Rachna says

I was thinking that now that Gautam has begun school, I’d have much more time on my hands. Surprisingly, that is not so! I have to wake up latest by 6 everyday. I have 3 tiffins to pack for my three boys ;). Gurdev can eat in his office canteen…

Nandan Nilekani – the co-founder of one of the biggest Indian IT companies Infosys has resigned from the company to take up a rank of a cabinet minister in the government. He is heading the UIC (Unique Identification Card) scheme. This is meant to provide a National foolproof biometric Identity…

Since the controversy of ill treatment of Indian students in Australia has broken out, one argument which has been heard in many forums is how India as a country is very racist to its own people and the two ugliest dimensions of it manifest as the caste system and stereotyping…

Today is the 100th Anniversary of Father’s Day and though I feel that most of these days are just commercial gimmicks meant to boost the sales of the greeting card companies, I like this one. I think fathers are very special. They are not as overt in showing their love…

The media circus continues about the failure of the Indian cricket team in T20 WC. Get on with it and move to other things. This need to unnecessarily prolong such trivial things is a feature of late in the Indian media. People succeed and fail, teams succeed and fail. It…

He has started having a very pronounced and funny pout these days.As soon he steps out of the school ( I go to pick him up), he says school was good even before I can ask him :).His mood swings are maddening and for no reason he starts howling or…

Luckily for us, we stayed up only till midnight to watch the England vs. India game of the T20 WC. With England scoring just 153, we went to sleep thinking that India will do it comfortably. At least, our sleep was not ruined :). In the morning, shock of shocks…

I read a report that thousands of people are being fired in IT companies, well not officially fired, but “made” to resign in the last few months in India. The most horrifying part is that most of the people fired are actually good performances, get good reviews and rarer still…

The match against South Africa was a washout for Scotland with South Africa scoring a mighty 211 and Scotland collapsing to a double-digit total. With that Scotland bows out of the World Cup. Since they are not a regular cricket playing side, that was expected and understandable. But, have a…

The most amazing thing about most Indian names ( the Hindu ones especially) is that they generally do have a meaning to them. And, many people find that fascinating. Most names are derived from Sanskrit or pure Hindi and these days the trend is keeping names which are so weird…