Typically bench period lasts upto 3 months, giving corporates the necessary time to locate projects with suitable requirements across their landscape and deploy you. Sometimes it is immediate – unfortunately, while at other times it is longer than a Himesh Reshammiya song. Read more »

For the antique collector – it’s catch 22. Do I get all of these and hope to make a fortune someday by claiming to have “antiques”, or do I just acknowledge the fact that this is all junk in this ever changing world? Read more »

Amidst all this busy day if someone chooses auto-rickshaw to reach their destination, they must ensure to have enough patience to win unreasonable arguments with Autowalas on the extra money they try to rob off the customer. Read more »

People more keen on fortune must have seen those “Nadi” fortune tellers in Vaideeshwaran Koil. But here’s something new that I stumbled upon, Rumpology. Apparently a science used read lines on butt cheeks to reveal past and future of people. Read more »

How often do you see someone fight for minimum standard of living for the slum dewellers, a hygienic environment to survive, drinkable water, food, housing, shelter etc for those who below poverty line ? Read more »

My friends are very afraid of me as I carry something in my pocket all the time. Read more »

They say “accidents do happen” and when you are in front of a mindboggling audience with millions turning to Washington and may be many more millions glued to the TV sets watching history being made, there is bound to be tension and a few words exchanged. Read more »

At heart, I am still a Pakka Hyderabadi. I might have some Brit or American jargons running through me, my kids might speak in twisted tongues, my wife might advise me to use the likes of Salvatore Ferragamo or CK One but my heart pumps for Hyderabad. Read more »

Ever imagined how a contemporary movie would look when yester year heroes are acted in them or making a spoof of contemporary movie with such actors? Read more »

Who knew that the first couple of weeks of 2009 will be that of the Devs and of The Devil ? Interestingly, the first two weeks in January saw a couple of “Devs” coming to limelight. Read more »

All across the blogosphere, you will find stories about how media should follow code of ethics before reporting; verify the facts before they publish, how they should dress up before presentation blah blah. Read more »

As globalization spread its effect on India, we became more a westerner than an Indian. Our hair style, fashion, body – almost every part of ours started seeing the change. The digital age gave birth to a clean shaven, well shaped and well dressed Indian. Read more »

Hyderabad is a happening City. After it turned BPO hub, it has become even more active. You find traffic all through the night and especially the cabs which are shuttling for the BPO employees. Read more »

Let me do a disclaimer before I try to tickle your bones. All the explanations (or rather definitions) down below are purely fictitious and not intended to hurt or derogate anybody or anyplace. It’s just my attempt to make it sound funny. Read more »

How often does some news make you smile ? How often do you sit back and think – if they can do it, so can we – and of course the vice-versa too. Here are two such news that caught my attention today Read more »