Emotionally Speaking

Some recent films that I have seen and recommend

1. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ZNMD): Absolutely must watch! I watched it twice in the PVR Priya cinema hall. I haven’t had so much fun watching a Hindi film in recent months. Watch it with family and friends.  Great dialogues, great acting especially by Farhan Akhtar and Hrithik. 2. Singham: Good action, tight script and [...]

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Quick rhymes on Osama’s death

These rhyming lines were written after Osama bin Laden’s death. These are just funny rhymes written mindlessly taking cue from newspaper reports. This will be useful for anyone looking for political humour, political rhymes, or poems/rhymes/slogans on Obama/Osama. The following lines also criticise Pakistan for obvious reasons. Osama is dead, Obama has said ‘Davy Jones’ [...]

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Rail Booking Site IRCTC continues to disappoint

Official Railways Reservation website irctc.co.in continues disappoint though the situation is slightly better now. I recently wrote an email to the customer care after some server issue (which is common on that site) and got a quick reply. I am sharing it with all. I sent email to care(at)irctc.co.in on 15 April—Please also mention the [...]

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DDA Housing Scheme Draw Result 2010: Draw held on 18 April 2011

The lucky draw for the DDA Housing Scheme 2010 was held at Noida today. The DDA site is almost down and you can download the pdf file of results from here if you want to know the results. The PDF file is about 2.3 MB. You can check your results in it. And congratulations if [...]

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Bournvita Quiz Contest: Bring it Back. Join the Facebook page on BQC

This piece is written by Rahul who is one of the people behind the Facebook campaign to bring back the famed TV programme. Please join the Facebook community and do your bit if you want the BQC back like more than 1 Lac people there! Let’s Bring BQC back! I believe most kids plug into the [...]

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Funny Political Cartoon On Corruption in India

This one is a very funny political cartoon/satire on corruption in India and our politicians. It shows Sonia Gandhi (no disrespect to her) holding the ‘Bhrast achar’ (corrupt pickle as a parody on the Hindi word Bhrastachar) along with other politicians. It has the taglines ‘free from honesty’ (Imandari se mukt) and ‘lalach se mukt’ [...]

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