Pertinent Observations

Mint has done a feature on this year’s JEE topper (free registration required). Some guy from some small town in Punjab, who went to the Bansal Factory in Kota during vacations for his JEE coaching.
Two things stand out from the article. The way some people mug for the JEE is nicely described

A number [...]

I don’t know why but I’ve always thought of Portsmouth as a black team. I once happened to mention that to Baada, and he pointed out that it maybe because all of the defence and attack is black.
For example, in the recently concluded season, their first choice defence was Glen Johnson – Sol Campbell – [...]

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Recently the West? Bengal State Marketing Board chairman Naren Chatterjee had to say this about Metro?s entry into the state, ?have heard that they will sell directly to the trade then what will happen to the people in the chain, they will become jobless. We will not allow any one who disturbs the chain.? Similar [...]

I have started a photoblog. Will mostly contain pics from my Nokia 6670.
You can check it out here.
Main reason for putting that on blogger is that it allows me to upload photos directly, unlike LJ where I have to upload photos elsewhere and then link to them.
Also, having two accounts on? the [...]

As you might have figured out by now (if you are not reading this through a feed browser), this journal now has a new theme. I kinda got bored of that notepad theme, and wanted somethign more cluttered!
Tell me if you like it.?

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Amit Varma has linked to this piece by Vir Sanghvi in the Hindustan Times. It’s about the recent incident in Baroda where the artist was arrested, dean chucked out and a lot of protests happened.
Now, HT, in an attempt to make some money from this online edition, features some ads by Google. Now, I [...]

I’m writing this as I eat an apple – a “Washington apple” to be precise. A few years back, I don’t think I would’ve had the luxury of eating an apple in may! The profusion of these “foreign apples” now makes this possible.
I have been brought up with the belief that apple is a [...]

Got this mail in my official inbox today.
Hi All,
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We have XYZ ABC celebrating his birthday on Sunday i.e. on 20th May.
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Please join me in wishing him many many happy birthday in advance!!!!
?Regards,
*Name blanked out to protect identity*
Human Resource
I’ve retained the fonts and colors from the mail that i had received. A couple of [...]

During one of those now oh-so-rare long intellectual discussions yesterday, I started wondering how we could capture and transmit smell! We have photographs and videos to capture sights. We have sound recorders to capture sounds. We have words, and text such as this in order to capture thoughts. However, is there any way that one [...]