Mobile and immobile :-(

Some wisecrack remarked 'the mobile fone is the only thing - the smaller the size, the bigger the man's ego!' Snides apart, I accept, buying a mobile is only a ...read more

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Not finished yet

Alexei was at the Shermetyevo Airport at Moscow to receive me. A short, effusive guy with 32 golden teeth (a result of sucking on sugar cubes when drinking his ...read more

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The Army Canteen!

The hype about MTR (or Mavelli Tiffin Room) forced me to make a beeline to their restaurant on 4th April 2002. MTR, for those of you who are not aware is a sout...read more

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Lot of minuses though!

The colorplus ad at a traffic intersection caught my eye. Like millions of other fellow-gullible Indians, I fell for it. The showroom I went to was swanky and p...read more

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A land where time stands still......

I landed in Houari Boudamine Intl Airport, Algiers on a cold morning in January. The airport was teeming with algerian militia, armed to the teeth with Ak47s an...read more

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The Pisa and Taj Mahal

Pisa and the Taj With all the excitement of a school kid on his first excursion, I decided to check out the Leaning Tower of Pisa for myself. Does it really des...read more

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Reviewing reviews

Any review should have the pros and cons. Instead of just harping on one point (the-guy-next-door's-white-dog-is-rude kinda stuff), a balance of views would mak...read more

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Ageing, hmmmmm but Maharajah indeed!

Let's face it, we keep cribbing about the lousy and shabby treatment from PSUs endlessly, but what do the competitors offer? Try flying Syrian Arab Airlines, Ai...read more

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Rip Van Winkle's den!

For long it has been a hallowed portal from where Nehru and Sardar Patel made historic speeches and decisions that are spoken in hushed tones even in the corrid...read more

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De la creme!

The saying goes that when Ambani Sr worked as a gas station attendant many years ago in the mid-east, he saw a big refinery for the first time in his life and d...read more

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The real JOSH!!

Grab it! The aluminium engine is a real performer when it comes to mileage. It gives me (you are not gonna believe this) 13+ in city; spares are the cheapest wh...read more

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New wine in old bottle

This is a good marketing ploy; if your grandma or ma did not give you a fill of horlicks when you were convalescing after that nasty fever 30 years back, they w...read more

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Smooth n easy

Pears is a predominantly glycerine (the stuff tear jerkers are made of!) based soap and doesnt have too many chemicals and conditioners and fixers or you-name-i...read more

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Boys n toys

Mileage? you must be jokin! remember enfield's bottomline in all it's ads a few years back? ''let the boys have the toys'' well, but they insist on giving you a...read more

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Licensed to kill!

All mosquito repellants have one thing in common: A chemical called allethrin which is supposed to make our fellow citizens (mosquitos) uncomfortable; this is d...read more

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Diamonds forever!

Apart from diamonds belgium is also preferred becoz: it is almost the centre of europe; take a map, a compass and check it out for yourself secondly, the real e...read more

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Rude and Inefficient

Want to subscribe to the worst csp in the country? skycell is the place! for instance, try their customer service hotline number 8222939 - it lives to its name(...read more

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Plain & stiff

If you wanna know what Vajpayee had for breakfast or where kofi annan and yasser arafat are headed today, this is the paper for you; if you want to know why, fo...read more

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Lopsided

There is nothing much the ministry of power can do: hang on! lemme tell you why: (1) individual states decide on various heavy subsidies (freebies!!!) for vario...read more

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Rugged and macho

If you are the outdoor type and want a rugged machine, this is it! I work in the oil and gas industry world wide and have used various brands like noikia, ericc...read more

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