Archive for May, 2007
I, Sell Out
Posted on May 31, 2007 - Filed Under blog
I don’t like Coffee Days, Baristas or other such chain stores because the people that visit them are so cool that I get a chill. I freeze to death over there.
However, I have started selling out to a small extent over the past few days by actually eating reasonably at McDonald’s and KFC, because the [...]
Pulchritude
Posted on May 31, 2007 - Filed Under blog
Who came up with the word pulchritude to describe beauty?
It sounds like some the anglicised name of an exotic South Indian food dish.
Imagine wanting to use it on woooman to describe how wonderful she looks.
“I’m bowled over by your pulchritude!” sounds akin to “I’m bowled over by your masala dosa!”
I suddenly remembered [...]
Up with Us!! We’re backward!
Posted on May 31, 2007 - Filed Under blog
The recent ruckus and riots in Rajasthan by the Gujjar community, over protests that ask for their inclusion into the list of Scheduled Tribes is a bit warped, to say the least.
Wikipedia says thus about the Gujjars, and if the article’s authenticity is to be believed, they are a Kshatriya clan (warrior class types), who [...]
You are having the Thump
Posted on May 31, 2007 - Filed Under blog
Sony Ericsson has released this new model of cellphone with ‘bass reflex headphones’ or something that sounds like that, with Hrithik Roshan being the brand ambassador. The ad punchline goes – “I love the thump“, and is pretty catchy.
Now, these ads have so severly been splashed all and sundry, that the first thing one thinks [...]
Religious Propaganda Demystified
Posted on May 31, 2007 - Filed Under blog
Christianity, with all its flavours and different sects/branches is the most widely practised religion on the planet. They have a reasonable growth rate of followers too, courtesy of some interesting phenomenon that I shall highlight in the following lines.
On a very intriguing note, the high growth rates of Islam, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism has been [...]
Of Rocket Science and Shampoo
Posted on May 24, 2007 - Filed Under blog
Catch phrases and cliches seem to be thrown around in the air in the IT industry, very much like confetti at parades in most Australian cities, once in four years, everytime those guys win the World Cup and come back riding on a tableau.
I think we should have a World Cup without the Australians, so [...]