Archive for the ‘etc’ Category

Impossible is a word from a fool’s dictionary

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

I visited my niece's school Nasr in Hyderabad for Independence Day celebrations. Was thrilled as my niece was getting her Prefect badge (how to be a good Prefect at school?). I already look upto her as she is at least 4 inches taller than me, after getting her badge I ...

Blackberry: Can’t access address book, Send option disappears

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Last 2 days I have been spending time fixing my Blackberry 8520. I was using Blackberry Desktop 5.x on my Windows 7, I read about their new snazy upgrade, the upgrade itch forced me to upgrade to Desktop 6.0. During installation I thought version 5 would be deleted/upgraded, at the ...

Class of 2010 to begin, will our kids survive the ragging?

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Just few days ago an innocent Engineering student fresher Abhishek Sahai was forced to suicide. Reason - the dreadful ragging. Lately because of TV in India these incidents are getting exposed quickly. It was heart breaking to see Abhishek's dad weep, his grief very much understandable. Every parent prays they ...

SMS, Twitter ruining English language in India

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

I get to work with many youngsters who write for us on Oneindia.in. Freshers send me emails with words like 'dat (that)", "2 (to)", "pases (passes)". Very painful for me.

TataSky needs to communicate better

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

We subscribe to TataSky DTH at home. Reasonably happy. But I think they ought to improve in their communication a lot more.