When I opened the browser today, it simply said: Steve Jobs 1955 -2011. When he stole a mouse and a few graphical boxes from Xerox, he actually stole a dream. A dream, because Steven Paul Jobs was born a dreamer. A dream that the whizkids at Xerox thought was beyond the comprehension of the present [...]
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Rest in Peace, Aarushi.
February 15, 2011
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Dear Aarushi, This is a letter from a father of twin daughters that you will never read. Now I am not the only one to have daughters but I am obviously better suited to relate to the emotional whirlwind that I have experienced since they first arrived as mere bundles of meat and skin with [...]
Read moreProtected: Wake up, Talwars. Time to Die.
February 13, 2011
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Read more2010 in Review (Courtesy WordPress)
January 2, 2011
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I am not sure what is tougher: being a banker, being a branch head (with depleted human resources), being a middle level manager of a public sector enterprise in India, being a housewife in an Indian middle class home –as my wife would love to add, or being a human! While I was busy burying [...]
Read moreMy Journey to an Android Phone
December 13, 2010
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My first mobile phone was a Motorola C350 purchased in 2003 after furious bouts of research aided by the redoubtable Google, not to mention the brain-storming sessions with wife. It was a cute, imminently pocketable handset with a colour screen and polyphonic ringtones, carefully chosen over a deluge of bricks called Nokia having monochromatic displays [...]
Read moreDeath of Deterrence
October 23, 2010
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‘Think of how many you don’t even know about’. Bill Bradford, to the jury that sent him to the death row, holding him guilty of double rape and murder. The chilling message was not lost on the investigators of Los Angeles though who set out scouring the past of the deadly killer. The album containing [...]
Read moreState Bank of Indore: Caught in the Act
July 15, 2010
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The nation today was exposed to the information from nothing less than the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, or, as they say, straight from the horse’s mouth: “SBI is facing a situation where most of its branches and those of State Bank of Indore are competing for the same business, in the same market, under [...]
Read moreThe Clock Has Come a Full Circle
December 23, 2009
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I am no tiger in the woods. Forget tigers, I am not even a coyote in the woods! Yet, what exactly were the Internet sharks thinking when they stole my non-descript website url uspandey.com a year back? That I’d be running to them with two rucksacks of gold, one in each arm? Maybe Tiger Woods [...]
Read moreNo One Moved My cheese!
October 26, 2009
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Years ago when the doomsayers were busy swearing that every computer on this earth will pop away into fine ionic dust come Y2K, my stoic scientist friend wouldn’t even bat an eyelid. He suggested I get a webaddress instead, long live the computers. A lesser mortal that I was, I still had to unravel the [...]
Read moreCommunist at Your Dining Table
October 13, 2009
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LIC Housing Finance Ltd is a premier housing finance institution of India. As the name suggests, it’s been promoted by the redoubtable Life Insurance Corporation of India. Without launching a treatise extolling the institution’s virtues, focus today is drawn to a simple fact. LICHFL has no employee unions. No unions, you say? The management must [...]
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