May 2008
5 posts
Puppets.
West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi (grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) decided to observe voluntary power cut for two hours every day and said that Raj Bhavan, his official residence, need not be an exception to the load shedding that the city has faced over the last two months.
This infuriated the Minister for Power and his party leaders, who took this move to be an insult to the Government and...
Long Live Life.
“She went through a lot of shit, of course, and then she started a big painting in her house that said Viva La Vida. I just loved the boldness of it.”
- Chris Martin (on the latest Coldplay album)
Frido Kahlo. Polio at the age of six. An accident at 18 that left her with a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, a crushed and...
Process.
1. I got my first stipend after 2.5 months. Each time we went to the HR guys, they conveniently blamed it on the Process and then finally, when the request moved from HR to Finance, they delayed it for some more time in the name of Process. Worse, I got my access card after a month and all it needed was an online request that had to be raised by the HR. A minute’s job, the simplicity of...
This is not Disneyland or Hollywood.
“I have read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don’t fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everyone else.”
- Lance Armstrong, It’s not about the bike