If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Few years back, when my dad was in a doling-out advice mood, which almost is all the time, he told us rather cynically that he did not intend to let my brother and I live under [...]
Posts for June, 2005
June 20th, 2005
Core Values
Daily Kos conducted an exercise few days back. He attempted to identify three or four core values – values that would cover any issue thrown at us. Of course, any values thus arrived at would be completely personal and exclusive to an individual and cannot be imposed on anyone else. Being labeled as a liberal [...]
Patrix | 
Personal, Philosophy | 
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June 20th, 2005
Blaming the Wrong People
I do not particularly hate the RSS but K S Sudershan’s (RSS chief) recent outburst to attribute blame against past leaders has befuddled me. First, Advani raked up the issue of Jinnah’s secularity which I feel was a moot point considering the consequences of his demands. Pakistan is a reality today and nothing in the [...]
Patrix | India, Politicking | 1 Comment »
June 20th, 2005
SPK Beauties
I was doing an ego search on Wikipedia (of course, came up with nothing). But I found something interesting in relation with my last name. It turns out that the Miss India runner-up in 1982 was Uttara Mhatre. I googled her just to confirm and to look for a picture. It turns out that she [...]
Patrix | Society Culture | 10 Comments »
June 19th, 2005
Books on the Cheap
We had seen the sign displayed last week and our eyes immediately lit up. So, on a hot Thursday afternoon, Ash and I trudged to the local library. The sign, as you might have guessed said "Book Sale". Anything cheap especially books is not something to be missed. Armed with big-sized bags, we rummaged through [...]
Patrix | Books | 6 Comments »
June 18th, 2005
Linking Park
Load and read books on your iPod. Of course, it won’t work on your budget Shuffle.
Microsoft bans ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ in China. What’s new, right? Except Microsoft exists because of those ‘forbidden speech’ terms. Global Voices fights back by providing the Chinese tips to hack MSN Spaces to display the ‘forbidden’ phrases.
Although it [...]
Patrix | Asides | 2 Comments »
June 17th, 2005
NEFA - The second most-popular blog in the world?
Nerve Endings Firing Away, the second most-visited blog in the world? Well, if one of the premier blog ranking systems, The Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem, is to be believed then hell yeah!
If you check the traffic rankings page, my little blog is right up there with the blog biggies topping even Instapundit, Gizmodo, Gawker, [...]
Patrix | Weblogs | 11 Comments »
June 17th, 2005
Death of the VHS Tape
Walmart first announced that it will be phasing out sale of VHS tapes by the end of 2005 and then recanted their announcement (or maybe it was just a rumor like one of those Mac ones). Best Buy and Circuit City have already withdrawn from the VHS market and Target plans to follow suit. [...]
Patrix | Media, Technology, World Wide Web | 2 Comments »
June 17th, 2005
Mixed Development
Ever wonder why organic cities like Bombay, Delhi, and Pune often make for fond memories and monotonously planned cityscapes like Chandigarh and Brasilia often conjure up images of dry, boring, and monotonous life? In part, America also suffers from the impersonal touch of its suburban life after the notable white flight from the inner cities [...]
Patrix | Art and Architecture | 8 Comments »
June 17th, 2005
Lenovo to make India-centric PCs
After acquiring IBM’s PC division, Lenovo plans to build customized PCs for India. This move is primarily targeted towards users who aren’t yet familiar with computers or shared computer users (in schools). This would greatly reduce the price of computers and Lenovo attempts to increasing computer accessibility in India.
I am not sure if their [...]
Patrix | Business, World Wide Web | 2 Comments »
June 16th, 2005
Buy Smart and get Social Isolation Free!
In line with our national obsession with nerds, comes this new paper by Roland Fryer and Paul Torelli [PDF link] that has an amazing conclusion on attitudinal differences among races on ‘being smart’:
“Among whites, higher grades yield higher popularity. For Blacks, higher achievement is associated with modestly higher popularity until a grade point average of [...]
Patrix | Society Culture | 2 Comments »
June 16th, 2005
Annde Chai-Garam
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Babulal Gaur has raked up the Vande Mataram issue again. He has issued instructions that the national song be sung in Cabinet meetings, government offices and school. Of course, the Opposition sees a hidden Hindutva motive although I do not see where exactly does the song seek to spread the Hindu [...]
Patrix | Politicking | 4 Comments »
June 16th, 2005
Eeeeeee-Books!
I was reading One Digital Day, a coffee table book yesterday on the impact of the digital chip on our daily lives. Although it mostly serves as one long Intel advertisement (the book was financed by Intel Corp.), it is enlightening how much a tiny piece of silicon has impacted our lives so quickly. Everyday [...]
Patrix | Books | 2 Comments »
June 16th, 2005
You like Hitler?
The Indian penchant with despotic dictators continues. Raj Thackeray, the power-hungry nephew of an equally power-obsessive Bal Thackeray (he is no saheb for me) finally reveals his fascination for Hitler. Bal Thackeray has expressed fascination for the German leader who was responsible for the worst genocide in human history.
"Leave aside his negative aspects like [...]
Patrix | Rants | 4 Comments »
June 15th, 2005
The pseudo-intellectual Desi blogosphere?
Chugs, the unofficial blog template designer recently ranted on the so-called political pundits that offer only blockquoted text and some superficial commentary. Although he makes an excellent observation on the so-called pseudo intellectuals in the blogosphere, I think he is simply missing the point. Of course, why would anyone read blogs on politics when we [...]
Patrix | Weblogs | 4 Comments »
June 15th, 2005
Why Comment?
Daily Kos, the blog with the highest number of readers in the blogosphere has a piece on my favorite topic – lack of comments on blogs (I can almost hear a collective groan). Of course, I am not going to rile up the desi bloggers (again!) who don’t have comments because they have cited their [...]
Patrix | Weblogs | Comments Off
June 14th, 2005
2 years and blogging…
Nerve Endings Firing Away completes two years today. I wish I could launch into a long winding memory of the years gone by (all two of them) but I will spare you the rhetoric since I have already done it before. I started out on the onset of the blog revolution, trying to find an [...]
Patrix | Personal, Recommended, Weblogs | 21 Comments »
June 14th, 2005
We want Siachen back first; peace later!
Peace initiatives are reciprocated with conciliatory measures, right? You may be, unless you are talking about the India-Pakistan conflict. Manmohan Singh is currently in a magnanimous mood, calling Mian Musharaff over for a cricket match, opening up the LOC for a bus service between two parts of Kashmir, letting separatist Hurriyat leaders visit PoK (they [...]
Patrix | Politicking | Comments Off
June 14th, 2005
Is BJP a ‘Hindu’ party?
Howard Dean recently ‘accused’ the Republican Party of being primarily a ‘white Christian party’. Obviously, anything that Dean says is bound to be scrutinized closely in memory of his presidential campaign screams. Looking at his statement objectively, he wasn’t far from the truth. The Republican Party is 74% White Christian. Dean was stating the obvious. [...]
Patrix | Governance, India, Politicking | 7 Comments »
June 14th, 2005
BlogHer!
I have seen plenty of women bloggers or blurkers around here so might as well offer them a tip. Technorati is sponsoring a contest that will send one female blogger to the BlogHer! Conference in Silicon Valley for a weekend with other female bloggers:
How to Enter Tell your personal story on your blog and [...]
Patrix | Weblogs | 2 Comments »
Movies I've Watched...
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2008-09-20 16:55
Delightful comedy laced with dry Brit humor. A bit sappy though.
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2008-09-02 21:00
Explores the brother-sister relationship brought together during their father's last days.
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2008-09-01 21:00
Poignant but slow narrative of an orphaned girl living with her aunt in rural Maharashtra.
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