Taxes and singledom

That was the theme for class today, and it was so much fun, I decided to blog it!
We started with the tax rate slabs in place as of date. These are progressive slabs, which means as much of your income as falls within a particular slab is taxed at the rate applicable to that slab.
For [...]

Censorship

There was the blog ban. Then there was the Orkut ban. Now, it’s apparently Youtube.
And the parallels between what’s in the news and what’s in my life continue.
Look at the last post. It was first posted on TomaytoTomahto. Now read the comments thread there. It’s rather two-dimensional; a conversation of sorts. Now, go to Nita’s [...]

WTF

is this?
Is this the kind of advice that’s getting doled out, nowadays?! This woman is essentially saying that if you want to travel in India, don’t do anything. Stay in your hotel room, and you might, just might, escape molestation. Actually, this is the kind of advice that is getting doled out. And was. And [...]

Guru

No, this isn’t a review, though I did see the movie yesterday.
This is a general rant about falling standards. The Hindu review of Guru (I can’t find it online, you’re lucky not to read it!), to be exact. I remember a time when the Hindu didn’t carry review in the main paper. Now they do. [...]

Aha!

Someone suggested yesterday that the reason I enjoy myself so much at work is a love for speaking in public.
So what does this say about me? Or about what I should be doing?!

Scared, or scary?

India is supposed to be a country of sexually repressed people, isn’t it? And the US of A is supposed to be sexually liberated. The swingin sixties and all the rest of it. But just look how scared Liberty University* seems to be of sexuality and any expression thereof.
Even more scary (or is it funny [...]

Bad, bad, bad!

Do you find yourself, sometimes, reacting in just the way you don’t want to? Saying all the right things, of course, but thinking all the wrong ones?
Like looking at a newspaper article about visas to Pakistan and wondering whether the Visa God would help these people: after all, he’s Indian (and Hindu?)?! Or about the [...]