Bal Thackeray and The Adam Sutler

V for vendetta is one of my all time favourite movie and I remember almost every scene in the movie. The main antagonist in the movie, The High Chancellor Adam Sutler, played by John Hurt with a typical french beard, was characterized as a deeply religious man, spouting hatred and "Fear" was his main weapon in his rise to power...

Recently I was reading about Bal Thackeray and came across one of the picture of him with a french beard and only one face came to my mind immediately...

that of Adam Sutler...

I know that the movie is loosely based on a comic... I was just wondering if there are more similarities between Adam Sutler and Bal Thackeray other than the french beard...

Great movie though...

The Story of Bottled Water

I buy bottled water. At restaurant I ask for one. At the gym to quench my thirst. Whenever I travel , I make sure I have one in my backpack...

Recently I read a story in BBC... How slick advertising and marketing campaigns can turn something that was free into a multi-billion dollar industry...


In the last 40 years the bottled water industry has gone from a business prospect that few took seriously, to a global industry worth billions of pounds.


While the above link teach us some marketing lessons, the exploitative nature of the industry is well explained in the below video...

Modi, Kalmadi, Raja, Raju, Chavan, Yedurappa and Ramamurthy...

Lalit Modi - Accused of Corruption in IPL - Is busy doing a seminar in London...

Kalmadi - Who made CWG front line news for all things wrong - is in Guangzhou voicing for Asiad in India 2019 and criticizing the shooting range there(This is the Highlight)...

A Raja - The man caught in the center of the storm. The mother of all scams "The Spectrum" - Attends the wedding in Madurai...

Ramalinga Raju - Biggest Corporate scam in Indian History - Jumps hospital now and then while CBI is trying hard to charge him...

Yeddyurappa - Busy defending his sons on the alleged land grab - Has gone to seek blessings of Sai Baba...

Ashok Chavan - Involved in the Adarsh Society Scam - Still waiting to be quizzed by the CBI...
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Ramamurthy - Caught for demanding 1500 - Swiftly arrested and put behind bars...

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Eppadi Iruntha Naan Ippadi Aayittaen...

The other night I was watching the Expendables movie and during this particular scene when Stallone, Arnold and Bruce meet...

Only one scene came to my mind seeing Arnold walking...
"Eppadi Iruntha Naan Ippadi Aayittaen..."

Pakse, 4000 Islands, Wat Phou and more...

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Udon Thani & Ban Chiang

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Waiting for August 14...

Just an innocent status message in gtalk had my friends buzzing me... What's with 14th... what’s with it...

I asked them to guess what it would be...

Some guessed the as usual stuff "Are you returning to India..?", "Machi Enna kalyanama(Are you getting married)..?"

One asked me "Have you become a Pakistani kya..?"

The other... "Hey is it your Birthday?"... I said "No"... "Will you be getting your appraisal then?" he asked again... I couldn't help but laugh... "August 14th could become my birthday... But never will I get my appraisal(so confident about my appraisal)"

One other buzzed me with excitement... "Endhiran release ah..?"

Other friend just noticing the 14th asked me "Are you proposing someone..?" mistaking Aug 14th as the Valentine’s Day... He is working too much I guess...

When I told that 14th is when the "English Premier League" starts... I could see what the reaction on the other side of the chat would be...

"Ithellam Oru Polappu..?" :D


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Lunag Prabang... The UNESCO World Heritage City

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Ho Prah Keo, Si Saket... Vientiane

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BC and the language exchange

Last week we went to a client party and I was seated next to a colleague from client team. As usual we were discussing many things and I'm being a language enthusiast asked him to teach some words from his language in exchange of mine...

So I said "First things first... Teach me some important words... The ones I should know when someone shouts at me and I shouldn't be looking stupid not knowing them... I mean the words that pisses one off..." and gave him a big smile... "I will teach you loads of those kind..." I added...

All of a sudden he said "Hey I know one Indian word.... B**** Ch***..."

I couldn't control my laugh and told him politely...

"Don't use that word when something's not working in the system..."