Uninor, a new GSM operator launched yesterday in India. Their ads were all over the place - buses, near airport, etc. More than their ads, what attracted me the most was their attractive plans.
Their tariff plans were “Local calls at 0.29p/min and National calls at 0.49p/min“. That means, you can talk continuously for 5.7 hours [...]

Yesterday while I was going to work in a bus, saw a fight between an auto driver and two guys on a bike near the signal. The biker had hit the auto and the auto driver was asking him to stop at the side of the road. But the guys on bike were trying to [...]

If you had done atleast a single google search or visited one site with google’s adsense in the recent past, you would seen the advertisements for the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate - LK Advani. He has his own site which has the latest news about the various rallies by the party and the various accusations [...]

A few days back I went to the 32nd Chennai book fair held at St George’s Anglo-Indian School, Poonamallee High Road. It is an annual event held during the first few weeks of January. This year it is being held from 8th Jan to 18th by BAPASI.
I went and got a few books and have [...]

2008 has been a great year for India. Though filled with lots of terrorist attacks, the people came up really well after the attacks. Here is a small list of the events which happened in 2008:

28 April, India sets a world record for sending 10 satellites to orbit in a single launch
13 May, Bomb blasts [...]

Yesterday’s newspaper had two interesting news items about Anna University. One was about a huge number of scholars getting PhDs from Anna University. And the other was about the sudden surge in the activity of papers published by Anna University.
First, about the “377 PhDs being awarded“. For those who are lazy to read the article, [...]

Me and two of my friends had gone to Ahmedabad for a marriage last week and we traveled by train. The trip was great and we got to see a lot of things around in India.
I have blogged about the entire trip and what we all did for the 5 days over here. Some of [...]

For almost for the past 2 months, there was an ad on TV about a mobile store called Hash 10. It was criticizing another mobile shop - stating that their technicians are the best and they know a lot about mobiles unlike the other shop (which sells groceries and crackers). 
During the Diwali weekend, we (Pratheema, [...]

Car and bike drivers in India have this crazy habit of using a different beam for their head lamp. They don’t care whether the person driving in opposite direction is blinded by the beam or doesn’t see the oncoming traffic. This is just my observation of the percentage of people who use high beam, low [...]

Chennai OpenCoffee Club - the first of its kind in India started by Vaidhy and Siddhi is now one year old. The club members meet on the first sunday of every month at the Amethyst coffee shop, Chennai. And August’s meet is on the 3rd.
OpenCoffee Club is an event happening all over the world, which [...]