Have you noticed? We don’t register, understand or react to any written statement unless it is followed by an emoji. For example, if I post ‘I am happy’, there will hardly be any reaction. But if I post the same with some silly emoji like 🤣 or 🥳, then immediately people will start asking you…
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Do Black Lives Really Matter in America?
I saw this CNN news item on Twitter today. This 63 year old black man has been in jail since 1997 (23 years) for the crime of the attempted stealing of hedge clippers, which would ordinarily cost under $50. The Louisiana Supreme Court refused to review his life sentence. He does have a rap sheet.…
WHO says ‘maybe no silver bullet’ for Covid!
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on humanity and will continue to take many, many more thousands of lives in the coming months and possibly years. We may never have a cure or even an effective vaccine for it as per WHO. But as bad as it has been, there are probably many more and…
The Covidian way of life!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53643455?SThisFB The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on humanity and will continue to take many, many more thousands of lives in the coming months and possibly years. We may never have a cure or even an effective vaccine for it as per WHO. But as bad as it has been, there are probably many more…
Nothing is personal or private!
How can a TV channel obtain the bank statement of a deceased customer?How can a bank release the statement? How can the channel air and discuss its contents openly? That is how lax India’s privacy laws are. That is the disdain with which we treat personal and private matters – of others. The channel’s anchors…
Bollywood pushing me out!
I dont know anybody in Bwood, leave alone SSR or his family or his girlfriends (I wish) or their families. I feel the whole of Bwood, the movie mafia, insiders and outsiders all together, have conspired to keep me out of Bwood though I was never interested to get into it in the first place.…
Model television debate!
What an enlightening debate! Please make sure your children watch this and learn how to speak to elders.
The Specter of Caste in Silicon Valley
This is not just limited to this one case or to Silicon Valley. I have seen it in every company I have worked for in the US, in every social organization I have been part of and even in many of the apartment complexes I have lived in, over the last two decades in the…
Unbelievable! Kapil being mean to Sachin!
What’s going on? Suddenly, everyone’s being mean to each other! What a ridiculous thing to say! It’s like saying, Kapil Dev could not convert 2-fors and 3-fors to 5-fors and could not convert the 5-fors wickets to 10 wickets! He took 9 wickets in an innings once but could not covert it into 10 wickets!…
Bollywood going nuts!
Nepotism is what we all do! Nepotism is just a fancy word for what we call ‘networking’, ‘having contacts’ and ‘influence’ in our non-Bollywoodian industries. On the streets of Bombay, it’s called ‘vashila’ or just ‘contak’. Tell me, which good job in which industry is available without some goddamn ‘vashila’?! And if the ‘contak’ happens…