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English Winglish

nirav — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:12:12 +0000

These are one-liner� goof-ups� that I’ve collected over the last 25+ years.� Believe me, people have actually (and seriously) used these in their day-to-day life. Writing mein likhke dena padega Without eggless cake hai � Benefit ka fayada hi nahin hua Galati se mistake ho gaya � (Very old & well known!) Time [...]

Lakshmi Trading Corporations

nirav — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:29:05 +0000

A devotee’s concerned letter to Goddess Lakshmi, on the eve of Diwali 2010! (… And no, there’s no typo in the title of this blog, i.e. “Corporations“.)

Jai Lakshmi maa,

Blessings, are what everyone *wants* from You this season (Diwali). Every devotee of Yours pleads, begs, requests, demands, prays and then, expects a [...]

Servicing the Bullet

nirav — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:20:58 +0000

My bullet (Royal Enfield Bullet) used to fall sick often. It had been chronically sick for a while now, though it was working as usual. I wanted to get it thoroughly checked up by a specialist, however I wasn’t able to get a really good one.

I had a couple of places that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Which car to buy: Petrol or Diesel?

nirav — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:53:03 +0000

Have you pondered over this question?

While buying a car these days, a majority of us prefer to buy the diesel variant of the car of our choice (if its available), as compared to the petrol one. Even though the diesel variant comes:

at a higher purchase cost than the petrol variant (atleast [...]

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 [...]

3idiots and Five Point Someone

nirav — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:14:27 +0000

I started reading Five Point Someone last week and finished it yesterday (17th Jan).� In-between, I saw the movie 3idiots on Wednesday 13th Jan, when I had partially read through the book.� That probably makes me one of the few (rare?) persons who partially read the book, saw the movie in-between & then [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

“KINGFISHER Coach”

nirav — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:42:23 +0000

This is a picture I took on my way to the office today morning. Check it out, the auto-rickshaw is a “KINGFISHER Coach“, probably owned by Mallya’s gardener. (Actual picture)

And the main thing – there’s something (horribly + terribly) poetic written above it, which reads as below (copying the punctuation as [...]

WordPress Bug: Incorrect count of comments? – Solution

nirav — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:28:47 +0000

Yeah, I’d been noticing it over the last few days that the count of comments for the posts was incorrect. And it was consistently missing out later posts. I was unsure if the ‘bug’ existed in WordPress or it was due to the theme that I use (if that mattered).

I first thought, [...]

Vande Mataram: One Day, Maa Tere Hum

nirav — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:18:42 +0000

When was the last time you saw the Independence day flag hoisting or Republic day parade, live, or on TV?

Me: I seriously don’t even remember seeing it in the news – later in the evening – for the last few years.

When was the last time you sung (or even hummed [...]

My south-Indian “dhosths”!

nirav — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:57:37 +0000

After� about 6 years in Bengaluru, I am now well conversant with the� English pronounciations & “Hinglish”� spellings (i.e. Indian/Hindi spellings in English!). Never understood the *logic* and never got any satisfying reason about: � Why are English spellings of Indian words (Hindi, Sanskrit, etc.)� spelt differently in south-India, so much that the [...]

Microsoft .NET is like James Bond’s cars

nirav — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:35:20 +0000

An odd comparison?…

“What exactly is the Microsoft .NET Framework?” (Tip: Read .NET as “dot net” – stands for Microsoft .NET Framework (Fx)) => A typical (basic) interview question you might’ve asked/been-asked, or as a non .NET techie, you would’ve pondered about this question, isn’t it? A curious layman – think of an [...]

Does an apple a day, keep the “quota” doctor away?

nirav — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:50:15 +0000

Hope you read about my accident in the previous post. If not, here’s the excerpt:

I had an accident on the 03rd of Mar 2009 at around 22:00 hours, when I was driving my bike back from work. I broke a couple of ribs (minor cracks/fracture, unsure if they can be called “hairline [...]

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 [...]