Marriages, though not all of them, are bad.

+ being short for the funtion of marriage, i.e. M(x,y)

1 Depressed person x + 1 Happy person y = 1 less Depressed x' + 1 less Happy person y'.  What a leveller!
(I'm ruling out the possibility of 2 depressed persons marrying. They simply should spare the kids the trauma. I'll leave you to decide the ( Read more... )

He could be a literary genius or Javed Akhtar's baap or (for diversity's sake) he might even be a whizkid flooring his bosses with his spotless presentations. But the male stable rarely takes credit for letters in love, letters "of" love being a much more evil form of feminine conspiracy.

Watch those sleek memos and carefully crafted professional ( Read more... )

...is the question the egg is asking this season. In a serious blow to the much-touted Brit wit, the British Egg Information Serives (ahh, thank God for small mercies) is now attempting to eliminate guesswork from a big issue - people cant even boil an egg.

In an abashed display of self-effacing catharsis, Britons admit that millions of them ( Read more... )

... dont seem to love each other's company. If innovative skills were any indication, Microsoft's pulse has long gone silent. As Guy Kawasaki would put it, if it were daisy wheel printer company, it would think innovation means adding Helvetica in 24 points.

Or if Microsoft were just Microsoft, it would set out to follow someone else's curve.

May ( Read more... )

You heartless bitches, take this! Rock on!

My picks -

1. Does the sight of an incredibly handsome man turn you off, because too many of them have room-temperature IQ's, and obnoxious or non-existent personalities?

Inflated sigh. That's half the reason why I have been banished to singlehood in heaven. I think i should seriously amend that stereotype ( Read more... )

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I dont find it shameful to admit that terrorism used to be something so far removed from my life as Iraq. Infact, when an Indian friend in Singapore expressed shock and sympathy for the victims of 9/11, it angered me. She had never felt a thing for the hundreds who die in the Kashmir valley every year. Why was she being so tearful abt Uncle Sam's ( Read more... )

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By contemporary inspirational standards, this ranks UP THERE! Ok, its friggin hard to pull off on my own, without a partner for support and exchange... but I'm gonna give it a shot. A short shot.

I'm not gonna shop for a month.
No new clothes.
No movies. Rented or otherwise.
No eating out.
For the time being, i shall have to remain content with la ( Read more... )

Since I've been allowing myself to indulge in politics these days, quite by serendipity, I stumbled upon this wonderfully lucid piece of gyan. Why does India have such terrible politicians?

Like academics and pickpockets, politicians too have rules which they can break only at great risk.

The Rules of the Empty Game

Rule No 1 is that only winning ( Read more... )