BOXING DAY

Dec 26th, every year, is an important day for cricket buffs in that the Melbourne Cricket Ground would be host to a test match between Australia and some other team. Over the years this has come to be known as the Boxing Day test. With the advent of the Indian Premier League and the T20 [...]

RANDOM

Sachin Tendulkar played yet another great innings at his favourite hunting ground, Chepauk, thereby erasing every iota of bad memories of the 1999 test against Pakistan at the very venue. Cynics, who felt he was not a finisher, were left searching for answers. Critics, who felt he never scored centuries while finishing, were stumped. The [...]

WILL THE IRON HAND SEE THE LIGHT OF THE DAY?

It was just like a routine day in my life. After reaching home from office, I had dinner, watched the highlights of the India-England match, watched the ICL Pakistan vs World XI match and retired to bed at around 9:30 to read a book and then sleep. I read for an hour but I could [...]

‘KASHTAM’ER SERVICE

‘Kashtam’ in Tamil means Hard. Tough. Difficult. Bugging. Frustration. That is what customer service experiences turn out to be. Companies advertise a lot claiming themselves to be customer-friendly but few actually win the satisfaction of the customer. Even big companies with highly popular brands sometimes fail in customer service.
In the past I have had many [...]

BACK

I am back after a partly self-imposed, partly circumstantial sabbatical. The reason is that work in office kept me away from indulging in any kind of activity that comes close to being called social networking or blogging.  I am not going to make cliched promises that I will continue to be more frequent in future [...]

LOUD WORDS, ZERO ACTION

Come bomb blasts and the next moment news channels are abuzz with an opposition party (read BJP) leader taking potshots at the ruling party for being soft on terror. Begging to disagree with him is a ruling party spokesperson (read Abhishek Manu Singhvi) trying to convince the news anchor about the party’s policy (or the [...]

AN ORDINARY LIFE

On the way back from office, one day, I happened to indulge in a conversation with my driver about his personal life. After listening to his story I was deeply moved and realised that everyone’s life is full of ups and downs, irrespective of whether he is the chairman of a company or the guy [...]

BACHNA AE GANESHA

WTF

I SEE PINK

It is the turn of Wipro to hand over pink slips to about a 1000 of its employees

A New Lease of Life

That was what my blog wanted for a long time given the abysmal visitor count and a dipping popularity (not that this blog was popular at some point of time). That in turn formed the basis for the switch to WordPress from Blogger. There reason for making this switch was that I had developed a [...]