Archive for January, 2008

Corruption, the cheaper option.

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
One solution is to use points made by Russian leaders themselves. Guess who said this: “Russia is a country of legal nihilism at the level…that no European country can boast of…Corruption in the official structures has a huge scale”. That sounds as though it came from some opposition politician such as Garry Kasparov—the sort of marginal (or marginalised) figure that Russians often say gains far too much western attention. But the speaker was Dmitri Medvedev (pictured above), successor-designate to Vladimir Putin.

Or, why these pontificating types will never be successful.

Monthly avataram lecture,

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Currency carry trade, Japan, Yen, US Federal Reserve, interest rate differential, rupee, dollar, meaningless, India, Capital account convertibility, Tarpore committee etc.

English at the workplace

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

….is essential when one has recruited non-brahmin types who can’t speak English and one also feels embarrassed about one’s accent in the native language.

Have you noticed,

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

None of the regular type bloggers who generally assume they have to express an opinion on most things, have done so on Andrew Symmonds being called a monkey. I am thinking, this padam. Snowflakes etc.

Because white masters haven’t gotten over their guilt, brown coolies who either write code or column for a living, cannot. Racism is racism. Monkey is monkey. Democracy. Freedom of speech. Latin.

I have now decided, the root of all evil is the Internet. Thankfully someone snapped a cable near Africa. How poignant.

Sadness overflows

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

This boy Amit proves a point. About what happens when you actually assume one bit of sense over your own dumb self.

Much like what the Maanga has become, but then.

How to get even

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Get Symmonds and Ponting to play for the Madras team in IPL. Let the Tamil boys sledge the North Indians out of the ground. The monkey boy will stand as body guard of course. Vegetarian illaya.

Times Now is the most watched English news channel

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Or something like that.

Pulp Friction

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

M.V.Sridhar to Symonds: There’s a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. I never really questioned what it meant. But just this morning while I was taking the biggest crap, I had enough time to think about it.

It could mean you’re the evil man. And I’m the righteous man. And Mr. Hansen here, he’s the sheperd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be, you’re the righteous man and I’m the sheperd and it’s ponting and all homosexual aussies who are evil and selfish. I’d like that. But that shit ain’t the truth. The truth is you’re the weak. And I’m the tyranny of evil men. But I’m trying. I’m trying real hard to be a sheperd.

Scene by scene

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

We maintain Tamil modesty by importing Marathi women and stripping them — Fair & Lovely, in case you did not know, is a Tamil funded conspiracy that makes Tamil women ugly and therefore modest. The Dravidian parties understand this — after all, both are headed by people who either scripted or stripped. What is the PMK’s problem? They even seem to have the TVs, as this reply indicates,

Deputy Speaker V.P. Duraisamy had the final say. He told the PMK legislator: “You seem to have seen all these programmes scene by scene.” [1]

Anyway, I am collecting the free color TV from my ration shop on Jan 10.

[1] — I know, translation isn’t half as funny. I really pity those who aren’t Tamils. I wonder what life without nakkal will be.

Roger, Rafa and Novak

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Roger: Love his game. His insistence on tradition to secure his own greatness is as irritating as his aristocratic snobbish behaviour. Typical Swiss trash.

Rafa: Hate his game. But seems the more humble and friendly compared to the other two.

Novak: This Hewitt clone manages to live up to Hewittian expectations of assolishness. Boring game. Too full of himself and most importantly the biggest attention whore in tennis now.

Gasquet: Tennis God.