Tata, Jaguar and Orient Express

Mumbai, Dec 21 In the event of winning the bid for Ford’s marque brands Jaguar and Land Rover, Tata Motors plans to bring them as completely knocked-down (CKD) units to India and re-export them, according to sources. “The plan is to bring the two brands as CKD kits and assemble them here for further export [...]

Onyx of Bombay

Last time I met Onyx was in May. 
During my first trip to India in 21 years. 
That was also the first time I met him.
Since I was quite jet-lagged I don’t quite recall our initial greetings, but I think I gave him a pat, he wagged his tail, and that was it. The lack of exuberance was [...]

18!?! Anything lower would be illegal

That’s a tag line for one of my products (18 refers to cents).
As the industry has gone digital the demand for printing has gone down since many never ever order a print because all the photos they have are there for anybody to see on Flickr or SmugMug, and they can be put on blogs, [...]

Hey, How’re you doin’

Just saying hello.
No agenda.
Why must it always be reason based, why can’t we just chill and chat? Otherwise it’s too business like and we’re aren’t business associates or colleagues so the whole point is to shoot breeze.
So what’s happening? Is work good? And what’s going on at home?
I read this great line that goes something [...]

Things we do for love

In a strange city, a stranger once came to live.
He knew no one, except people he worked with, and he tried knowing no one new either -trying to shed the baggage of past acquaintances – and being who he was trying to change that – himself – in the solitude of strangeness all around.
What kept [...]

Hindu Irony or Hypocrisy

In a land of paradoxes none are more paradoxical than Hindus and Hindu politics.
Narendra Modi is fighting an election in Gujarat as a BJP candidate and as a Hindu stalwart, a fighter for Hindu interests.
A bit farther down in Punjab the same party BJP is a coalition partner in a government that has silently allowed [...]

Suicide?

Yes, murdering oneself.
But it has to be cool as what’s the point of (selecting) beaten to death ways of self extinction?
So hanging is out – first it’s the rope burn then being discovered with your tongue hanging our and looking grotesque – and then the matter of bodily fluids dribbling down the legs – yuck [...]

Silence

….. a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing …….
too much noise, from outside and in the head, cacophony that deafens the soul or makes the spirit cry for peace and quiet and Silence – still silence in which life lives and breathes
Wasn’t that nice. You, me linked without words [...]

Bellingham Speedy & Boomers

Bellingham is quite well known for reasons unknown – unless you call a “good place for seniors to live” and a rather unremarkable college when compared to remarkable colleges, a quaint district called Fairhaven with stupidly high real estate prices as reasonable reasons for being well known. Though part of the city is on a [...]

I hate censorship

Madhuri butchered her natural good looks with the new hairdo – straight hair and that color isn’t her, but this isn’t about that – it’s about censorship in India.
Mayawati bans the movie because she doesn’t like a line in one of the songs? What is she? Fuckin’ Hilter?
India’s a democracy that guarantees free speech, or [...]