Category Archives: Rant

Airtel Broadband: Windows slaves?!

By Raghunath | Published: January 16, 2010

SO there I was, hating my dataone connection for its recent spate of bad service and low bandwidth and thinking of changing the connection. The only real alternative here in India (apart from local dsl providers – cut cable no internets!) is Airtel broadband. Now I wasn’t looking for a Rs. 300 internet connection to [...]

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Travel Peeves and General Grumpiness …

By Raghunath | Published: November 19, 2008

Wise people say you should not talk when you are angry. I say screw them. Who the hell do they think they are?? So anyways, as I did a little bit of travelling again (Seoul), I realized that for some reason, nature and the energies around me always gang up against me to make sure [...]

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Of Traffic annoyances and Idiocy on hyderabad roads.

By Raghunath | Published: February 11, 2008

Driving on the roads of Hyderabad was never a fun experience. The fact that as infrastructure changes so do the annoyances that are a part and parcel of driving in Hyderabad is a subject for a lot of research that I am sure some behavioral sciences student should undertake on their path to suicide. What [...]

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Where the hell is cellphone civility?

By Raghunath | Published: July 31, 2007

People seemed to have forgotten how to be civil on a mobile phone! When someone gives u a call that you are unable to take, the civil thing to do is to reply to the person who tried to reach you by calling or messaging back. Right? Wrong! Apparently, people decide not to reply to [...]

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Did they suceed? LORD MACAULAY’S ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT 2 FEBRUARY 1835

By Raghunath | Published: January 29, 2007

“I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen a single person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such high calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless [...]

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Innocence and Reality.

By Raghunath | Published: January 10, 2007

Everytime there is an election coming close, people get killed. Everytime there is an issue to protest over, people get killed. Everytime people get killed, they were innocent of anything that concerned the issue. Why is it that the only casualities in a fight against oppression or for rights or values, the people who are [...]

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