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Hi peopleHere's praying that everybody still has a job and has not been severely impacted by the recession.I was recently involved in a discussion with people really close to me around what are the priorities for India as a country at this point in time given the recessionary times, given the terror threats, both internal and external, the development or the lack of it, education etc. Let me try

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Hey folksI was talking to a friend the other day.... He very carefully warned me that the next day there was a partial solar eclipse and so I should not venture out and I should not eat anything. Neither should I eat in that time frame nor should I drink anything!!! I was appalled at the narrow mindedness of the individual.... And hey, just to set the record straight, this guy was a pass out

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Hello peoplePart 2 of Indian English where we cover Casual references in english desi Style!!!!Casual use of words yaar (Hindi: यार meaning - friend, buddy, dude, man, mate), bhai (Hindi: भाई meaning - brother) and bhaiyya (Hindi: भइया meaning - elder brother) much as with the American English 'man' or 'dude', as in " Arey! C'mon, yaar! Don't be such a killjoy!", "Long time no see, bhai." or "Ay,

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Hey guysThe last time I was in the US, I had gone to a Subway and had a pretty tough time understanding what the man at the counter was saying.... Then I leant that we in India have our own way of talking English..... Here is the first part on the common idoms that we use.....First-class - also pronounced "fus-class" or slurred together; indicates high-quality material, used to describe many

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Hello pplToo verbose a title!!! Well.....could not think of anything else to compare 2 nations' reactions to the same external stimuli. One, a nation of hardly a million people and a size not to be too proud of... and the other, an international behemoth... the cynosure of all eyes..... The world's fastest growing economy and largest democracy..... The stimulus - the same - meaningless terrorism.

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Hi FolksWshng al my redrs a vry hppy nu yr.......In case you are wondering why.... Cost Cutting my friend, Cost Cutting.... lesser words, lesser efforts, lesser time spent and as they say time is money.....Recession, Recession.....seems to be all I hear nowadays everywhere right from the corporate honchos on TV, news channels (but of course), company execs, leadership, colleagues, my newspaper

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Came across some useless info on the web........1) If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.2) More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.3) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."4) Medical researchers contend that no disease ever identified has been completely eradicated.5) There are

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What a Joke!!!!!You are reading about the largest terror attack on a sovereign nation, the description of a gory bloodbath and the death of 200 odd people exclusively on this blog!!! Don't I sound like an egomaniac along the lines of Barkha Dutt, Arnab Goswami, Rajdeep Sardesai et al.... And please note, I am naming these 3 people for a very strong reason..... that being that these are the only

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What a joke!!!!Ever wondered how the dark ages were or ever felt like spending time in the dark ages........ ??? Come to Pune, the Oxford of the East, the Detroit of the East, and the best city in the world as all Puneites will tell you.....We all staying in Pune today are pretty much living the dark ages yet again in the new times!!! 8 - 12 hours of powercuts every single day!! How do you like

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Hey peopleI do not want to haggle on about the recently concluded US elections and how Obama won etc....I just want to make a small observation and I am sure some of you will agree with me.... I was impressed with the speeches of McCain and Obama after the election results were out, more so with McCain.... The sheer calmness with which he stated that,"till yesterday Barack and me were contesting

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Hi peopleGood news everyone!!! Here comes one extinction that I am extremely proud of and I was looking forward to....... The departure of Saurav Ganguly..... Yipee!!While we all know that Ganguly was perhaps India's most successful captains ever, in the emotion of his retirement, there are a lot of mistruths being quoted out there.... Here is my attempt at setting the record straight....1)

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Watched Hello!! yesterday...... 10 minutes into the movie, you get to realize why the name of the movie is Hello!! It is, I guess to ensure that people do not leave the cinema hall halfway.... You continuously hear Hello Hello!! Anybody there... Hello!!Jokes apart, a truly horrible effort at trying to make a movie out of a book. For those of you who liked 'One Night at a call Center', by Chetan

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Hey AllI know its been a long time since I was here......All of us must have seen the latest news, Aravind Adiga, another Indian won the Mans Booker Prize for 2008 for his book, 'The White Tiger'. I made it a point to buy this book as soon as I heard about it because it promised to potray a side of India nobody knew about....The book starts off on an altogether different note... This guy Balram

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In the course of my endless and mindless pursuits in the evening yesterday, I seem to have glanced up from my laptop towards an India map on the wall as Prabhu Chawla was trying to allow one of his guests to speak, forget who!!! And I was staring at that map, a lil thought crossed my mind...... If I were to draw a line beginning from somewhere near and in the whereabouts of Varanasi and extend it

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I am back.... after a longer hiatus this time around.... 6 months....I am becoming a semi annual blogger nowadays!!!Anyways, cutting to the major story of the day.... An another sect in India ended up getting 5% reservation yipee!!!! India has matured that much more as a democracy today!! A thought just struck me on reading about the whole fiasco about the issue. I have already iniated the

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Hi everybody.....The Eminence returns.... With a bang!!!! Been a long time since my last post.... around 8 months now!!! Just goes on to show the excitement in life at this point in time... Nothing...absolutely nothing to look forward to!!!Its marriage season in Delhi and Gurgaon.... and I have been attending marriages for some time now.... And every time I attend a marriage, my faith in myself

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Am back after a long time!!!!Watched Water over the weekend.... A suggestion before you watch the movie- if you think you are frustrated cos you feel discriminated, pls watch this movie.... It will make you think that you are the luckiest person surviving on this earth and in this country... Based in the early 30's, this movie is about the plight of widows then and also explores the idea of widow

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And hence cometh another Monday!!! And why!?? I do not know!!Had a pathetic weekend.... Started and ended with India vs Bangladesh on Saturday.... What a disgrace!!!! Pathetic.... It was a naked display of the gross stupidity that the Indian team brings to the table amidst its other capabilities like hypocrisy, idiosnycracy, over confidence and bullshitting!!! A suggestion here... Why not ban the

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And hence cometh Wednesday!!!! The middle of the week...... Have you ever wondered why there are 5 working days in a week. Its to ensure that you work 2 days, take a break and work 2 days again.... That is why there are 5 working days!!!!Yesterday, I was speaking with a couple of friends when suddenly the realisation dawned on us that our juniors from our MBA campus were graduating on 24th March.

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Another Monday at work.... Why can't we have only Fridays at work???..... I wonderOver the weekend, I was roaming around the malls of the 'Millenium City' as they like to call it with a friend and we happened to cross two stores, a Spencer's outlet and a Big Bazaar outlet.... We decided to enter the Spencer's outlet only to realise that we committed the biggest mistake of a lifetime....I was

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Just another sign of me enjoying my Friday at work....Was just going through a couple of news articles online..... And guess what is the biggest news in India today?? Arun Nayar getting married to Liz Hurley!!!! Ooooohhhh!! I am so excited!!! So are u attending it??!!! The only thing people seem to be talking about is,'Oh , do u know the marriage is at Jodhpur palace' or' Did u see Liz's latest

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Feels good to get back to the universal hobby of blogging!!!!My old account Eminence Speaks got blocked and so here I am with a new title and a new place and a new idea and of course new thoughts!!!I am sitting at work right now and I can see dozens of people sitting in front of their computers and processing invoices, making payments, taking calls and the like.... Hard to think that at their

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