The mangalore attacks are disturbing and shameful. But watching the media coverage disturbs me even more. Not because of the coverage, but because what it implies. I cannot understand why the media needs to make this is a men vs women issue. That men are insecure, and women poewr is increasing and such opinions. Let’s [...]
Entries from January 2009
On the media
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
What’s in a name?
January 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Privacy for one.. Read this and it scares me. This is one of the times I wish that my parents had given me a far more common name! EDIT: Fixed link
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My whole anti slumdog stance
January 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments · rants, thoughts
Maybe I am prejudiced. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe I am just plain stupid. I just don’t get the hype behind the movie. I have not seen it yet, its yet to be released (or has just been released) in India. My thoughts come from reading other reviews. The New York Times reviews Slumdog Millionaire [...]
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IRC fun
January 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
So at work, we use IRC for communicating. Sometimes there are interesting conversations that take place due to nick collisions. Most of the IRC clients have an autocomplete feature, and most of them beep/highlight when your nick is mentioned. And that generally calls for an interesting conversations whenever someone is looking for me and just [...]
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