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‘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…)

Yesterday I read about our PM-in-waiting making his desires known to the FM-in-charge. I am talking about Rahul Gandhi and Mr.PC.

PC has weaved a budget that will surely cast a spell on the populace and as they are spell bound, he will take away all their money! His budget for the super power of the near future included a component called loan waiver! One of the biggest components of the budget this year was a loan waiver. Simply writing off Indian rupees sixty thousand crore in one-go was a shock for the most accurate of budget predictors. (more…)

Today’s TOI discusses about a bunch of youngsters who were kept out of the formal schooling system by their parents and yet have reached a stage where they are now pursuing interests of their choice, having cleared the National Open School examinations. Are these people out of their minds? How can they do such a thing? How can they put their children’s future and education at stake?

Or are we the people out of our minds?

What is wrong with the schooling system that these people considered such a harsh decision in the first place? You just have to look at the load the little ones carry to school. You just have to look at the amount of time they have to spend doing their homeworks. (more…)

Just when the new format of cricket called ‘Twenty-20′ has only started getting into us, a still shorter version called ‘Ten-XI’ has sprung up and someone is actually patenting this new format! This new shorter version will almost be like the One-Day format shrunk to the last ten overs, but it is also a version loaded with rules.

In the set of rules, I noticed that, gone are the days of  a match ending up as a tie or a draw. The rules ensured that one of the teams ended up as a winner. Now I know that most of you will agree to the new format. But we are forgetting that this game is a gentleman’s game! Or should I say “was”! Gentlemen fought their matches with zeal and perseverance but were also willing to acknowledge their inability to defeat the other team and were ready to share the honors with them, thus sharing the points, sharing the win. But ‘No’. (more…)

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