Archive for May, 2004

Orkut Communities and Michael Schumacher

Monday, May 31st, 2004

Orkut has been pretty disappointing for me. What I get mostly is junk mails from people inviting me to new communities. I don’t understand why I have to send an invite to 1500 members of the India community hoping someone of them would be from the village I hail from! Michael Schumacher community which I [...]

FIA and Montoya

Monday, May 24th, 2004

One act of stupidity on the part of a stupid Formula-1 driver that Juan Pablo Montoya is spoilt a rather productive day. Anyone who is not a Schumacher fan would give a sigh of relief watching the great one not winning yet another race but the truth is, he had a good chance of winning. [...]

Perhaps the biggest political irony in the world today!

Saturday, May 22nd, 2004

People say the fact that Sonia Gandhi, an Italian by birth could have become the Prime Minister of India shows the strength and the maturity of the great Indian democracy.
Agreed, but the biggest irony of the happenings of the past few days has to be this fact that India and Pakistan considered 2 of [...]

Citibank in India: Not for Ram, Shyam and me

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

I had earlier criticized ICICI for keeping the minimum balance at an amount I thought was pretty high (Rs. 5000) but I certainly was not ready for this. I saw a Citibank advertisement on some site about their Suvidha account which was offering zero balance bank accounts. I thought of getting some information on this [...]

Thank you, Mr. Prannoy Roy! Watching news is now l33t!

Tuesday, May 11th, 2004

NDTV India and NDTV 24×7 are a class apart when it comes to news channels. They are hip, totally cool and watchable. The reporters are people we can relate to and they don’t sensationalize news. They are not loud, but still they prove their point. They got great media partner in Indian Express. And they [...]