No Service Tax on Housing/Construction for Payments Made Before July 1 2010

I’m not a tax expert but I just read this Service Tax Notification No. 36/2010 Dated Jun 30th 2010 Service Tax Notification No. 36/2010June, 30th 2010 Government of IndiaMinistry of Finance (Department of Revenue) New Delhi, the 28th June, 2010 Notification No. 36/2010 – Service Tax G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section […]

Posted on: 2 July 2010 | 12:47 pm

This Summer Adobe Air Is Coming To Rescue You

Pissed by the sweltering heat, I started looking out for some good room coolers and look what I found over at mouth shut, none other than apna Adobe has launched room air coolers under the brand Adobe Air. Now, that ought to give the Air platform a visibility right down to the rickshaw wala and […]

Posted on: 3 March 2009 | 1:56 pm

Listening To: Paolo Nutini – New Shoes

Loved the new Puma ad on TV but didn’t know it was an actual song until I read a friend’s tweet about it. Been listenin’ to it in a loop for some half an hour now (Yes, I do move away from my regular metal regime and listen to some light’ish music “some” times 🙂 […]

Posted on: 19 September 2008 | 1:45 pm

Plagiarism and Times Of India – Are They Synonyms?

I’ve been pissed by shoddy journalism in mainstream media for quite some time now, with reports ranging from being grammatically incorrect to being outrageously wrong and untrue. But just when I thought this was the worst, I came across another ungly side of this multi-faceted devil that mainstream media is, when Priyanka (aka Twilight Fairy/TF […]

Posted on: 3 September 2008 | 6:29 am

A Farce Portal That Rediff Is

Although Rediff (rediff.com) is a portal popular only amongst the frustrated Indian male population, who think that this is the only place where they can be at their chauvinist best, but still it should maintain some kind of sanity in the articles that it publishes. Somebody at work forwarded me this link How to pay […]

Posted on: 1 August 2008 | 1:41 pm

“The Square Root of 3” – Kumar Does It Again

I watched “Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay” a few days ago. Cool movie, though not as awesome as “Go to White Castle” one. But one thing that I liked was the poem that Kumar (Kal Penn) recites in an attempt to woo back her love by embarrassing himself more than he had embarrassed […]

Posted on: 17 July 2008 | 10:33 am

‘cuz we all wanna be Rockstars…

But we don’t want to do the effort involved in playing the guitar, or the drums or even just head-banging to the music. All we want is to flick the long curly hair back, raise both the hands towards the sky and soak in the euphoria of the crowd chanting our name. For the people […]

Posted on: 4 July 2008 | 4:32 pm

Poetry-Shoetry

(More like heavy metal baritonal incoherent inconsequential utterings, rants, ramblings, or in short “noise“. TO BE IGNORED BY EVERYBODY) you draw me to a corner, and you whack away, “quota” is all you’ve got with you, to throw in everybody’s court, and say “ur turn” cuz u know noone will volley back everyone’s got to […]

Posted on: 17 June 2008 | 2:23 pm

What The Indian News Channels Thrive On?

Answer: “FUD” FUD = Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt As we make inroads into newer means of broadcasting technologies, the users of these techs seem to take a few steps backwards (and pretty giant ones at that). In the race to grab the maximum viewers, they have switched their primary profession from news to a bollywood […]

Posted on: 13 June 2008 | 5:35 pm

Delhi Bloggers Present “Social Media And Blog Camp” – 7th June ’08

The Delhi Bloggers are having a one day “Social Media and Blog Camp” on 7th June 2008. So, mark your calendars right now. Details follow: Date : 7th June’08 (Saturday) Agenda : A one-day semi-camp style unconference which brings together stakeholders and audiences of social media and blogging. Venue : Indiatimes office,              Times Internet […]

Posted on: 25 May 2008 | 6:50 am