Caught a Sunday matinee show of Dil Kabaddi. And enjoyed it throughly. It’s a modern day story of DINK couples (Double-Income-No-Kids). Especially related to the games people play in marriage (yes, the spouses.. with each other..), infidelity in modern day marriages, and especially the sexual interplay in marriages. A kind of adult topic, its been [...]
Archive for December 21, 2008
Dil Kabaddi – Highly Recommended for Married Couples
Posted: December 21, 2008 in bollywood, Dil Kabaddi, Irfan Khan, Konkona Sen, Movie Review, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali KhanTags: bollywood, Dil Kabaddi, Movie review
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Leaders who started young, and their journeys
Posted: December 21, 2008 in cricket, india, Leadership, ManagementTags: Leadership
The splendid victory of South Africa against Australia set my mind thinking about their leader, Graeme Smith, and how he led from the front. And about his leadership career, as South Africa’s cricket captain. When he took over as SA captain, he was young and almost brash. There were other seniors who were still in [...]
Living in Denial
Posted: December 21, 2008 in Economy, india, Jim Collins, Living in Denial, Recession, Stockdale ParadoxTags: Jim Collins, Living in Denial, Recession, Stockdale Paradox
Okay, so the economic crisis gave way to the Mumbai terror attack, in as far as the centre stage of news is concerned. But the challenges of the current times have not gone away. Raw material values skidding to reduce credit limits of companies and making value-added production becoming unviable. Reduction of US and global [...]
Who is the Commander-in-Chief? Do we have one?
Posted: December 21, 2008 in A K Anthony, bangladesh, chief of integrated defense staff, commander in chief, George Fernandes, india, Indira Gandhi, Leadership, military, Pranab Mukherjee, Pratibha Patil, president, strategy, warTags: chief of defense staff, commander-in-chief, india at war
There has been a lot of talk, rumors if you will, about how India is ready to take battle into the boundaries of Pakistan. How, if necessary, we are ready to wage war also. As long as it is rhetoric, it is fine. But could it actually move from talk to action? Should Pakistan call [...]
The citizen / voter / shareholder is a sucker.. shit happens!!
Posted: December 21, 2008 in india, life, politics, UncategorizedTags: Citizen suckers, india
Come across some of the most shocking instances in recent days, that convinces me that we, the ordinary citizens, are helpless fools, and much as we agonize over things, shit happens!! Some stark examples: Vilasrao Deshmukh, after resigning as CM, does not feel it necesary to attend the Legislature. And he justifies it in public [...]
