31 Aug
Yesterday I was suddenly reminded of this wonderful game that kept our mornings, lunch breaks and any other free time busy – Kalla Police. For the uninitiated, Kalla is the Kannada word for thief so this translates to “thief police”. So the game is obviously about catching thieves etc. Anyways this post is not for [...]
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31 Aug
Then Now Pencil Pencil Rubber Eraser Scale Ruler Mender Sharpener Gum Glue Gum Tape Cello Tape you know any more examples? //
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29 Aug
Finally there seems to be a counterbalance to all the traders’ protests against organized retail. As I had almost predicted three months ago (it got lost in one of the drafts in this post), farmers’ unions have started taking sides with organized retail. Business Standard reports: The Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ambavat faction) today submitted a [...]
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27 Aug
Trying to analyze the NED which had hit me a few weeks back, and has partially stayed on, I think I’ve come up with a framework (yes I was a management consultant for three months) to try explain how life can get messed up. It’s some kind of a building structure (insert whatever is appropriate [...]
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24 Aug
???? ??? ?????? ?? ????, ??? ??? ???? ? ????? ??? ??? ?????? ???? ???? ????? ?? ??? Strong stuff. For more details check http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/ Hope a similar thing comes in for other indian languages soon. Chatting with relatives will be so much more peaceful then! as for what I’ve written here, it’s my favorite [...]
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23 Aug
Try eat congress with raw onion pieces sometime. Unmitigated combination. Soopar taste. (for the uninitiated, congress is a variety of masala roasted peanut, so called because they use split peanuts rather than the whole. the congress split, remember?) //
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23 Aug
that people continue to invest in UP… check out maya didi’s latest antics Mayawati, who on Wednesday hailed the new policy as a “boon for farmers of the state”, explained, “earlier I had ordered a survey on the impact of the new?farm policy and intelligence reports submitted to me last night revealed that farmers were [...]
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22 Aug
through some data i managed to scrouge out of some investment banker friends, I estimate the total amount of subprime loans doled out in 2005 alone comes up to around USD 150 billion! to get an idea about the amount of money, Reliance Industries (RIL) has a market cap of around USD 54 billion! It’s [...]
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20 Aug
I’m wondering what happens to the Ladder Theory in context of arranged marriages. In other words, how would you react if someone wants to set up you and your friend? Going by the ladder theory, I guess it isn’t too tough for guys since the friend will be there somewhere on his only ladder. The [...]
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19 Aug
I spent a part of this lazy sunday morning plucking lemons out of our lemon tree. Despite harvesting more than a hundred lemons a couple of weeks back, there were enough on the tree to merit yet another plucking session. Green lemons, about to turn yellow, hiding behind the leaves, and with the random thorn [...]
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