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Now when I said flood is coming, you guys must be wondering why am I speaking as an “unbeliever”! I mean, obviously the Bible does say that God won’t repeat such an act as he did in the days of Noah! Very true. But when i say, “Flood”, it should be interpreted as something which only destroys, something “Negative”.

So therefore the “Flood” can be interpreted as negative things that happen in our life. Sometimes we feel that we are flooded with bad luck or we wonder, “Why this is happening only to me? Why me???” Well the answer to this is, floods are gonna come, and when comes, it will destroy everything, and when I say everything, i mean, “EVERYTHING”. (more…)

The Patan gang rape did really wake up most of the news weary minds across the state. Shocked, everyone eagerly awaited the next day’s newspaper to get a deeper glimpse in to what transpired. However, the matter, unusually covered by the media, in a land where between 1971 and 2006 rape cases increased by a whooping 678%, died the death as the voice of the victims. 

It was interesting to note that when the issue came to light everyone was found discussing on, how so much of marks, and in turn power, was bestowed in to the hands of the autonomous teachers ? Every ‘Woman’s Commission’ and group in India along with the local media, politicians and the public started to blame the particular system for internal marks. While every one was busy in the blame game, no one ever cared to ask, what made these autonomous teachers do this act prima facie? Surprisingly and unanimously every one was ready with solutions to curb these heinous acts - reduce the amount of internal marks held in the hands of teachers!!  (more…)

In today’s Times of India, Nokia the mobile giant has released an ad in the front page for their new handset “6110 Navigator”. The punch line of the ad is “LET’S NEVER GET LOST AGAIN”.

I believe the ad is highlighting two things.
a) The GPS feature of the handset and most importantly
b) Its also highlighting the human being’s vaccum in his heart that says to him sometimes or always that he’s lost in this world and this handset will fill that void and in turn will give the individual a high that says yes, “Now I can never get lost”. (more…)

I was reading in an English daily how Coca Cola had come out of the blues with it’s new CEO at the helm and how they have come out of the Dipping sales and profits with the focused approach on aggressive marketing of it’s product ! Also how it’s Coke Zero brand, primarily targeted at the youths is planned to change the dynamics of the company!

Another article said how the new generation was focused on getting it picture perfect and zero flab when it comes to their bodies and how the models across the world are thinning down to the extent, you will be excused to think that they are representing Somalia or some other drought effected country! Although there are many activists crying foul against this gross neglect of their health, but nothing so far deters them from being the best in their modeling careers! Jo diktha hai wahi biktha hai (What is seen, gets sold) goes the old saying for many marketing professionals but that stands true for the generation today. (more…)

A 15 year old girl, studying in Class XI, went to the toilet. Plunk!! Now this looks gross? Read on!! When she was through, she realised, she had plunked a 3kg healthy baby boy in the toilet bowl!!! Now what is that!!? That is Gross.

Neither the girl nor her parents nor any of her pokey neighbours nor even her over-advising relatives could detect that the bulge was not because she was becoming plump but because there was a little human being developing inside her. (more…)

A gun that sends an electromagnetic pulse which causes seizures like that in epilepsy, a microwave gun that ‘beams’ words directly into people’s ears, another that is used as laser dazzler, still another that produces a sound loud enough to disturb the sense of balance, these are emerging non-lethal weaponry in the hands of the ‘Big Boss’. Some however have chosen to call these less-lethal weaponry!

More interesting is a microwave gun that produces a ‘disabling’ artificial fever by heating a person’s body! Though it would perhaps take about 15 minutes to achieve the desired fever effect, it could be used to incapacitate people for almost ‘any desired period’! (more…)

Saturday, 22 March, 2008: (Koramangala, Bangalore) Amit (30), a native of Delhi, employed in one of the biggest software firms in Asia, Infosys, was working there since nine years.

A year ago he met Rinku (28) from Mumbai. She worked as a marketing executive in a Private Bank. Sparks flew. He met the woman of his dreams and she met her ‘knight in shining armour’! They decided to get married. They started their march to live happily ever after. (more…)

‘Workaholic’, ‘Stressed Out’ these have been western phenomenon’s for our forefathers who used to work in the dusty and worn out offices of the government and PSU’s for the first 50 odd years from our independence until it one day quite surprisingly had sprung its neck in our families which for us existed only in Manhattan! And may be by a stretch of our imagination in Bombay too! Most of the Indian middle class was brought up in this atmosphere where being late in office was unacceptable to the elders and a taboo when it came to working women! (more…)

Many of you would never have heard the name ‘Tim Berners-Lee’. No, its not the full-form of ‘TB’.

About two decades ago Tim Berners-Lee had thought up a project based on the concept of hypertext to facilitate information sharing among researchers at the Europen Organization for Nuclear Research, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. He never realized the potential and scale of his invention.

Yes, he is the ‘Father of the Internet’. But a very worried Father!
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It has become more dangerous to move on the main roads, let alone the lanes and bylanes, of the suburbs of the financial hub of our nation, Mumbai. There is no police patrolling these area and even if you call them, they come a good half an hour later!

The reason: they are stationed at “bars” across the city! Why? They are ensuring that all waitresses go home by 9.30pm! And after that? Orchestra performances go on till 1.30am, and so the police have to stay back till almost 3am at these places, to ensure that the waitresses don’t return to work!! (more…)