This has beena bad habit for a long time. Check once a day what's been going on with my Alexa rankings. Everyone knows the ranking were not of much relevance unless you were comparing sites in the same industry or market. So when I check today, surprise, the ranking of my site has gone up form 36,000 yesterday to 16,000 today. Brillianto! Once I got rid of the doubts about an error, I opened my eyes and saw this message: Yay. Click and go in. And there is a more detailed explanation of the ranking changes. The most important ...

Everything is so communally charged in India these days. Genius observation, isn't it? 1. All those historical wrongs that have to be righted 2. All those religions conversions that have to be done to add to the flock 3. All that past ruling-class status to be regained 4. All those westernizing influences to be purged Ha, what a beautiful Saturday morning! This is the Weekly religion bulletin for all my dear communal friends. (The weekly bulletin for my Communist friends will begin shortly. Right now the audience is missing, all in Nandigram paying back someone in their own coin and all that.) All my Hindu friends have ...

I have nothing against TV ads - le's be clear. They are required, they bring in much needed moolah, and some of them are really creative, some make you think, some make you laugh. And there are some which make you want to kick the TV, pull the actors out of the TV set and then kick them in the butt again and again. Watching the IPL Season 2 on TV, I am pissed off again and again by several ads. The one which infuriates me this time is the Oh-so-cute Airtel ad featuring the celluloid couple from Guru, Vidya Balan and ...