It doesn’t happen everyday … an Indian for Nobel … not that there’s any dearth of talent (in fact we have it better), but there are several other factors … anyway, it’s awesome. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, currently in MRC lab in cambridge will be getting the 2009 Nobel in Chemistry ( alongwith Thomas A. Stitz and [...]
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3 Apr
Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye !
From the get-up it seemed at first a comedy, with none other than Paresh Rawal in a triple role. But it turned out quite opposite. There was humor, but it’s dark humor. Guess it’s not ‘award material’, but its heart is certainly at the right place. To me it looked like symbolism. Lucky is the [...]
31 Mar
I don’t know why …
Ok, ok, i know all that cliche’ stuff like the youth should feel more strongly about the politics and all that things like ‘Raise your finger’ by John Abs and ‘Jaago re’ … i have nothing against them, in fact my rationale supports them … after all, you can’t run a country with such a [...]
29 Oct
Rotten egg #2
My second rotten egg jointly goes to – 1. P. Chidambaram, the Indian Finance Minister, for initially putting a brave face and saying large things when faced questions on what the gov is doing to combat the ongoing economic crisis, but at last throwing the towel in and looking all dejected a day before diwali [...]
17 Oct
Rotten Egg #1
Ahoy, the journey begins ! My first rotten egg goes to bollywood choreographer (sorry, i can’t call her a film-director) Farah Khan, for her comment about the nomination of Taare Zameen Par in the Oscars as the Indian entry. According to her, her (or rather Shahrukh Khan’s) Om Shanti Om was a better entry and [...]
15 Oct
A Six-pack Kartik …
Well, almost … ( proceed at your own risk, coz there are lots of Bengali words interspersed, and you’ve gotta understand them. ) The pujo schedule looked like this … Saptami and ashtami – Bari, Nabami – Mamar bari, Dashami and Ekadoshi – Mashir bari. I won’t call it my best pujo so far, as [...]
15 Apr
The cream
Now it feels cliche’ to even blog about this. First you introduce out of nowhere an extended class of underprivileged social rungs, the OBCs. Fine, but what the hell is the need to give THEM the reservation in ( especially ) education. Why ? The worst thing is that our political gurus do not want [...]
29 Jan
Boo reservation
The topic has died down now a bit, eh ? Again, it’s a lot about generalizing at wrong place ( see Interpretation is everything ) . Hey govt, what you do is in general apply some relaxations to reserved categories candidates, in almost all places where you are directly involved. How do you know that [...]
7 Jan
Dig ‘em up !
The umpires could’ve awarded the match to Australia for Harbhajan’s ‘racist remarks’ on Symonds, … that would be better. Even better, why play matches, we give walkaways, and you win 4-0, you so-called world-beaters, you unsporting gits. Even if Brett Lee declares, “It all ( the controversial umpiring decisions ) evens up at the end”, [...]
4 Dec
Secular country, eh ?
She really could not bear any more. Taslima Nasreen had no other option but to do the ‘about-turn’ ( as the media is terming it ). The government’s attitude is shameless. The defence minister even reacts ‘ it’s good ‘ ! They why call India a secular country ? The gov is only hell-bent upon [...]
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