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 would look upto her even […]
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Class of 2010 to begin, will our kids survive the ragging?
Just a 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 heartbreaking to see Abhishek’s dad weep, his grief very much understandable. Every parent prays they will never be in his […]
SMS, Twitter ruining English language in India
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. I am not concerned about the style of writing, that keeps changing with the time. But obvious grammatical and typos must be avoided. When it […]
Paul Octopus retires, Indian political parties could use him
FIFA’s real hero Paul Octopus has been in the news across the world in all media (TV, internet, print, radio). I guess it got tired and has decided to hang up its boots (4 pairs of them!) Germany’s Paul competed with India’s parrot, India lost. Everyone has been talking about Paul’s retirement but I guess […]
TataSky needs to communicate better
We subscribe to TataSky DTH at home. Reasonably happy. But I think they ought to improve in their communication a lot more. After the excellent TV commercial of Safina/Airtel DTH [video], which talked about recording a program from the mobile, TataSky released a PR which said their subscriber could now start the recording from their […]