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Reviewed Norton AntiVirus

A Frontline Combatant

Mar 12, 2002 09:29 PM | 3173 Views
(Updated Mar 12, 2002 09:37 PM)

It is again achougoo’s review, which prompted me to post this review. Otherwise my plan was to post reviews only in April (preferably from April 1st!) as ...read more

Reviewed Union Budget

Budget Buffoonery - II

Mar 02, 2002 10:18 AM | 5382 Views
(Updated Mar 02, 2002 11:26 AM)

[This should have ideally been a comment on sujay_marthi’s two reviews on the Budget. But the space available does not permit me to post my views as comme...read more

Reviewed Bombay Police

Revamping the police establishment

Mar 02, 2002 04:30 AM | 3365 Views
(Updated Mar 02, 2002 07:35 AM)

[This review is not on Bombay Police, but on the police establishment in general. Since there is no suitable category for that, the review is posted here. It wa...read more

Reviewed Dept. Of Education

Politics of education

Mar 01, 2002 02:38 PM | 2797 Views
(Updated Mar 01, 2002 02:43 PM)

In the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years. The above quote, part of an e-mail that I received recently, has a bearin...read more

Reviewed Best Time to File Tax Returns

Budget Buffoonery - I

Feb 27, 2002 09:16 AM | 4277 Views
(Updated Mar 02, 2002 06:22 AM)

As India’s much touted annual budget will be presented to Parliament shortly, the question in most middle-class minds will be how taxing the budget would be. Th...read more

Reviewed Lok Sabha

The litmus test of Lok Sabha's raison de'tre

Feb 23, 2002 09:18 AM | 3608 Views
(Updated Feb 23, 2002 09:27 AM)

As the Lok Sabha is one of the two Houses, which make up the Indian Parliament, without understanding the latter, the former cannot be understood in perspective...read more

Reviewed Microsoft Word 97

Great WORD but not the last Word

Feb 23, 2002 04:29 AM | 4445 Views
(Updated Feb 23, 2002 06:15 AM)

Microsoft Word 2000 is indeed the most elegant and sophisticated word processing programme that I have come across. Background Other than the fast fading out ty...read more

Reviewed Malta - General

The Malta of my memory

Feb 21, 2002 10:11 AM | 2689 Views
(Updated Feb 21, 2002 10:29 AM)

I was in Malta for less than a week in 1993 or 1994 for a Workshop. Then it did not have any diplomatic presence in India. I do not know if it has any now. So, ...read more

Reviewed Should Sport Personalities Recieve High Prize Money

Sports fixation

Feb 19, 2002 08:12 AM | 4215 Views
(Updated Feb 19, 2002 05:49 PM)

At the outset let me make it clear that I am not a sports person and I have hardly any familiarity with sports. When I was a child in a village school, most spo...read more

Reviewed General Tips on Copy Right Violations

Copy right violations

Feb 18, 2002 11:18 AM | 3939 Views
(Updated Feb 18, 2002 11:18 AM)

As the dramatis personae are real and the event is real, I am reproducing below a Note to Editor that appeared in the latest issue of the Journal of Educational...read more

Reviewed BPL ABS 50F

Not fussy

Feb 18, 2002 04:51 AM | 10068 Views
(Updated Feb 18, 2002 05:05 AM)

The BPL ABS 50F Fuzzy Logic Control Fully Automatic Washing Machine, is a washing machine without any fuss. I do not understand the usage of fuzzy for this mach...read more

Reviewed Bangalore University

Need for conducive academic ambience

Feb 17, 2002 06:28 AM | 9270 Views
(Updated Feb 17, 2002 06:44 AM)

Bangalore University is my Alma Mater. I studied from PUC to BA in one of the evening colleges affiliated to it (from 6 pm to 9 pm, often without classes!), and...read more

Reviewed Joining Local Book Clubs / Libraries

India Today Book Club

Feb 17, 2002 04:47 AM | 6219 Views
(Updated Feb 17, 2002 04:50 AM)

About three years ago, India Today, one of the leading English Weeklies of India, started another magazine, Books Today as an imprint of The India Today Group. ...read more

Reviewed Ministry Of Finance

Myopic, Mindless Planning?

Feb 16, 2002 06:53 AM | 1570 Views
(Updated Feb 16, 2002 06:56 AM)

As India is about to have another Budget, the composition of the apex planning, policymaking, advisory body, namely the Planning Commission, calls for a fresh l...read more

Reviewed Tips on Fighting for Consumer Rights

King or Kingmaker?

Feb 16, 2002 04:58 AM | 3294 Views
(Updated Feb 16, 2002 04:58 AM)

The adage customer [read consumer] is the King is wishful thinking in Indian context. Instead, there is enough justification to argue that customer [consumer] i...read more

Reviewed Rating Reviews on MouthShut

Faith and Governance

Feb 16, 2002 03:19 AM | 1797 Views
(Updated Feb 17, 2002 03:54 AM)

I am aware that this is not the right place for this review. All the same, for want of a suitable category, I am posting it here. If necessary, MS may create a ...read more

Reviewed Taking a Loan

All housing loans are usurious

Feb 14, 2002 06:35 AM | 5590 Views
(Updated Feb 14, 2002 06:50 AM)

I speak from my own experience of having taken a housing loan from the HDFC. The loan was arranged through the builder from whom I had booked a flat. As I said ...read more

Reviewed Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority

Development or destruction?

Feb 13, 2002 04:06 AM | 4654 Views
(Updated Feb 13, 2002 04:08 AM)

The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA), earlier Madras (before Madras turned Chennai following Bombay turning Mumbai!) Metropolitan Development A...read more

Reviewed New India Assurance Accidental Insurance

An affront to its name?

Feb 12, 2002 03:55 AM | 19664 Views
(Updated Feb 12, 2002 03:58 AM)

The name New India Assurance Company is an anachronism. For, not only that there is nothing new in it; more importantly, it is archaic in its functioning. What ...read more

Reviewed Maintaining a Telephone

What of the BSNL?

Feb 12, 2002 03:03 AM | 3510 Views
(Updated Feb 12, 2002 03:03 AM)

The MS seems to have left out the BSNL from its category of telephones. That its telephone system is no match to the cell phones is stating the obvious. However...read more

Reviewed Gavi

Gavi Where Nature Whispers Serenity

By: shamilps Oct 29, 2025 12:51 PM | 289 Views
(Updated 10/29/2025)

Gavi – Where Nature Whispers Serenity Some journeys stay in your heart forever — my visit to Gavi was one of them. During my vacation from Saudi Arabia, I decid...read more

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