If God...

As they say, never judge a book by it's movie.
I would more like to put that as 'never judge a book by it's title' after I read 'If God Was A Banker' written by an IIM alumni named Ravi Subramanian.
What a waste of time (and of course, my hard earner Money :P)!
The title looked so appealing. And especially since I have developed this affinity for picking up books by Indian authors, I was very keen to start reading this one.
However, I was left hugely dissaponited when i somehow forced myself to complete this is less than 2 days. It's nothing more than a Sleaze fest. It's supposed to be a fictionalised account of incidents involving a set of "fresh out of college" B school Grads who join the banking operations of a Pvt. International bank in India. Goes back into the early 80's when Pvt banking was seen purely as a domain of the select Wealthy few. (Although I somehow cannot help but feel why this couldn't be a true story considering the fact that the author himself is an IIM grad and a Banker). The author's descriptions about the everyday scenarios in the professional lives of the protagonists, the marketing campaigns, their mercurial rise in their careers all seems to be very cliche'd.

The only positive is that it has a very simple narrative. Maybe one could try reading this if they're making a 24 hr train journey. Else, give this one a miss and you won't be missing much!

Honesty Business

HONESTY is the best policy; but by the rule of eliminations, isn't Dishonesty the second Best?

Sights from Meerut, U.P, India

Shame Games

Millions of Rupees have been pumped in by Celebrities and industrialists alike even before the BCCI's megashow, the IPL, has even kicked off. I know a lot has already been written about this already and a lot more flashed in the media , but there dosen't seem to be anything wrong with professional cricketers making some money, does it?
However, the question is whether we need any more cricket at all? Isn't there enough out there already? The BCCI could have rather started a drive to improve paypackets and prize money in the already existing Domestic competitons like the Ranji, Irani and Dullep trophies. (That would have been enough incentive for our 'ICON' players to play the regular league season and maybe even attract overseas players).

Just a few thoughts though.

MS Dhoni had a winning bid of USD 4 Million from the Chennai IPL team

Ironically, the winners of the 2008 edition of the Premier Hockey league took home a total prize money of around 4 Million Rs. The BAI could not afford to secure any shuttle cocks for a preparatory session before the team left for the Thomas & Uber Cup asian Zone matches.

Chak De Indian sport and Chuk De Indian Sport administrators!

EQ

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This is where I went to School

http://stfrancis100yrs.com/

This is my dear School completing a hundred years in 2008.
A great institution that it is, it was really refreshing to see the updates on the Website.
Check out the Photographs section. Simply awesome!

P.S. Too overwhelming to give any details...the photgraphs themselves are too exhaustive.

Breathless? Not quite, but almost there!

This Saturday saw the 'Cheers to India' Promotion concert stopping over at Mumbai. The trio of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy entertained the Mumbai crowd with a power-packed rendition of their popular bollywood compositions.

Starting with the recent JBJ number, the trio performed hits from their other compositions like DCH, KANK, Hey Baby!... And although it was the penultimate day of the Dandiyas and more importantly the Indo-Aussie T20 tie, the three thousand odd crowd showed why these guys are amongst the more popular composers in Bollywood. Accompanying them were the rookies Anusha Mani and Raman (hey baby fame).I personally enjoy most of their compositions which frankly make for some easy listening. They've sure come a long way from their 'Instant Karma' (The DANCE MASTI series of albums) days and from the time when Shankar used to restrict himself to the Southern industry, singing especially for ARR.

This brings me again to the point of why Mumbaikars still can't seem to be able to have more concerts in their City. Bangalore always tops the choice for international artists when they decide to stopover in India. Whatever, the reasons behind this, this certainly does not augur well for the Mumbai crowd.

Certainly hope that we can have a U2 /Black Eyed Peas... concert soon in Mumbai.