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Slumdog Millionnaire…The Oscar Race

By abhishek at 23 January, 2009, 11:21 am

Voila! Danny Boyle’s Slugdog Millionnaire has made it to the Oscars in style. It has been nominated for 10 Oscars including ‘Best Picture’. After winning a few Golden globes here and a few critics awards there, this movie which has a host of Indian actors has been recognised by what is widely believed as the most coveted award in motion picture history (okay, in commercial cinema).

What makes Obama’s speech special?

By abhishek at 23 January, 2009, 10:05 am

Some 2 million people gathered around at National mall in Washington to watch Barack Obama take oath as the 44th president of the United States. It would be interesting to know whether so many of them showed up because they didn’t have to report to work that morning. With unemployment rate hovering at 7.2 percent, the economy is facing a possible threat of deflation. Basically, USA is facing a pretty rough time. The country’s dispirited mood needed a dose of hope (read: direction) and that came in the 15 minutes that Obama took stage…

How to Fight Software Piracy?

By abhishek at 20 December, 2008, 6:44 am

Software piracy is a problem that steals from the richest software company to the home brew enthusiasts. Companies like Microsoft must be spending millions just to come up with ways to fight software piracy but not eveyone has that kind of money.

F1 Syntax Error

By abhishek at 18 October, 2008, 2:30 pm

Albert Einstein had once famously said, ‘Any fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent; it takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.’ I am not too sure if I believe in this anymore. Sample the following sentence from the help file of SAP, a leading software provider (and a Fortune 500 company)

Is India really one nation?

By abhishek at 9 September, 2008, 2:30 pm

If the transfer of lands in Kashmir can arouse so much national interest, why doesn�t the bureaucratic apathy, absolute sorry state of disaster management and Central govt�s lackadaisical approach, arouse any angst in our god fearing, sensitive (as depicted jingoistically in most Bollywood movies) Indians.