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Our jobs, our salaries & us

nirav — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:23:48 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I was speaking to an old friend of mine, who’s currently in Delhi. She’s working as a Project Manager with an IT major there. Though she already has a couple of big client products & a large team to manage, she was grumbling over being overloaded by her company with [...]

Traffic woes, no one listens

nirav — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:00:40 +0000

I’d sent this e-mail on 26th Oct 2009 to the Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Bangalore City (currently Commissioner Praveen Sood) – to highlight the lack of regulatory efforts to improve the traffic situation in Bangalore. There has been no response till date (11th Feb 2010)… Well kinda expected, you’d say. There’s little that we [...]

Expensive celebrity endorsements & inflation

nirav — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:39:58 +0000

Q1. Have you ever bought something just because your favourite celebrity was endorsing it? Q2. Have you *not* bought something that *you wanted*, because a celebrity you disliked, was endorsing it?

If you said a “YES” for any of the questions above, you can go back to what you were doing before coming to this article; sorry [...]

Terror in Mumbai – 26 Nov 2008

nirav — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:30:24 +0000

** Dispatches – Terror in Mumbai (Video Documentary – ~350 MB) ** The untold story of 2008′s terrorist attack on Mumbai, in the words of its victims and the gunmen. The programme contains graphic images and descriptions of the atrocity which may upset some viewers. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Dan Reed, Terror in Mumbai tells the story of [...]

Whodunnit: Fictional Relief of Frustration – Part V (Last)

nirav — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:05:27 +0000

Part V: Continued from Part IV:

Recap: Five auto-rickshaw drivers are mysteriously killed on the road over a week. The passenger of the first auto-rickshaw, Maanvi Sharma, potentially provided a clue of a bike driver being the potential suspect. The investigating police sub-inspector D. K. Gowda had received a note from the supposed killer which explained the [...]

Whodunnit: Fictional Relief of Frustration – Part IV

nirav — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:04:32 +0000

Part IV: Continued from Part III:

Whodunnit: Fictional Relief of Frustration – Part III

nirav — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:28:59 +0000

Part III: Continued from Part II:

Recap: Two auto-rickshaw drivers are mysteriously killed on the road over a period of two days. They both were driving at crowded places when they were killed & lost control over their respective vehicles. The passenger of the first auto-rickshaw, Maanvi Sharma, potentially provided a clue of a bike driver being [...]

Whodunnit: Fictional Relief of Frustration – Part II

nirav — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:35:21 +0000

Part II: Continued from Part I:

Recap: An auto-rickshaw driver is shot dead by a mysterious killer near the Adugodi signal, while he was driving his passenger, Maanvi Sharma, to the Forum Mall. Though there’s a bad accident after the driver loses control, Maanvi escapes without any major injuries & informs the investigating police sub-inspector D. K. [...]

Whodunnit: Fictional Relief of Frustration – Part I

nirav — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:11:09 +0000

The shocked passenger was nervously happy to be alive with some injuries, after a close brush with possible death. The auto-rickshaw she was riding in, had suddenly swerved to the right & hit the median, causing the vehicle to topple to the left. Luckily for her, within a few seconds of the accident, some people [...]

Honk India Honk!

nirav — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:08:28 +0000

I know, we have quite a few (virtual) reality shows on TV with a similar name. This one is a unique pure reality show, though!

Welcome to THE SHOW OF THE 3rd MILLENIUM! We’ve had contestants from the 2nd MILLENIUM as well, right from the time the vehicle horn was invented. The show wasn’t [...]

Accepted Injustice

nirav — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:03:56 +0000

1. Dhanya, a 14 year old village girl, died on the way to the hospital. The valiant villagers who had saved her from drowning in the raging Cauvery waters, couldn’t reach the nearest hospital just 2.5 kms away in-time to save the breathless Dhanya, only due to bad roads. The Sunday ToI (Bangalore Edition) on [...]

Postcard from Bangalore!

nirav — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:45:04 +0000

I noticed a red & white card lying next to my right shoe while waiting at the Madiwala checkpost traffic signal, on my way to the office. I bent over & picked it up. I wiped the wet dirt which had covered it. It was a card driving license (DL), and the name on the card read [...]

Quota for Tax-payers!

nirav — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:57:53 +0000

Humourous Thought (Thanks Swami for this gem!):

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

We, the Indian salaried class, run the country with our Tax-Deducted-at-Source (TDS) + Surcharge + Cess, is well-known. Ofcourse, there are the Ambanis, Mallya, Birlas & even Shah Rukh Khan & Akshay [...]