Diwali is Over
October 29, 2003The first of the three major consumer extravaganza’s is over. Diwali. The other two being Id and Christmas. There was a time – not so long ago – that we celebrated and had fun on Diwali, yet managed to keep the sense…
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The first of the three major consumer extravaganza’s is over. Diwali. The other two being Id and Christmas. There was a time – not so long ago – that we celebrated and had fun on Diwali, yet managed to keep the sense…
It has been a bad 15 months for Coke and Pepsi. It started with the Indian Express breaking the news about ancient rocks in the Himalays being defaced with painted Coke & Pepsi signage. The upror that followed both nationally, and internationally…
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The Supreme Court on Friday said it did not trust the Gujarat government and prosecution to bring the rioters to book. A bench, comprising Chief Justice V N Khare, Justice Brijesh Kumar and Justice S B Sinha, said: “What is the rajdharma…
Today my rickshawalla gave me a heart attack – when he whipped out a mobile phone – at a signal – and had a conversation with a friend. He told me “madam, aaj kal yeh bahut sasta ho gaya hai” (nowadays the…
There was a very interesting theory that was in vogue a few years ago. It was a theory that sometimes collective memory is based on false memories – or implanted memories. Examples given were 1) a whole spate of children who wrongly…
I came across an old poem of Khalil Gibran – used to read him when i was a student. it was the in thing to do in those days. and then when i went into work, i kind of left all that…