Emotionally Speaking

The Avengers: Good film but not Great

I would give it 7 or 7.5 out of 10. It is a very good film, but nothing great. Believe me or not. I watched it yesterday night at the South Delhi PVR Priya Cinema Hall (3D; hated their scratchy defective glasses which needed changing for many people). The first half was just okay (actually [...]

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Hindi poem on Holi

This Hindi poem on Holi was written by Wasiul Haque. You can follow this link for the full poem: Holi ke rang. This was written by him as a song suitable for some Holi scene in a Hindi film. जब हो मौसम ही क़िस्मत से इतना हसीं क्या है अपना, बेगाना मेरे हम-नशीं सारे रंगों [...]

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How Jaypee sports wastes full-page ad on ticket sale for maiden F1 Grand Prix

The first ever Indian F1 Grand Prix will be held in October 2011. Jaypee Sports that aims to gain 150 Crore Rupees from ticket sales has put up a full page ad in the Times of India (and maybe also in some other newspapers). The web address given for purchase of tickets does not work; [...]

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I got a Free Air Ticket with MakeMyTRip.com. You too can win.

I had booked an air ticket on 2 July 20111 (Air India, 12 June 2011, Ranchi) in some 6000 Rupees. Since 27 June, Make my trip dot com has a deal code ‘FREEDOM15’ through which one lucky winner will get his base fare refund in a lucky draw held every fifteen minutes. I am a [...]

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‘Water for Elephants’ is a good film

A very good entertainment and a must watch—8/10 is what I will give to this film. I started with it yesterday evening and finished it today morning (long breaks included, needless to say). This film has a different theme—films these days are predictably full of ‘blood and thunder’. This is a breath of fresh air, [...]

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Search Engine Marketing

  Search Engine Marketing, simply put, is marketing through the search engine. The commonest of desires is of course to be listed at/towards the top of the Search Engine Result Page(SERP) thereby maximizing visits to the website and doing better business. Search Engine Marketing (hereafter SEM) is the whole stratagem of improving page rankings on [...]

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