General Interest

‘Bandhs are an Indian disease’

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:31:00 +0000

Nita protests against bandhs:
The bandh culture is a peculiar hodgepodge of democracy and communism. Communist regimes do not allow such nonsense, but a democracy allows freedom, a freedom misused by the communists to impose on the common people. It is ridiculous that bandhs are actually used to tom-tom a “people’s cause” completely disregarding the fact [...]

Going away Picklers get-together

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:09:00 +0000

In about 3 weeks time I’ll be going away for a long trip. The trip will be between 4-6 weeks and I’ll explain more later what I plan to do. It’s a bit crazy but let’s see if it works out. And no, I’m not going to the US to work on the Obama campaign, [...]

DNC Day 4: Strangers in a Strange Land

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:06:00 +0000

Our whole time here, while we’ve been blogging, nobody has really asked Ravi or I what we do. I know what I am suggesting is silly. Why should they? We are Sepia Mutiny. We blog. A lot of them read the blog. What else is there other than that we are bloggers here to report?

DNC Day 4: What are you For/Against

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:31:00 +0000

DNC Day 4: How's business going?

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:05:00 +0000

Smile please madam

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:15:00 +0000

Alpha has a hilarious post about the antics that their wedding photographer conned them into doing!
He wanted to do real time computer simulation and dazzle the crowd. It definitely was a crowd puller as we turned around and performed a fake puja to the screen behind us; he morphed the screen with an image of [...]

Sisterhood of the Ill-Fitting Bras

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:13:00 +0000

Amrita remembers what Indian bras were like in the dark days of the Licence Raj.
Oh, they looked like bras, and they’re called bras, but in texture they resembled the very finest the khadi industry had to offer and they fit about as well as if I’d hung lampshades about my bosom. They had names like [...]

Open Source Alternatives

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:00:00 +0000

We had a discussion on FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) during one of the soft skills sessions in our organization. It was a very informative session on Open Source and it’s advantages in the corporate environment etc.

DNC Day 3: The Superdelegate and Money Man

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:25:00 +0000

After the Asian American caucus meeting on Wednesday morning I had the chance to speak with Democratic superdelegate-at-large Kamil Hasan (appointed by Howard Dean). Hasan is an entrepreneur from the Bay Area and a partner at HiTek Ventures.

Olympic Gold

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:23:00 +0000

And the medal goes to Anthony Lane for his mammoth and brilliant diary of the Olympic fortnight in the New Yorker (week 1 and week 2). Over 10 pages (or 19, in case it reaches you as a Word document), Lane records how he watched everything from athletics to shot put, does some joyous China-bashing [...]