Why Anna Hazare should not win this battle

A most comical anti-corruption opera is being staged all over the country under the leadership of Anna Hazare, who in his moral tyranny is actually beginning to look like Mahatma Gandhi. This itself is a bit of laugh: when a man wants to be someone else eventually transmigration of the soul and nose happens. It only remains for Anna to hold the Dandi March.

But the real reason why this anti-corruption campaign is looking like an over-stretched Johnny Lever joke is that the people largely constituting the movement have happily externalized corruption as if it’s an event happening outside themselves.

Dravid shows his greatness……….

Fifteen years ago he fell five runs short, but in 2011, with his team in big trouble, Rahul Dravid got his name on the Lord’s honours board.

Outside the St John’s Wood tube station this morning, touts were generously offering the day’s ticket for 500 pounds, at roughly ten times the printed price, which was still 400 pounds less than what Michael Holding had heard they were selling at. Black marketeers always do brisk business around the Lord’s Test, and tickets for all of India’s Tests have been sold out, but the reason for today’s mark-up was obvious: Sachin Tendulkar, chasing his hundredth hundred, was due to bat.

The crowds had to settle for only a cameo from the great man, but those who appreciate the true worth of Test cricket were treated to a batting masterclass from a man who has batted more than anyone else in Test cricket. Fifteen years after his debut at this ground, Rahul Dravid finally managed to erase the regret of falling short of a hundred by five runs, and became the first current Indian top-order batsman to have his name engraved on the “most talked-about honour board in world cricket.”

Will You Miss The Browser Address Bar If Google Kills It?

Say goodbye to your address bar… maybe. Google is mulling over replacing the address bar found in its Chrome Web browser with something less intrusive (if that’s the word to use). In one scenario, the address bar would only become visible when, say, the mouse pointer is hovered over a certain area of the screen. At all other times the address bar would vanish from the interface.

Will the BOP (Bottom of the Pyramid) model work in India????

Shree Ganeshaya Dhimahi

Perceptions…….

According to Wikipedia, perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information. The word “perception” comes from the Latin words perceptio, percipio, and means “receiving, collecting, action of taking possession, apprehension with the mind or senses.”
What one perceives is a result of interplays between past experiences, including one’s culture, and the interpretation of the perceived. If the percept does not have support in any of these perceptual bases it is unlikely to rise above perceptual threshold.

Stress busters!

Friends, stress does play a major role in our lives … be it young or old, everybody is adversely impacted by it.
I have keenly observed and found that everybody has his/her own unique way of busting stress.
Once my good friend told me that I was taking too much stress and needed a vent, so develop a hobby…
I was foxed by this suggestion… did that mean I did not have a hobby?

Thought for the day

” Whether or not we realize it, each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this, would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you?”
— Josh Hinds