Posted by gargi on 30 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Laura Bush on whether the top bestselling books list on the New York Times are partisan:
I don’t know how they get theirs, because that isn’t always the case on some of the other lists—where Harry Potter is No. 1, 2 and 3 [Laughter]—of the real best sellers
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Posted by gargi on 28 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: India
… the country cannot be made to suffer because you have decided that the RSS is a target.Don’t make them out to be victims. Don’t repeat the mistakes of Indira Gandhi.
What Mani Shankar Aiyer did vis-a-vis Savarkar is idiocy. There are more pressing matters than the plaque of a man dead for half a century.
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Posted by gargi on 28 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: India, Politics
Last week the Finance Bill got passed without a murmur - some hundreds of thousands of crores - because you percieved an insult.
A whole nation and a system insulted because you and your party still haven’t figured out that you have lost power.
I can belive crass behaviour from almost everyone on the Government benches - [...]
Posted by gargi on 27 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: And Finally ...
cute forward that I got today from Aparajita:
A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, “What are all those clocks?”
St. Peter answered, “Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time [...]
Posted by gargi on 26 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: And Finally ...
Or should that be between a rock and a hard place?
Should I take up the consultancy and secure the company’s future through the shows that it brings us. or should i turn it down - and stick around figuring out what to do next?
My life is becoming one soap opera - with the break points [...]
Posted by gargi on 25 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Here’s an irate MS Word user writing in the PC Magazine:-
When is the last time anyone talked about Microsoft Word? Here’s a program on its last legs that should probably be discarded and rethought completely. It has become a kludge. This is apparent with the latest version in Office 2003.
Let me start out with a [...]
Posted by gargi on 25 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: Web
Someone in Google has a great sense of creativity, empathy and humour. And all this while unobtrusively getting their logo to reflect current events. This blog is a tribute to someone, somewhere in Google who brings a smile to all our lips when we wander on to their page, in a rush, to find something.
Venus [...]
Posted by gargi on 24 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: Diary
…. is really what I need. The last fortnight has been madness and it promises to get better (or should that be worse).
Everyone wants to offer me a job or a consulancy and offer my company business. And the fuck up is not being able to say no to anyone.
Can’t say no to the teaching [...]
Posted by gargi on 23 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
The Singaporean Premier - Lee Hsien Loong - is a worried man. Worried that his people are not having enough babies. Worried about a declining (population) growth rate. And worried that the island state of Singapore - or Singha poora the kingdom of lions - will not be able to compete against the billion [...]
Posted by gargi on 23 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: India
A little ray of hope in the political quagmire that is India. This from today’s Financial Express:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has warned his ministers against treating public sector undertakings (PSUs) as their “fiefdom”. In a letter to his cabinet colleagues, Dr Singh has said that they cannot afford to ignore good corporate governance and conduct. [...]
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