OM KARA
Went to the movie on the shortest possible notice, again precariously perched on the auto. And once in the theatre, found a patient guy who can help me with my hindi comprehension and sat near him. Saif Ali Khan plays the role of a sniper (without a scope though) in the gang. The movie opens with Saif marking a baarath bus’ tire, thus stopping Kareena’s wedding. Prior to it Kareena falls in love with Ajay because he has injured his shoulder. I am not kidding. Kareena plays a very optimistic role. Once when Ajay comes to her home, she gives him a cup of coffee with her engagement ring in it. Kareena’s positive intuition and the hot coffee prevents Ajay from swallowing it.
As Ajay is shifting to politics, he is forced to find a successor for his gang. Vivek Oberoi gets picked up inspite of Saif’s seniority. This forms the crux of the movie. As there is no legal way in which Saif can snatch the leadership which he feels he deserves, he resorts to artifice. He spins an affair between Kareena and Vivek and makes Ajay believe it. Bipasha Basu’s role has been woven into the main story to have two item numbers. Also Konkana Sen plays the role of a village belle. As there are six stars in the movie, the director has made use of a simple means to identify the couple combinations. If two people of the opposite sex have an ornate hip bracelet with them when together, it means they are a couple and you can guess what will happen next. Now between all this entertainment, the gang goes on with its job increasing its frag count. At a stage of the movie when you start to feel that the cops have been significantly absent, guess who turns up as cops. Our own Ajay and Saif and still more fragging.
Finally Saif is given a deadline for proving la affair. I first misunderstood the deadline to be the morning of the marriage. But it turned out to be just before first night. Saif finally cooks up some crazy call in which it seems like Vivek’s reading of a paper written by Saif. Our gullible Ajay believes it. Now starts the killing spree. Whatever ways you think people can die, they do here. Kareena is smothered to death with a pillow by Ajay. Konkana confesses that she had stolen the ornate bracelet. So now Ajay turns on Saif. Then loses interest and chases them away. Then comes the sudden revelation that he is a necrophile. Later Konkana surprises Saif with a sickle and slits his throat. Now with too many confusions about who was right and who wasn’t, the director chose to end the movie allowing Ajay to kill himself thus saving our time and the reels
Saturday, August 05, 2006
MY NEW LIFE
Finding time to blog when in a b-school is not that difficult once the professors allow us to use laptops in the class. But till situations become that idealistic, I have got to exploit innocent faculty teaching refresher courses like mathematics.
First let me begin with my college. Though a startup and people being skeptical about it, the institute is in the hands of dedicated people who don’t show the slackness often associated with government employees. Also the investment on the temporary campus is enormous and shows the resolve to make IIFT-K a success.
About Kolkata now.
About b-school life. The course is designed to be very rigorous. But that is only applicable if you don’t understand how the system works. No different from management books, the professors too are verbose and convey little. So it is up to you to separate the grains from the chaff. The most important benefit of being in a b-school is having a wi-fi enabled laptop. As long as orkut and ym are around, life is going to rock. And everything connected with the course is usually done using powerpoint. And this is the most exciting part of it. Most of the exams have only MCQs. Now why are you showing your teeth??
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
LOOK!! SOME ONE BEHIND YOU HAS RESERVED THAT PLACE
It has been a while since my last post and I am still wondering on what to blog about.
Although there have been myriad articles on the reservation controversy, here is my take on it.
Reservations were first introduced eons ago (50 years to be precise) to account for the social and economic inequality that prevailed then. Also then, social status was directly linked to economic position. According to the census taken then, nearly 22.5% were classified as SC/STs and 30% as OBCs. As the first step, the SC/STs were promoted using reservations. The basic purpose behind introducing such partisan, populist and seemingly unfair measures was to make up for the centuries of oppression inflicted upon the lower strata of society (SC/STs). So as to seek mercy and also to provide an even playing field, such policies were introduced in educational institutions and also in government sector employment opportunities.
In 1994, Mandal commission was constituted to see into the reservations and see whether there was any further requirement. The commission came out with a report suggesting reservations even for the backward classes. This did not go down well with the people and hence was not implemented. Anyway a few states were delighted by the idea as it would increase their political mileage and implemented it. The states included Tamil Nadu (no wonder). Now I would like to throw light on some of the parameters that are used to determine whether the caste you belong to is backward or isn’t. If more than 50% of women in your community are employed then you are doomed to be backward. Also if most of your community has to walk more than 0.5 km for clean water or most girls get married before 17, your community is called backward. Though all these criteria are obsolete when applied to city dwellers, these metro people are the ones who are going to make use of these reservations. And hence those walking half a km for water and getting married before 17 are going to continue doing it and are least bothered about all these developments.
Actually I would like to put the blame on our parents for keeping the caste system alive. Although educated they all have married within their castes thus allowing casteism to thrive. What if everyone had married otherwise, then we will be facing another sort of crisis where in a method cannot be found to classify us and hence we wouldn’t be subject to reservation. This was what I was thinking, but then my dear friend told me that once such an intercaste marriage takes place, then the child can have any one of the parents caste (something for you to ruminate on).
But I think we need not worry about our futures because it is in the safe hands of people like Arjun Singh, our HRD ministry (Was the portfolio given by lots). Also our APJ’s view is that the number of seats in premier institutions should become large enough to render reservations meaningless (very plausible). And our beloved PM does not want to comment on this issue other than asking the medicos to give up. Anyway I cannot understand why the medicos are striking. Most have gained admission into the premier medical institute and are settled with their lives. I thought they were doing it to gain some media coverage and also bunk a few inescapable classes. Again my knowledgeable friend pointed out that PG programmes in medicine which have a very miniscule intake have reservations.
What irks me more is the pro protestors. What are they protesting for?? It is like accepting that they have been discriminated by the society this long, which no urban dweller can claim for sure. And Chennai has seen more protests supporting reservations rather than against it (something to be proud about).
So what can be the likely solution for this problem?? While helping the people in the lower strata come up, the general quota students should also not be hindered. One possibility is to take a census again to ascertain the population of each community and then go along with the proposed reservations. Also children of people who have already benefited from reservations (through education or employment) can be exempted and brought under general category. Also to premier institutes, some practical cutoffs must be kept for reserved communities. Like say the SC/STs not scoring atleast 80% of the lowest general category student can be doomed inadmissible. This will also benefit them later as they won’t find it much difficult to cope with the course pressures. I say this because my intellectual friend told me yesterday that one of his classmates is joining IIM-B this year with an absolute score of 22 in CAT. Now that is infuriating.
It has been a while since my last post and I am still wondering on what to blog about.
Although there have been myriad articles on the reservation controversy, here is my take on it.
Reservations were first introduced eons ago (50 years to be precise) to account for the social and economic inequality that prevailed then. Also then, social status was directly linked to economic position. According to the census taken then, nearly 22.5% were classified as SC/STs and 30% as OBCs. As the first step, the SC/STs were promoted using reservations. The basic purpose behind introducing such partisan, populist and seemingly unfair measures was to make up for the centuries of oppression inflicted upon the lower strata of society (SC/STs). So as to seek mercy and also to provide an even playing field, such policies were introduced in educational institutions and also in government sector employment opportunities.
In 1994, Mandal commission was constituted to see into the reservations and see whether there was any further requirement. The commission came out with a report suggesting reservations even for the backward classes. This did not go down well with the people and hence was not implemented. Anyway a few states were delighted by the idea as it would increase their political mileage and implemented it. The states included Tamil Nadu (no wonder). Now I would like to throw light on some of the parameters that are used to determine whether the caste you belong to is backward or isn’t. If more than 50% of women in your community are employed then you are doomed to be backward. Also if most of your community has to walk more than 0.5 km for clean water or most girls get married before 17, your community is called backward. Though all these criteria are obsolete when applied to city dwellers, these metro people are the ones who are going to make use of these reservations. And hence those walking half a km for water and getting married before 17 are going to continue doing it and are least bothered about all these developments.
Actually I would like to put the blame on our parents for keeping the caste system alive. Although educated they all have married within their castes thus allowing casteism to thrive. What if everyone had married otherwise, then we will be facing another sort of crisis where in a method cannot be found to classify us and hence we wouldn’t be subject to reservation. This was what I was thinking, but then my dear friend told me that once such an intercaste marriage takes place, then the child can have any one of the parents caste (something for you to ruminate on).
But I think we need not worry about our futures because it is in the safe hands of people like Arjun Singh, our HRD ministry (Was the portfolio given by lots). Also our APJ’s view is that the number of seats in premier institutions should become large enough to render reservations meaningless (very plausible). And our beloved PM does not want to comment on this issue other than asking the medicos to give up. Anyway I cannot understand why the medicos are striking. Most have gained admission into the premier medical institute and are settled with their lives. I thought they were doing it to gain some media coverage and also bunk a few inescapable classes. Again my knowledgeable friend pointed out that PG programmes in medicine which have a very miniscule intake have reservations.
What irks me more is the pro protestors. What are they protesting for?? It is like accepting that they have been discriminated by the society this long, which no urban dweller can claim for sure. And Chennai has seen more protests supporting reservations rather than against it (something to be proud about).
So what can be the likely solution for this problem?? While helping the people in the lower strata come up, the general quota students should also not be hindered. One possibility is to take a census again to ascertain the population of each community and then go along with the proposed reservations. Also children of people who have already benefited from reservations (through education or employment) can be exempted and brought under general category. Also to premier institutes, some practical cutoffs must be kept for reserved communities. Like say the SC/STs not scoring atleast 80% of the lowest general category student can be doomed inadmissible. This will also benefit them later as they won’t find it much difficult to cope with the course pressures. I say this because my intellectual friend told me yesterday that one of his classmates is joining IIM-B this year with an absolute score of 22 in CAT. Now that is infuriating.
Friday, May 19, 2006
Volatility
A euphemism for people losing hard earned money in the stock market. As I am writing this article the BSE and NSE are tumbling down from dizzying heights. It is the time investors feel that they should have booked their profits earlier and come out of the stock market. Others like me tell themselves that it is all like a wave and we are just experiencing a trough. So what made me write this article?? Probably the thousands I lost.
The fall has been attributed to a number of reasons. One of them being the fear about rising inflation rates in the US. Indian inflation rate has hovered around 5% for some time. The US rate which was much lesser before is also feared to approach the Indian rate panicking investors all around the world.
The fall has also been attributed to slow global economic progress. Although countries like India and China have impressive GDPs of about 8% and 10% respectively, the global GDP has been an abysmal 4.5%. Also the developing countries stock markets have shown a general decline in the past week with the Indian market falling steeply.
As happens with any global phenomenon, it is natural to place the blame on global oil prices. The economics behind world oil prices is interesting. The OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) controls about 67% of the world oil reserves and hence dictates world oil prices. Whenever it wants to raise prices, it just reduces production. Also the producers never try to reduce the prices as it directly encourages consumption which in turn leads to global warming. Now Venezuela is coming forward as a major source of oil due to high oil prices. The quality of oil in Venezuela is low grade and costs a lot to be made usable. But the high prices now make it possible allowing Venezuela to produce oil. Also one interesting fact is that in India from the time I have started driving two wheelers a litre of petrol cost 20Rs then in 1990’s and now it is around Rs50 in 2006. But amazingly the US gas price has been ranging from $1.91 to $2.68 per gallon(3.8 litres) for the past fifty years. The lowest oil price is in Venezuela costing about 0.12$ per gallon. The US with its gas guzzling SUV’s is the largest consumer of world oil but has done little to reduce dependence on oil. Instead it has only tried to secure its supply by constructing Strategic Petroleum Reserves which are nothing but underground salt caverns which can hold large amount of oil. Their reserves can help them hold out for sixty days in case of any crisis.
SPR at Bryan Mound, Texas
The initial stock market fall can also be attributed to the left grasping power in West Bengal and Kerala, thus causing the foreign investors to worry and pull out ( fall of 500 points in a day in sensex) which further created a domino effect including the mutual funds to pull out(A fall of eight hundred points in the sensex). Last comes the retail investor who pulled out in order to reduce his losses. But still I stay invested. Why???? I think it must be because I often show high risk behavior in the market and I believe that any one’s risk appetite is inversely proportional to their age.
For anyone wishing to become part of Dalal street, I think that this is the best time to enter. As even all blue chips are priced at a discount, it is a good time for investors to enter the market. But alas I have no more cash to pump in. (My bank balance now is about 1000 against a minimum balance of 5000).
The Indian growth story will continue and I firmly believe that inspite of these corrections, the sensex will surge ahead and outperform expectations. So my kind advice would be to stay invested and to increase your portfolios.
For those interested to enter the market now,my recommends would be
1. Infosys technologies
2. Reliance capital
3. ITC
4. Pantaloon retail
5. ONGC
A euphemism for people losing hard earned money in the stock market. As I am writing this article the BSE and NSE are tumbling down from dizzying heights. It is the time investors feel that they should have booked their profits earlier and come out of the stock market. Others like me tell themselves that it is all like a wave and we are just experiencing a trough. So what made me write this article?? Probably the thousands I lost.
The fall has been attributed to a number of reasons. One of them being the fear about rising inflation rates in the US. Indian inflation rate has hovered around 5% for some time. The US rate which was much lesser before is also feared to approach the Indian rate panicking investors all around the world.
The fall has also been attributed to slow global economic progress. Although countries like India and China have impressive GDPs of about 8% and 10% respectively, the global GDP has been an abysmal 4.5%. Also the developing countries stock markets have shown a general decline in the past week with the Indian market falling steeply.
As happens with any global phenomenon, it is natural to place the blame on global oil prices. The economics behind world oil prices is interesting. The OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) controls about 67% of the world oil reserves and hence dictates world oil prices. Whenever it wants to raise prices, it just reduces production. Also the producers never try to reduce the prices as it directly encourages consumption which in turn leads to global warming. Now Venezuela is coming forward as a major source of oil due to high oil prices. The quality of oil in Venezuela is low grade and costs a lot to be made usable. But the high prices now make it possible allowing Venezuela to produce oil. Also one interesting fact is that in India from the time I have started driving two wheelers a litre of petrol cost 20Rs then in 1990’s and now it is around Rs50 in 2006. But amazingly the US gas price has been ranging from $1.91 to $2.68 per gallon(3.8 litres) for the past fifty years. The lowest oil price is in Venezuela costing about 0.12$ per gallon. The US with its gas guzzling SUV’s is the largest consumer of world oil but has done little to reduce dependence on oil. Instead it has only tried to secure its supply by constructing Strategic Petroleum Reserves which are nothing but underground salt caverns which can hold large amount of oil. Their reserves can help them hold out for sixty days in case of any crisis.
SPR at Bryan Mound, Texas
The initial stock market fall can also be attributed to the left grasping power in West Bengal and Kerala, thus causing the foreign investors to worry and pull out ( fall of 500 points in a day in sensex) which further created a domino effect including the mutual funds to pull out(A fall of eight hundred points in the sensex). Last comes the retail investor who pulled out in order to reduce his losses. But still I stay invested. Why???? I think it must be because I often show high risk behavior in the market and I believe that any one’s risk appetite is inversely proportional to their age.
For anyone wishing to become part of Dalal street, I think that this is the best time to enter. As even all blue chips are priced at a discount, it is a good time for investors to enter the market. But alas I have no more cash to pump in. (My bank balance now is about 1000 against a minimum balance of 5000).
The Indian growth story will continue and I firmly believe that inspite of these corrections, the sensex will surge ahead and outperform expectations. So my kind advice would be to stay invested and to increase your portfolios.
For those interested to enter the market now,my recommends would be
1. Infosys technologies
2. Reliance capital
3. ITC
4. Pantaloon retail
5. ONGC
Friday, May 12, 2006
Friday, May 05, 2006
KNOW MY MATES 6:
This is about Sriram Sivaram popularly known as Jillu. Sometimes as Jillu mani. Please don’t think that the mani was added as a mark of respect. It was because of a silly incident. Jillu was taking bath in some hostel bathroom without a lock and one guy just walked in. He din’t see anything unusual or strange but still felt that the title of ‘mani’ should follow his name(Mani in tamil means Bell).
He is a jolly type guy caring the least about studies and classes. But before exams gets possessed by a demonic urge and swots through the course contents. Often learns from S.A.Kannan. He is a 9 pointer. You may think why I am mentioning this and why the fuck am I bothered, but he is my next roll number. He has helped me a few times in my exams.(ok thats an understatement) And I have helped him back by providing answers to questions that he might have not studied (happens once in a blue moon) and also in one another way. When the evaluator corrects his paper after mine, to him jillu’s paper looks like an oasis in the desert. So with his own efforts and mine to provide the much needed contrast, he has bagged numero uno of class once.
Although he is the topper, his interest is in the English language and other non technical fields. Has no technical inclination and if he converts IIM-B (waitlist32), will take it up ditching the Ivy league admits he has got.
He is very frank with his mom. Has teased her sometimes, saying that he has fallen in love and hence going to marry some girl and not someone they arrange. But I don’t understand the fun in that banter. He has a big crush on vp of our class. Anyways he, like many others in the class hasn’t done anything about it.
Currently he is in a little depression because his crush and long time girl friend has become committed to someone else(edited later as per sriram's request). The people from his hostel wing have reported that they hear wails from his room late night. I hope he soon overcomes the loss and gets a move on with someone else. And dude why do you cry for that??
And yeah I forgot to mention his characteristic trait. He is a compulsive stickler for time. Jus kidding. This guy never turns up on time. Whenever you call him, for whatever reason, he just answers that he will be there in five minutes. But his five minutes takes an eternity. So now you are forewarned.
And he is the fastest in SMSing. The time taken for his replies is only the time taken by the network to deliver them. He has an odd habit of dancing when in conversation with a group. Now I think we guys have made him kick the habit, but it used to be a pretty sight to watch him do that.
This is about Sriram Sivaram popularly known as Jillu. Sometimes as Jillu mani. Please don’t think that the mani was added as a mark of respect. It was because of a silly incident. Jillu was taking bath in some hostel bathroom without a lock and one guy just walked in. He din’t see anything unusual or strange but still felt that the title of ‘mani’ should follow his name(Mani in tamil means Bell).
He is a jolly type guy caring the least about studies and classes. But before exams gets possessed by a demonic urge and swots through the course contents. Often learns from S.A.Kannan. He is a 9 pointer. You may think why I am mentioning this and why the fuck am I bothered, but he is my next roll number. He has helped me a few times in my exams.(ok thats an understatement) And I have helped him back by providing answers to questions that he might have not studied (happens once in a blue moon) and also in one another way. When the evaluator corrects his paper after mine, to him jillu’s paper looks like an oasis in the desert. So with his own efforts and mine to provide the much needed contrast, he has bagged numero uno of class once.
Although he is the topper, his interest is in the English language and other non technical fields. Has no technical inclination and if he converts IIM-B (waitlist32), will take it up ditching the Ivy league admits he has got.
He is very frank with his mom. Has teased her sometimes, saying that he has fallen in love and hence going to marry some girl and not someone they arrange. But I don’t understand the fun in that banter. He has a big crush on vp of our class. Anyways he, like many others in the class hasn’t done anything about it.
Currently he is in a little depression because his crush and long time girl friend has become committed to someone else(edited later as per sriram's request). The people from his hostel wing have reported that they hear wails from his room late night. I hope he soon overcomes the loss and gets a move on with someone else. And dude why do you cry for that??
And yeah I forgot to mention his characteristic trait. He is a compulsive stickler for time. Jus kidding. This guy never turns up on time. Whenever you call him, for whatever reason, he just answers that he will be there in five minutes. But his five minutes takes an eternity. So now you are forewarned.
And he is the fastest in SMSing. The time taken for his replies is only the time taken by the network to deliver them. He has an odd habit of dancing when in conversation with a group. Now I think we guys have made him kick the habit, but it used to be a pretty sight to watch him do that.
KNOW MY MATES 5:
This one is about Sisyphus Raja. As you can make out, the first thing people notice about him is his name. Peculiar. Ain’t it? So is it good or bad to have such a peculiar name instead of the ubiquitous karthiks and kumars. This is worth a debate. Lets see the pros and cons. A peculiar name is advantageous when you are getting introduced first time to a girl. You can be pretty sure that any girl who wants to talk something for the sake of talking, is going to ask what kind of a name it is. Since its your name you must be knowing stuff about it and can go on crapping. And I am sure Sisy has used this topic for flirting extensively.
Now the cons of having a less known name. In the classroom while rollcall any teacher can quickly remember the face that goes with this sort of a weird name. So it is difficult for others to give proxy for him. However with progressing semesters, lecturers became more dumb or lazy or both, that we got away with proxy calls even for SISYPHUS.
And about the name, I don’t remember much. Once Sisy was explaining to some lecturer that it was a Greek mythological character or rather a stone that gathers moss while rolling (Weird huh!! Forgive me Sisy I have a very poor memory) or something of that sort.
The first time you talk with him, you will feel WOW this guy knows his things and gadgets and is trendy. (hmm I’m not going to say what you are thinking) He spends a fortune on changing his mobile phone as often as the season changes. He plays a lot of PS2, but the funny thing is that he lost out on a challenge in his favorite game NFS to a rookie. But he drives his Baleno a lot better.
He loves to drink. It seems it all started when he was in his primary school. During the vacations in his native place, his parents used to mix some beer in his milk so that the poor child doesn’t wake up in the middle of the night hearing spooky sounds. Thus he picked up the habit and is now a virtuoso.The puzzling thing about him is that we can’t find when he is sober and when he isn’t. The enigma’s favorite tee says “I’m home. Take me drunk” This sums up Sisy for u.
Has a long list of girl friends. Was very close with one in first semester but then broke up. Anyone in our group who mentions that sported a black eye for a week. Then in third year he fell bigtime for Divya. During our combined studies, he used to slip away to dreamland imagining some raunchy tamil numbers casting himself and her. Now has got a lot of close friends in Coimbatore.
He is going to become the next GM of his dad’s company as soon as clears his papers and gets through college. And he has promised me that he will give some inside info for me about his company’s share in the Madras stock exchange, but he still doesn’t what its face value or current valuation.
He had vowed to finish off every lecturer who was mean to him. Anytime he gets scolded, the next line he says is “enna! thookidilama?”, but still I havn’t seen him make one flying. The funniest incident between us happened during an Antennas assessment test. Sisy and I had not prepared for the test for obvious reasons. We depended on Gowri to show us the answer sheets. Gowri finished his first sheet and passed it to me. I scribbled it and sent my sheet to Sisy. As happens in the game ‘Passing the secret’, the content got degraded after every hop. Then when I returned Gowri’s paper, one more guy in our middle wanted to see. So Gowri kept his answer sheet inclined. Gowri was absorbed in the questions that he didn’t notice our antenna teacher seeing him. So he got caught in the act (no pun intended). We thought he would plead and ask sorry. But dude he surprised us and even the staff. He started arguing how he could be treated like this when he had studied all night. Finding it illogical, he was given an instant zero. Sisy and I came out of the hall contented with our performance but feeling sorry for Gowri. But this is the clincher. The sheets were returned with me scoring 2 and Sisy scoring 1 on twenty five.
However Sisy, Gowri and I cleared the subject when the class topper and one electronics nerd were given arrears.
This one is about Sisyphus Raja. As you can make out, the first thing people notice about him is his name. Peculiar. Ain’t it? So is it good or bad to have such a peculiar name instead of the ubiquitous karthiks and kumars. This is worth a debate. Lets see the pros and cons. A peculiar name is advantageous when you are getting introduced first time to a girl. You can be pretty sure that any girl who wants to talk something for the sake of talking, is going to ask what kind of a name it is. Since its your name you must be knowing stuff about it and can go on crapping. And I am sure Sisy has used this topic for flirting extensively.
Now the cons of having a less known name. In the classroom while rollcall any teacher can quickly remember the face that goes with this sort of a weird name. So it is difficult for others to give proxy for him. However with progressing semesters, lecturers became more dumb or lazy or both, that we got away with proxy calls even for SISYPHUS.
And about the name, I don’t remember much. Once Sisy was explaining to some lecturer that it was a Greek mythological character or rather a stone that gathers moss while rolling (Weird huh!! Forgive me Sisy I have a very poor memory) or something of that sort.
The first time you talk with him, you will feel WOW this guy knows his things and gadgets and is trendy. (hmm I’m not going to say what you are thinking) He spends a fortune on changing his mobile phone as often as the season changes. He plays a lot of PS2, but the funny thing is that he lost out on a challenge in his favorite game NFS to a rookie. But he drives his Baleno a lot better.
He loves to drink. It seems it all started when he was in his primary school. During the vacations in his native place, his parents used to mix some beer in his milk so that the poor child doesn’t wake up in the middle of the night hearing spooky sounds. Thus he picked up the habit and is now a virtuoso.The puzzling thing about him is that we can’t find when he is sober and when he isn’t. The enigma’s favorite tee says “I’m home. Take me drunk” This sums up Sisy for u.
Has a long list of girl friends. Was very close with one in first semester but then broke up. Anyone in our group who mentions that sported a black eye for a week. Then in third year he fell bigtime for Divya. During our combined studies, he used to slip away to dreamland imagining some raunchy tamil numbers casting himself and her. Now has got a lot of close friends in Coimbatore.
He is going to become the next GM of his dad’s company as soon as clears his papers and gets through college. And he has promised me that he will give some inside info for me about his company’s share in the Madras stock exchange, but he still doesn’t what its face value or current valuation.
He had vowed to finish off every lecturer who was mean to him. Anytime he gets scolded, the next line he says is “enna! thookidilama?”, but still I havn’t seen him make one flying. The funniest incident between us happened during an Antennas assessment test. Sisy and I had not prepared for the test for obvious reasons. We depended on Gowri to show us the answer sheets. Gowri finished his first sheet and passed it to me. I scribbled it and sent my sheet to Sisy. As happens in the game ‘Passing the secret’, the content got degraded after every hop. Then when I returned Gowri’s paper, one more guy in our middle wanted to see. So Gowri kept his answer sheet inclined. Gowri was absorbed in the questions that he didn’t notice our antenna teacher seeing him. So he got caught in the act (no pun intended). We thought he would plead and ask sorry. But dude he surprised us and even the staff. He started arguing how he could be treated like this when he had studied all night. Finding it illogical, he was given an instant zero. Sisy and I came out of the hall contented with our performance but feeling sorry for Gowri. But this is the clincher. The sheets were returned with me scoring 2 and Sisy scoring 1 on twenty five.
However Sisy, Gowri and I cleared the subject when the class topper and one electronics nerd were given arrears.
THE ELECTIONS
This May, the elections in Tamil Nadu has very much become an issue of selecting a party which offers the best freebies. So the choice is not between DMK or ADMK, its between a T.V or a computer. This time it seems I have no goods that is of use to me in the freebie list. So I think I will refrain from voting. But next time around, I will wait for the manifestos to be declared before buying any gadgets.
Now as you all know the promised things include T.Vs, computers, gold for marriage, compensation for maternal expenses(may be they got the idea after seeing Ajith’s Thirupathi) and subsidized rice. Today ADMK has announced that it will get rid of CAS in Chennai if it comes to power. For one instant I just thanked my mom for pushing me to get the voter’s ID but then that’s déjà vu. Didn’t Kalanidhi Maran tell the same thing for the parliament elections??
So to make people like us to vote, what freebies do we require?? Let us see.
• free movie tickets
• free Pulsars to unemployed youth
• free unlimited broadband packages for existing users
• free set top boxes(if they r’nt going to scrap it)
• monthly free 10 ltrs petrol and the next 10 at a subsidized cost of 30Rs/ltr
• free mobiles
• free jeans in ration shops
Hmm I can keep adding on. Anyway so before the next elections please postpone buying of any of the above said articles because who knows, you may get it free.
And any north Indians reading this, I suggest you have your weddings in Tamil Nadu as you will get gold for free. Anyone being pregnant is also welcome. If something free is offered for honeymoons, then I think many Indians will like shifting their bases to Tamil Nadu.
This May, the elections in Tamil Nadu has very much become an issue of selecting a party which offers the best freebies. So the choice is not between DMK or ADMK, its between a T.V or a computer. This time it seems I have no goods that is of use to me in the freebie list. So I think I will refrain from voting. But next time around, I will wait for the manifestos to be declared before buying any gadgets.
Now as you all know the promised things include T.Vs, computers, gold for marriage, compensation for maternal expenses(may be they got the idea after seeing Ajith’s Thirupathi) and subsidized rice. Today ADMK has announced that it will get rid of CAS in Chennai if it comes to power. For one instant I just thanked my mom for pushing me to get the voter’s ID but then that’s déjà vu. Didn’t Kalanidhi Maran tell the same thing for the parliament elections??
So to make people like us to vote, what freebies do we require?? Let us see.
• free movie tickets
• free Pulsars to unemployed youth
• free unlimited broadband packages for existing users
• free set top boxes(if they r’nt going to scrap it)
• monthly free 10 ltrs petrol and the next 10 at a subsidized cost of 30Rs/ltr
• free mobiles
• free jeans in ration shops
Hmm I can keep adding on. Anyway so before the next elections please postpone buying of any of the above said articles because who knows, you may get it free.
And any north Indians reading this, I suggest you have your weddings in Tamil Nadu as you will get gold for free. Anyone being pregnant is also welcome. If something free is offered for honeymoons, then I think many Indians will like shifting their bases to Tamil Nadu.
Monday, May 01, 2006
KNOW MY MATES 4:
This one is about the studious guy in our group. Oh yes!! There is at least one among us who is good at engineering education. Prakash is a weird guy. He will look the most careless jolly kind of guy (like me) from the outset but boy he can swot it out if required.
A total veggie he likes to eat anything but always in multiple servings.
He is yet to start shaving. But he may tell you that he has already begun. I would suggest you to take a look at him and then decide for yourself.
He likes gaming and tv. During the many nights we have spent with him, gaming on our PS2 we usually doze off before dawn breaks. But he stays put and continues…… The same applies to nights before tests too. He can be awake for stretches of perpetuity without even winking and can also keep you awake alongside. Sisy will corroborate that.
Before tests Prakash has a practice of writing down whatever he has learnt. If you are not careful enough and let your notebooks strewn around while studying with him, you can be assured of a totally filled up notebook when you wake up.
He has a soft corner for AB batch’s Aishwarya, but we lost interest in digging up that issue as he has an uncanny knack of avoiding discussing his issues although we all may be interested. The latest in that is that he was spotted going around the hostel for her photo on the pretext of loading the farewell photos on his thumb drive.
For his GRE prep, he studied the Barons wordlist upside down. Starting from almost ground zero, in a month he was so adept in it that when we say a word he could reel of the wordlist number and the word after and before it.
And boy he does have a very loud voice. He is the best contemporary example for a stentorian. But you will never believe me because he fakes such an innocent look after a very rude comment that even the person beside him cannot point him.
He has not yet watched porn. Hard to believe but that is what he says. However with his aptitude he can learn things fast and so need not worry.
Saturday, April 08, 2006
A dirge
This article is dedicated to one of the lives lost in our campus. Our campus although innocuous has got the potential to take away lives. This may be shocking to you, but this is true story which can be verified by asking any of our hostellers. If you are faint hearted please do not proceed further as the gory details of the death are hard to digest.
It was a sunny day as usual and there was this one poor rat. It lived in abject poverty that it lived in a really wretched place, a place even dreaded by humans to live, the boys hostel. The food the rat used to have was worse and scarce. However it used to feel contented after seeing the food had by the hostellers. Atleast his was better than theirs.
As usual after his frugal lunch he was taking a walk on the roof when the untoward incident happened. One wrong foot and he fell into the water tank. His screams and shouts fell on deaf ears. He struggled for quite some time before giving in.
The even more pathetic part is that he was found only after 3 days. Also his identity couldn’t be established. His body didn’t even receive a proper send off. The three days old bloated corpse was just thrown away without a decent burial that even an orphan human deserves. If only the hostellers had known to use their sense of smell they could have found it out earlier and the rites could have been done a lot earlier.
I hereby kindly request you to observe a two minute silence for the one who has departed from our midst. I also wish such horrible incidents don’t take place in the future in the campus. Even if a rat has to die, can’t it find a more respectable place to end his life rather than a filthy tank that smells so much that even a rotten corpse doesn’t add to the odour.
This article is dedicated to one of the lives lost in our campus. Our campus although innocuous has got the potential to take away lives. This may be shocking to you, but this is true story which can be verified by asking any of our hostellers. If you are faint hearted please do not proceed further as the gory details of the death are hard to digest.
It was a sunny day as usual and there was this one poor rat. It lived in abject poverty that it lived in a really wretched place, a place even dreaded by humans to live, the boys hostel. The food the rat used to have was worse and scarce. However it used to feel contented after seeing the food had by the hostellers. Atleast his was better than theirs.
As usual after his frugal lunch he was taking a walk on the roof when the untoward incident happened. One wrong foot and he fell into the water tank. His screams and shouts fell on deaf ears. He struggled for quite some time before giving in.
The even more pathetic part is that he was found only after 3 days. Also his identity couldn’t be established. His body didn’t even receive a proper send off. The three days old bloated corpse was just thrown away without a decent burial that even an orphan human deserves. If only the hostellers had known to use their sense of smell they could have found it out earlier and the rites could have been done a lot earlier.
I hereby kindly request you to observe a two minute silence for the one who has departed from our midst. I also wish such horrible incidents don’t take place in the future in the campus. Even if a rat has to die, can’t it find a more respectable place to end his life rather than a filthy tank that smells so much that even a rotten corpse doesn’t add to the odour.
Thursday, April 06, 2006
KNOW MY MATES 3:
In this edition lets come to know about Saravana Kumar a.k.a ojak, manmadan.
This guy comes from Chrompet. He was the first guy I knew in the class, thanks to our common friend Arun. When I was first introduced to him, this guy was a calm, polite, uninteresting kind of guy. But boy, I couldn’t have been more wrong.
U can never believe how intently he looks at girls. Has a visual memory with infinite capacity. Also takes pains in collecting their details. When we see a girl in campus and turn towards him, he starts reeling out her name, year, branch, address etc.
Of late he has lost interest in his database operations and guys are terribly missing his services.
He belongs to the aristocracy in his native village near Tuticorin. He is touted to be their next nattamai (godfather). I bet he will do a hell of a job with it if he takes it up.
U never feel bored with him, but once he decides to make an arse out of you, I bet u become a really dumb one. Gowri will vouch for it.
He is the first one to watch all new movie releases come what may. Doesn’t allow academic schedule to affect his attendance at cinema halls. He is the last one to start studying before any test but manages to breeze through the exams. Of course we both love taking the easier route with me being a little more adventurous.
I have seen him angry just once when we played a silly joke on him. We had put up a notice in class saying he had lost one of his personal possessions (worn at all times but still I don’t know what it is called in english). We had managed to clip his photo too on it. He was fuming with anger after seeing it. Poor sakthivel who went and asked him abt it got slapped hard.
He enjoys being with his friends (guys). To believe how big the crowd is, u should have seen him during any of our culturals. Outside working hours of college, it really takes some time even for his parents to find out where he is. Usually stays in any of his friends house and occasionally visits home to recharge his wallet.
He gets smitten quite often. When he appears to have found a soul mate as he puts it, he states some inane reason and backs off. Then again starts from ground zero with renewed vigour. The reasons can range from another guy in the class being interested in her to a bumpy ride.
He is great company to be with but can drive you crazy if he wishes that way. So beware and don’t get him on your wrong side. His way of annoying someone is weird and admirable if you don’t like that someone.
I wish this guy settles down with someone instead of just bird watching (an euphemism he tells for his hobby).
In this edition lets come to know about Saravana Kumar a.k.a ojak, manmadan.
This guy comes from Chrompet. He was the first guy I knew in the class, thanks to our common friend Arun. When I was first introduced to him, this guy was a calm, polite, uninteresting kind of guy. But boy, I couldn’t have been more wrong.
U can never believe how intently he looks at girls. Has a visual memory with infinite capacity. Also takes pains in collecting their details. When we see a girl in campus and turn towards him, he starts reeling out her name, year, branch, address etc.
Of late he has lost interest in his database operations and guys are terribly missing his services.
He belongs to the aristocracy in his native village near Tuticorin. He is touted to be their next nattamai (godfather). I bet he will do a hell of a job with it if he takes it up.
U never feel bored with him, but once he decides to make an arse out of you, I bet u become a really dumb one. Gowri will vouch for it.
He is the first one to watch all new movie releases come what may. Doesn’t allow academic schedule to affect his attendance at cinema halls. He is the last one to start studying before any test but manages to breeze through the exams. Of course we both love taking the easier route with me being a little more adventurous.
I have seen him angry just once when we played a silly joke on him. We had put up a notice in class saying he had lost one of his personal possessions (worn at all times but still I don’t know what it is called in english). We had managed to clip his photo too on it. He was fuming with anger after seeing it. Poor sakthivel who went and asked him abt it got slapped hard.
He enjoys being with his friends (guys). To believe how big the crowd is, u should have seen him during any of our culturals. Outside working hours of college, it really takes some time even for his parents to find out where he is. Usually stays in any of his friends house and occasionally visits home to recharge his wallet.
He gets smitten quite often. When he appears to have found a soul mate as he puts it, he states some inane reason and backs off. Then again starts from ground zero with renewed vigour. The reasons can range from another guy in the class being interested in her to a bumpy ride.
He is great company to be with but can drive you crazy if he wishes that way. So beware and don’t get him on your wrong side. His way of annoying someone is weird and admirable if you don’t like that someone.
I wish this guy settles down with someone instead of just bird watching (an euphemism he tells for his hobby).
Friday, March 17, 2006
KNOW MY MATES 2:
Ok in this edition let us take a peek on my buddy Sathish a.k.a Dv, theriyadhu.
If he is asked any question he first says ‘don’t know’ (theriyadu) and then comes up with an answer. That has become his habit.
How this guy started to be with us is still a mystery b’cos he doesn't copy, doesn't put proxy and doesn't do anything that a righteous college student is supposed to do. Maybe opposites attract. But still he doesn’t hate us for all that.
Often you can find him roaming in the campus. This guy loves college and never likes to return home. He sometimes starts leaving for home, reaches the entrance and then comes back into the college for no obvious reason.
He is a dreamy kind of guy and is very profound in some of his replies. For example I quote one of our conversations.
Me: what r u dreaming about da??
Dv: I am thinking what I am thinking about.
Me: what the hell does that mean da?
Dv: Dei I know I am thinking of something but I can’t remember what it is.
I advise u not to pick up an argument with him b’cos the combo of brain & brawn can drive u nuts. He is a spiritually inclined person unlike others in our group. He stands for everything that others don’t. He has never stayed away from his home for a night unless accompanied by parents (discounting our IVs).
He has a great appetite for breakfast. I actually found it out accidentally. One day he told me that he was famished as he had not had his breakfast. I asked him how he manages doing that. He said he had ONLY a glass of milk, bananas, apples and porridge, but no solid breakfast.
He is nuts about a girl from EEE in our college. He met her during the NSS camp and they both got together based on their common interest in music. The one foolish thing he did was he recorded his every experience in a diary. The diary was later exposed and everyone in the class got hold of it and went through. They both form the most studious couple in college. Their conversations are mostly confined to technical crap. Their favourite hotspot is, yeah u guessed right, the library. Latest on them is that he is teaching her matlab.(did any1 of u think of such a topic to put kadalai??) Oh I forgot to mention!!! This guy is a programming geek.
Ok enough of scorn. This guy is great company to be with. He is understanding and talks sense often. He is a teetotaler and abstains from anything dubious. However he doesn’t avoid others for being wayward.
I sincerely wish that he gets a move on with his crush.
All the best dude!!!
Ok in this edition let us take a peek on my buddy Sathish a.k.a Dv, theriyadhu.
If he is asked any question he first says ‘don’t know’ (theriyadu) and then comes up with an answer. That has become his habit.
How this guy started to be with us is still a mystery b’cos he doesn't copy, doesn't put proxy and doesn't do anything that a righteous college student is supposed to do. Maybe opposites attract. But still he doesn’t hate us for all that.
Often you can find him roaming in the campus. This guy loves college and never likes to return home. He sometimes starts leaving for home, reaches the entrance and then comes back into the college for no obvious reason.
He is a dreamy kind of guy and is very profound in some of his replies. For example I quote one of our conversations.
Me: what r u dreaming about da??
Dv: I am thinking what I am thinking about.
Me: what the hell does that mean da?
Dv: Dei I know I am thinking of something but I can’t remember what it is.
I advise u not to pick up an argument with him b’cos the combo of brain & brawn can drive u nuts. He is a spiritually inclined person unlike others in our group. He stands for everything that others don’t. He has never stayed away from his home for a night unless accompanied by parents (discounting our IVs).
He has a great appetite for breakfast. I actually found it out accidentally. One day he told me that he was famished as he had not had his breakfast. I asked him how he manages doing that. He said he had ONLY a glass of milk, bananas, apples and porridge, but no solid breakfast.
He is nuts about a girl from EEE in our college. He met her during the NSS camp and they both got together based on their common interest in music. The one foolish thing he did was he recorded his every experience in a diary. The diary was later exposed and everyone in the class got hold of it and went through. They both form the most studious couple in college. Their conversations are mostly confined to technical crap. Their favourite hotspot is, yeah u guessed right, the library. Latest on them is that he is teaching her matlab.(did any1 of u think of such a topic to put kadalai??) Oh I forgot to mention!!! This guy is a programming geek.
Ok enough of scorn. This guy is great company to be with. He is understanding and talks sense often. He is a teetotaler and abstains from anything dubious. However he doesn’t avoid others for being wayward.
I sincerely wish that he gets a move on with his crush.
All the best dude!!!
Saturday, March 04, 2006
KNOW MY MATES 1:
In this series, get to know of my friends. I have tried to give a really complete picture abt them, but if i have missed out on anything please feel free to add them as comments.
My first post is going to be on my closest mate Gowri Shankar a.k.a. pandu, mokkai, direction(oops this list will be longer than this post). G.S is Hagrid like in appearance and can intimidate anyone in their first meeting but he really is meek and friendly. I say this cos once in second sem, when i threw him my answer paper for cross validation, he started trembling in the exam hall.
I have spent a lot of time with him trying to tide over the never ending series of exams. The night before the tests, we have spent more time in local tea stalls gulping tea than with our books.
On two wheels and a 100 cc engine I bet no one can beat him. This guy blazes the roads and gives his pillion riders a fright. However he has got an inherent problem with comprehending directions(He is still wondering why West Bengal is in East India). He has sent many first timers in our campus who seek directions, into a maze.
His cup of coffee ( he is a self confessed caffeine addict) includes engineering, laboratory and girls. He has a bad sense of humour and is exceptionally talented at cracking silly jokes. But he argues that girls like only that kind of jokes. We have never discouraged him on this part and have even laughed hard enough on his jokes to cause our tummies to squirm.
He can spend hours on the phone droning with girls, often allowing me to doze off during our so called exam preps. When there is a gathering of four or more, someone invariably starts bullying him and he ends up being the arse. However he always seems to enjoy it. He is a completely different person, when he deals with his little brother. He completely bosses over him on the pretext of teaching him maths.
He prefers tamil movies over english ones. He is crazy about Ajith and Jyothika , the most rotund filmstars. Currently he is learing japanese and is into PS2 gaming ( non racing games).
His Crushes: 1. A girl from G.I. He had allegedly proposed her and this became common knowledge during a stupid birthday party celebration.
2. One of our classmates. Too obvious to give the name and I also hate defamation suits.
3. A girl he met recently in a wedding ceremony. He had soiled his shirt in an attempt to grab the video of that marriage. Now his desktop is full of snapshots from the wedding.
Now on a serious vein, he is a great guy to be with, helpful and a hardworker. Frankly he deserves a longer list than the one above. He has got a great family. A really understanding mom(she even knows abt the GI girl) and a cool dad. I owe him a lot more than the previous movie ticket and the lost John Grisham's 'Partner'.
In this series, get to know of my friends. I have tried to give a really complete picture abt them, but if i have missed out on anything please feel free to add them as comments.
My first post is going to be on my closest mate Gowri Shankar a.k.a. pandu, mokkai, direction(oops this list will be longer than this post). G.S is Hagrid like in appearance and can intimidate anyone in their first meeting but he really is meek and friendly. I say this cos once in second sem, when i threw him my answer paper for cross validation, he started trembling in the exam hall.
I have spent a lot of time with him trying to tide over the never ending series of exams. The night before the tests, we have spent more time in local tea stalls gulping tea than with our books.
On two wheels and a 100 cc engine I bet no one can beat him. This guy blazes the roads and gives his pillion riders a fright. However he has got an inherent problem with comprehending directions(He is still wondering why West Bengal is in East India). He has sent many first timers in our campus who seek directions, into a maze.
His cup of coffee ( he is a self confessed caffeine addict) includes engineering, laboratory and girls. He has a bad sense of humour and is exceptionally talented at cracking silly jokes. But he argues that girls like only that kind of jokes. We have never discouraged him on this part and have even laughed hard enough on his jokes to cause our tummies to squirm.
He can spend hours on the phone droning with girls, often allowing me to doze off during our so called exam preps. When there is a gathering of four or more, someone invariably starts bullying him and he ends up being the arse. However he always seems to enjoy it. He is a completely different person, when he deals with his little brother. He completely bosses over him on the pretext of teaching him maths.
He prefers tamil movies over english ones. He is crazy about Ajith and Jyothika , the most rotund filmstars. Currently he is learing japanese and is into PS2 gaming ( non racing games).
His Crushes: 1. A girl from G.I. He had allegedly proposed her and this became common knowledge during a stupid birthday party celebration.
2. One of our classmates. Too obvious to give the name and I also hate defamation suits.
3. A girl he met recently in a wedding ceremony. He had soiled his shirt in an attempt to grab the video of that marriage. Now his desktop is full of snapshots from the wedding.
Now on a serious vein, he is a great guy to be with, helpful and a hardworker. Frankly he deserves a longer list than the one above. He has got a great family. A really understanding mom(she even knows abt the GI girl) and a cool dad. I owe him a lot more than the previous movie ticket and the lost John Grisham's 'Partner'.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
ESPIONAGE
From times immemorial spying has been an important ingredient of war. Artifice and deception have been employed to win battles emphasizing that ‘All is fair in love and war’. From the Trojan horse in
First let us get acquainted with some espionage parlance. ‘ELINT’ stands for electronic intelligence sometimes also called signals intelligence or ‘SIGNINT’. ‘HUMINT’ stands for human intelligence. Any spy in unfriendly territory is called an ‘agent’ or ‘asset’. Documents are classified as ‘Eyes only’ meaning they cannot be copied and ‘Ears only’ meaning it is too sensitive even to be written down. ‘Dead drop’ is a place where an agent can drop some material to pass onto the agency. It can be any place that is not suspicious like under a loose slab in a cemetery or in a deserted house. And the drop can be intimated to the agency by some innocuous chalk mark in some other pre agreed place or some obituary ad in the newspaper. When an agent is ‘neutralized’, it means he has been exposed and promptly executed. A ‘wet job’ means one which involves bloody duels. A ‘dry job’ means losing one’s tail(eyes following).
Spying is a job full of risks and uncertainties. Exposed agents are executed even without a courtroom trial. An eligible spy is one who has a sociable nature and can pass on as a local in his area of operation. There are two ways in which spies can be recruited. One way is by finding an eligible person, briefing him and then sending him into hostile territory under cover as some innocent tourist or businessman. The second way is to recruit a person already working in the enemy regime in some influential position. Usually such people have three reasons to turn traitors. The first reason can be money. Or secondly they can turn traitors due to sheer frustration on their own rulers. The third motive is the most bizarre one and any agency’s nightmare. The traitors may be psychopaths who do not show any clear motive and the agency has to risk itself in believing such data sources. Recruiting spies to work for another country has become a major HR exercise and the recruiters look for some discontentment in their potential interviewees.
Espionage involves cutting edge technology. Planting bugs and cams, tapping telephone lines and satellite reconnaissance are some of the fruitions of technology. For example the Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle of the U.S can fly at a height of 36,000 feet and carry on both reconnaissance and attacking roles. It has powerful cameras including IR imaging (for lowlight and night vision) and synthetic aperture radar( for haze or fog removal). It carries hellfire missiles and can do a 24 hour sortie fully loaded. The commands for navigation and combat are transmitted by a control station miles away over a C band Line Of Sight data link or through Ku band when LOS is not possible. Such advanced military expertise help in reducing casualties for the side employing it and it tilts the balance in their favor. Even with such tools, there can be no substitute for HUMINT.
Now let us take a look at a few intelligence agencies around the world and their past activities. Uncle Sam’s is the CIA(Central Investigative Agency). The CIA shot into prominence because of its activities during the cold war. Among their many missions, one of them having repercussions even now was the recruitment of Islam radicals to fight against the Soviet invasion of
The most notorious of the intelligence agencies is the Israeli Mossad. It has been alleged to be involved in many kidnappings, assassinations and passport forgery. One famous incident involving the Mossad is the audio surveillance of Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev’s secret speech denouncing Stalin. The Mossad which had obtained the audio by some means from a politburo meeting handed it over to the CIA. One another interesting event involving Mossad was the assassination of Gerald Vincent Bull, a Canadian engineer. He was a pioneer in rocket technology and was involved in building mammoth guns that could fire rockets into very high altitudes with much less expense compared to conventional technology.
The Indian intelligence agency is called RAW(Research & Analysis Wing). It works under the PM and the parliament does not know about its operations. It has a budget of more than 2000 crore rupees. The main focus of RAW is on
The Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of
Spying, as an art of war is going to be immortal and in the future will dictate many decisions to be made. Spying skills from lock picking to ELINT are going to be used not only in Bond movies, but in real life situations. Any advanced strategy game (PS2 or Xbox) cannot give you the thrills that a spy experiences during his missions.
oops too late to post it now
its a summary of year 2005 wrote it b4 but forgot to post
so here it is
its a summary of year 2005 wrote it b4 but forgot to post
so here it is
KALEIDOSCOPE
“A look back at 2005. Views ranging from cricket to our campus”
2005 had quiet a morose beginning. The aftermath of the tsunami is still fresh in our minds. To add to the woes a killer quake and devastating hurricanes rocked terra firma. Indian metros like Chennai, Mumbai and
J.K.Rowling came out with her sixth book, ‘Harry Potter and the half blood prince’. The book has increased the frenzy further, leaving much to be completed in the final book. The movie version of the fourth book Goblet of fire has found a breath of fresh air under a U.K production banner. Rupert Grint playing Ron now has become a potential candidate to play Hagrid and Emma Watson playing Hermione is becoming prettier by the sequel.
Terry Schiavo after being kept alive for 15 years has been administered euthanasia which resulted after an intense court battle between her husband and parents. No wonder the Americans have such high life expectancy. Even a terminally ill person can hold out for fifteen years!!
The concept of an ideal man has changed from a metrosexual (e.g Beckham) to an ubersexual (e.g Gere). However my ideal man is A.P.J and I am still wondering to which category he belongs.
The IIM’s have once again flummoxed test takers in 2005 proving that they are numero uno. The paper had mostly bouncers(2 marks) and a few full tosses but no sitters. People taking CAT this year, just be cautious because many of the 2005 test takers are planning to hit back.
One year has passed by without reversal of the CAS(Conditional Access System) as promised by politicians. Chennai has been the lone metro where the experiment has clicked(or has it?). Surprisingly this harsh measure has not met any resistance. This may be due to the pathbreaking success of mega serials with very high TRP’s(to be read as Tear Rating Points).
Khushboo has landed herself in the midst of a maelstrom with her comments on virginity. Now I feel may be this is the right time for her to float a political party like our Captain. We all have a special place for all our Amma’s. So who knows where she might end up.
Indian cricket has had a ……umm interesting year. Sachin has conquered another milestone. New find Dhoni has enthralled millions with his charismatic slogging. The secret of his energy is good old natural milk(not boost). Saurav has had a forgettable year. The apparent Pawar shift(or power) in BCCI has cost him his captaincy as well as a place in the team.
Laloo has atlast been ousted from
Our new V.C has stood up to instill some decency and morality in us by certain measures. The speed limit in our campus has been risen to 20Kmph after much deliberations.
Hutch has changed its color from orange to pink though retaining the pug. I’m still wondering why…………
I think this quite sums up 2005 for you. Hope we will have 2006 as exciting as 2005.
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