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Workers’ Strike Breaking News Channels

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:17:43 +0000

The ‘Union For The People Who Stand Behind News Reporters Trying To Act They Just Happened To Be There’, or the UFTPWSBNRTTATJHTBT for short, called for an indefinite strike today, as talks on performance and revenue sharing broke down for the fifth consecutive week. On this first day of strike, news reports across channels sported [...]

Sreesanth unintentionally bowls well, Compensates Sri Lanka

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:05:48 +0000

In a magnanimous gesture, Indian Fast bowler S. Sreesanth today decided to pay Sri Lankan batsmen compensation amounting to 90% of his match fees for unintentionally restricting them to an economy rate of just under eight. Indian Coach Gary Kirsten declared that he stood by his emotional fast bowler’s performance. ‘It’s just not right to [...]

Congress finally warms up to BJP: sends minister as pongal Gift

admin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:19:29 +0000

In a move that is being universally regarded as a political masterstroke, the Congress today finally packed up Shashi Tharoor in a carton, and left him in front of the BJP office as a Pongal gift. The BJP office at 11, Ashoka Road was witness to some pensive moments as the party workers tried to [...]

Bollywood Rescues Climate Talks

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:57:30 +0000

The Copenhagen Climate talks received a fillip from unexpected quarters today with the announcement of Ashutosh Gowarikar as the first certified fluke of the Indian entertainment industry by the Fluke Determination Committee. The Fluke Determination Committee was constituted earlier this month to identify flukes or ‘one-hit-wonders’ amongst celebrities in an effort to ease them [...]

Arnab Goswami Allows Interviewee to Answer

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:00:33 +0000

In an unprecedented event earlier this evening, Arnab Goswami, the Editor-In-Chief for Times Now, stayed silent for a full 5 seconds during News Hour, allowing his guests to speak, and sending the TRP ratings for the channel soaring through the roof. This shocking moment occurred while the usually chirpy Arnab was interviewing an expert [...]

Dave Hill Who?

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:13:44 +0000

Have you heard of Dave Hill? If you haven’t, may I please request you to pause for a moment, reflect on your worthless existence, and give yourself a couple of hard slaps. Then, click on the link above and stare at his gallery for a while. Chances are, post that you might want to slap yourself [...]

Magic of Books

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:52:49 +0000

Magic of Books Having explored all the mm’s from 18mm to 55mm, I finally decided it was time to venture out into the unknown and buy myself a new lens; a kit lens can only get you through, like, 10 blog posts. So, off I went to the nearest Canon showroom. And promptly came back. Empty [...]

Animal Magnetism

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:55:59 +0000

There are some people in this world who have that certain indescribable spark that lightens up the entire room wherever they go. They seem to have this invisible aura around them that compels anyone and everything around to gravitate towards them. Karthik is NOT one of these people. Unfortunately, he thinks he is. So unless [...]

Talent: Stop Kidding Yourself & Start Googling

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:34:44 +0000

There comes a time in every amateur photographer’s learning curve when they come across an image that requires them to pause and ask, ‘am I ever going to be that good?’ All the nice little macro images of blossoming sunflowers and the ever-active cockroaches under the bed that they just uploaded on Flickr somehow seem [...]

Why Whine over fine Wine?

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:19:51 +0000

Emboldened by my Liquor Therapy Session, I thought I’d try and generate some more ‘intoxicating’ photographs. The unsuspecting victims were a couple of wine glasses that the missus had bought back in the early 19th century when she still cherished visions of introducing a little more sophistication into her husband’s life. So, the other day [...]