Controversy is the new advertising
Sometime last week, I wrote a column for the New Indian Express that I felt deserved a bit more visual treatment. It also needed the “Ramesh Srivats” treatment. All icons used here are from Icon Finder
A day in the life of an I.T. Bachelor, chapter 3: Break up
Here is part 1 and part 2. Barring the occasional edit, this is more or less untouched, although I have cut out an entire section from the end to keep the length manageable. This is the final part. Chapter 3: Break up The sugar syrup vending machine now had a security guard who was checking ID … Continue reading A day in the life of an I.T. Bachelor, chapter 3: Break up
A day in the life of an I.T. Bachelor, chapter 2: Check up
Here is part 1. As I was transcribing part 2, I realized that the ponderious dadabudality of Ashok from 7 years ago was getting rather tiresome. So I decided to brutally hack long sentences and banish every GRE word to 14 years of exile. Also made it a little more contemporary. Chapter 2: Check up … Continue reading A day in the life of an I.T. Bachelor, chapter 2: Check up
A day in the life of an I.T. Bachelor, chapter 1: Wake up
I recently unearthed an old diary of mine that, to my surprise, contained a few short stories I had written a really long while ago. I found one that I thought will make a good digestive pill after the Mile Sur post, a post that, despite the 400+ comments, I am not a big fan … Continue reading A day in the life of an I.T. Bachelor, chapter 1: Wake up
Mile Sur Mera Tomorrow? Fail
I woke up today, did my morning ablutions (Freshen teeth, Refresh Twitter) and quickly realized from a cursory glance at my browser that India Inc. had rebooted, reprised, refreshed, renewed and re-engineered Mile Sur Mera Tumhara. As the unauthor of the unauthorized uncut undocumentary on version 1.0, I was more than looking forward to find … Continue reading Mile Sur Mera Tomorrow? Fail
Epic FFFFUUUUUUUn
The internet is filled with memes, and some memes have this annoying habit of not going away, like the Hitler downfall meme for instance. Just when we all breathe a collective sigh of relief at its demise, some jerk wants to tell the world that Hitler was not amused at some trivial issue, and every … Continue reading Epic FFFFUUUUUUUn
Kumbakonam Degree Copy
Update: The video has been now been removed, and one hopes it will be back up with credits going to the original script writer I saw this today And then realized that our Lavanya Mohan had, in Nov 2008, deviously time-traveled to Jan 2010 and with immense patience, listened to and wrote down the dialogues … Continue reading Kumbakonam Degree Copy
The quick Dan Brown foxes and jumps over lazy reader dogs
My first Dan Brown book was The Da Vinci Code, which when translated fully to English curiously becomes “The Of Vinci Code”. Of course, the incorrect juxtaposition of an article and a preposition wasn’t something that bothered me as I raced through what I thought was a throughly enjoyable story. The Da Vinci code was … Continue reading The quick Dan Brown foxes and jumps over lazy reader dogs
Top Technology Trends That Transformed Tamilnadu This Tecade
The first decade of the new millennium has come to an end. As a reader, you are typically presented with a whole cornucopia of ‘Best/ Worst of the Decade’ features on every Tom’s newspaper, Dick’s magazine and Harry’s Pottery website. ‘Top 10’, ‘Five most important’, ‘20 greatest hits’. And so on. If the feature is … Continue reading Top Technology Trends That Transformed Tamilnadu This Tecade
The Slacker’s Dilemma
There’s a scene from my all-time favourite TV show “The Wire” where one of the drug kingpin’s lieutenant grabs hold of a sheet of paper that one of his underlings seems to be writing on and asks incredulously – “Don’t tell me you are writing the minutes of a meeting to discuss criminal conspiracy!” and … Continue reading The Slacker’s Dilemma
