Posted by Aditya on February 15, 2010 · 2 Comments
The last few weeks have been particularly tough for the Shiv Sena. While it was worried that it’s offshoot MNS has taken over its divisive agenda, it got a chance to regain the agenda when Maharashtra Chief Minister hinted that taxi drivers in Mumbai should learn Marathi to get a driving license. While the CM quickly … Read more
Filed under Bihar, Politics · Tagged with Bihar, Bihari, BJP, congress, India, Indian politics, maharashtra, marathi, MNIS, MNS, My Name Is Khan, rahul gandhi, RSS, Shahrukh, shahrukh khan, shiv sena, shivsena
Posted by Aditya on January 21, 2009 · 9 Comments
Barack Hussein Obama took the office of the World’s most powerful person yesterday. On 20th of January, Obama was sworn to the post of President of the United States of America. And although he did stumble while taking the oath, he did it (even a Golma Devi did it in India despite her lack of … Read more
Filed under India, Job · Tagged with barack husein obama, barack obama, BPO career, bush, george bush, golma devi, India, jihad, obama, osama, outsourcing
Posted by Aditya on December 1, 2008 · 8 Comments
When I arrived office on Thursday, Mumbai was the focus of all talks. Why Mumbai? Has something gone wrong there? Don’t you know there have been blasts there? Blasts! When? I did surf the news channels in the evening yesterday before sticking to a Hollywood movie. It was after 9 in the night. After 9! … Read more
Filed under Terrorism · Tagged with america, anti-terror law, babel, Bihar, BJP, brad pitt, Hemant Karkare, India, maharashtra, Major Sandeep Unnithan, mumbai, mumbai blasts, mumbai terrorist attack, Narendra Modi, national security guards, NSG, Raj Thackeray, Shivraj Patil, son of the soil, terrorism mumbai, UP
Posted by Aditya on September 27, 2008 · 21 Comments
Imran, a ten year old, tells that his grandfather believes all Hindus are kafirs. But he enjoys watching Ramayan and watches it in his hindu friends’ home, unknown to his grandfather. Latif was in office the day police shot dead terrorists and caught some more in a flat in Jamia Nagar. He is worried. Not … Read more
Posted by Aditya on September 20, 2008 · 2 Comments
On saturday, Indian Mujhahiddin, the notorious SIMI in a new form, once again struck delhi with 4 blasts killing 25 people and injuring hundred others. 4 other bombs were diffused just in time. we had plans to visit karol bagh that evening – fortunately, we decided to visit bhajanpura instead. a relative informed us of … Read more
Filed under Delhi, India, Terrorism · Tagged with barakhamba road, blasts in delhi, bomb blasts, borivali, cannought place, central park CP, CP, Delhi, delhi blasts, greater kailash, India, india gate, Indian Mujhahiddin, Irfan Khan, karol bagh, KK Menon, Mahadevan, mumbai, mumbai local trains, mumbai meri jaan, mumbai meri jaan movie, muslims, paresh raval, SIMI, Soha Ali Khan, terrorists, world trade centre
Posted by Aditya on July 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
when sunny deol’s dare devilry in the movie ghatak inspires the crowd to fight against the local don danny, we hail it as good prevailing over the bad. we again appreciate the crowd when it rises to save cops who poured acid in the eyes of criminals in the movie gangajal. However, in a real … Read more
Posted by Aditya on June 15, 2008 · 1 Comment
When the US pioneered the use of internet as a part of a military project in 1958, little did it fathom that it will be such a big hit commercially as it is now. Today internet users account for 16.6 % or 1,093,529,692 of the total World population. Now that’s what is called a revolution. … Read more
Filed under Internet · Tagged with 2001 dotcom bubble burst, Aristotle, Baazee.com, Cybercafe, Delhi, dotcom companies, first website, Hotmail, IAMAI, ICICI.com, India, Indian talent, Internet, internet in india, internet users, Internet’s story in India, Microsoft, mumbai, Naukri.com, Rediff.com, Sabeer Bhatia, VSNL, websites
Posted by Aditya on May 11, 2008 · 2 Comments
we all agree to this. indian IT & ITES industry is pampering it’s employees with way too much in salaries, a lot of it undeserved (had they stuck to the same company, they wouldn’t have made more than the measly hike during appraisal. they chose the easier route though. by jumping fences often, they have … Read more
Filed under India, Internet, Job · Tagged with attrition, career, cheap labour, HR, human resource, India, IT, IT employees, IT industry, IT professional, ITES, offshoring, online, online industry, outsource, outsourcing, salary
Posted by Aditya on May 4, 2008 · 2 Comments
god knows why these online edition of newspapers don’t give all news on the home page. i was trying to find an article i read in print on the online edition of the economic times and there i was sifting through sections and subsections and more trying to locate the article. final result: the article … Read more
Filed under India, Internet, TV · Tagged with black and white TV, bloxtr, bloxtr.com, doordarshan, economic times, gmail drive, India, indian television, indira gandhi, mile sur mera tumhara, newspapers, online newspaper, television in india, TV in india, virtual computer, web, wikipedia
Posted by Aditya on May 4, 2008 · 3 Comments
while commuting everyday to noida from north delhi, there are a horde of temples that i pass enroute. as a devoted believer, i make it a point to show respect to these roadside gods and goddesses with folded hands. a slight deviation is when i pass rajghat, the samadhi of mahatma gandhi, the man who … Read more
Filed under India · Tagged with bharat, british rule, country, divide and rule, freedom, gandhi, gandhiji, harijan, hindu, independance, India, Mahatma Gandhi, muslim, non co-operation, partition, partition of india, rajghat, revolt of 1857, satyagraha, swadesi, untouchability
