Last week we celebrated Onam in our office adhering to the strict tradition of having women stand around a grand floral arrangement and pose for pictures. While we men stood further around sticking to the older tradition of watching the women. Seriously, Onam seems to have to no place for the guys. I have never seen an Onam celebration photo… Read more →
This week Apple Inc unveiled two new models of mobile phones, something which its aficionados had been waiting for since the day the previous model was launched. That is the beauty of any cutting-edge technology, state-of-the art Apple product: It promptly becomes obsolete the moment it is available in the market. Also, Apple has also managed to create a unique… Read more →
As portentous war clouds loom over the Arab belt, as minatory missiles take position across the Mediterranean, as global markets tumble on febrile fears over petroleum supply and as a sweaty world sits at the precipice of yet another potential calamity, in the United States of America many sensitive and sensible folks must be racked by the existential thought, where… Read more →
Mumbai: Raghuram Rajan, who took over as the new Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday, is expected to shake up the banking system with a series of strong measures in a bid to show that someone is doing something about it. Otherwise the rupee, and the economy by extension, will continue to perform the way it has… Read more →
Recently there was a ‘Festival of Madurai Cuisine’ at a swanky hotel here in Chennai, and as a Madurai person myself my first reaction was one of immense happiness, primarily over the fact that someone had managed to put Madurai and cuisine in the same sentence. Let us face it, food is not the first item that readily comes to… Read more →
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