Wish You Happy Holi / Dol

November 9th, 2007 I wish you all a Happy Diwali and Kalipuja and many many happy returns of the same. Everywhere is filled with sounds of firecrackers.

August 15th, 2007 I wish all Indians, in India and abroad, a happy Independence day on its 60th anniversary. I hope it heralds the beginning of ongoing prosperity and happiness for the whole country.

October 18th, 2007 Wish all Indian's and others a Happy Durga Puja / Dussera and many happy returns of the same. Our offices will be minimally operating till Sunday on account of Puja Holidays.

January 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - India's largest bank, the State Bank of India (SBI), has decided to retain its contract with scam-tainted information technology (IT) firm Satyam Computer Services for maintaining its Internet banking services, a top bank official said here Thursday. 'We are not at all thinking of changing Satyam as our vendor for Internet banking services.

October 20th, 2006 Diwali is the festival of lights, when forces of good defeats the darkness or evil. Tomorrow is Diwali / KaliPuja in India.

November 5th, 2008 "The American people have spoken and they spoke clearly." - Senator John McCain USA has once again heralded the triumph of democracy. Who would have thought that an African-American, who was muslim at birth can be the President of the most powerful country in the world? Nobody would have imagined 12 months back.

May 16th, 2007 I got a ping from Google India's R&D department. They are looking for leadership role and were apparently quite impressed with my online resume; which hasn't been updated for about 5 years or more.

July 30th, 2007 It has been several months that I fully migrated to Linux. The whole company has moved 100% to Linux, all servers, desktop ...

February 5th, 2007 India is the ideal place to conduct human trial for the effectiveness of DCA ( dichloroacetate ) as anti-cancer drug. The government regulations for human trial aren't as stringest as USA, there are funds available for such studies and frankly you don't need much.

July 21st, 2006 I was recently asked why do we keep donating our smartest people to other countries? It reminded me of a story of Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism. Once he was passing by a village full of very good and very bright people.

January 18th, 2007 I finally took the plunge and upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0.7, the latest sparkling version of WordPress (till 2.1 comes out later this month). I am happy to say that the upgrade was uneventful for once and things looked fine after sanity checks.

March 21st, 2008 I received a non-typical email spam, a well written (spams are usually filled with bad spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, especially those from Dakar, Senegal for example) email from Maria Wyatt (most likely forged) claiming to be Nadezhda from Saint-Petersburg in Russia. Couple of photos were also included.

December 18th, 2007 That's about the best you can say about the 8 Mbps plans from Airtel. The starter Combo 1299 plan provides 8 mbps @ only Rs.

July 24th, 2007 I came across a very interesting ad from Toto introducing Washlets to the US market. It employs nudity, specifically smiling asses to drive home its point - Washlet makes your ass happy.

December 14th, 2007 I just came back from a semi-traditional Indian wedding. It was an interesting experience.