read for anyone wishing to get a first hand idea about the Indian political scenario and the state of affairs of various incidents that have all but blotted Indian democracy and secularism.
Nov 13
During last few days every possible self-righteous and so called game-experts, past captains and commentators have had a dig at Ponting for his decision to bowl part-timers on the fourth day of the Nagpur test to make up for the slow over rate.
I am absolutely gobsmacked how every tom, dick and harry has suggested how Ponting should have gone for the ‘kill’ without having to worry about the slow over rate. Bowling a certain number of overs per day is a rule of the game and what is expected of a captain is to ignore any such rule in the pursuit of victory and accept the penalty. So much for the spirit of the game!
Does that mean it is acceptable to ‘break’ the rules of the game intentionally to win a game? I think that warrants even a bigger penalty than what is already in place for not being able to bowl the required number of overs in a day.
Surely, cricket has become anything but the gentlemen’s game.
Well done to the Indian team for their performance and the way they emerged victorious. As far as the Australian team’s loss is concerned, a captain is only as good as his team, so stop blaming one man for the series defeat.
Oct 22
While Apple has done almost everything possible to keep iPhone’s operating system as much under the wraps as possible, Google seems to have hit the first nail in iPhone’s coffin by making its G Phone’s operating system ‘Android’ open source.
There is no doubt about the popularity of Apple’s latest baby but people seem to have had enough of Apple’s approach that restricts iPhone users to be able to install and use Apple applications only. iPhone-dev team has certainly been the front runners jail-breaking and unlocking different iPhone versions ever since it went on sale.
Only time will tell how these two different strategies from two of the most innovative companies pan out, but it is the mobile phone users who stand to gain for sure.