Planet Vibzoid

The Presidential debate for the JNUSU elections which was held on the evening of October 31st, might just go down as the darkest day in the ...

third time lucky! yup...made it to JNU..finally!! am about a little more than a month old...and throughly enjoying every bit this experience...

and am still around...(it was yesterday) well...to begin with..i think i have finally grown up..coz one sure shot sign of it was that hardly...

is my new name... it so happened that i went to see off a friend of mine (a junior of mine in college...menon is what we call him, just to e...

hmm..we seem to be getting somewhere with this one...i am going to post the comments that i received for the previous post here and post my ...

Economic Sociology. a critique of mainstream economics and so far so good.will post more as i finish reading some more. and also that i can ...

we paved our own way!! (i know this is coming in late..but still..) there we were... boys and girls...juniors and seniors...all together..br...

in my mumbai... will be gone to pune..only 150 kms away...but somehow for me it always seems like an eternity away from mumbai... of this va...

coz' we will now take the Pakistanis' help to resist authority... this time it's a reminder of the Emergency to all of us who we...

each day as i talk to people as young (or old) as me or younger or older than me... the country they hail is israel "we really need to ...

by about five minutes and fortunately was in the opposite direction...travelling in a train on the same line. the streets are pretty empty t...

forever...as a journo of a tabloid...:) it's been about two years since i gave up reporting...in pursuit of perspective. i thought that ...

am dumbstruck!! completely... have nothing to say... coz' all my hard work..sweat and toil...hours of unpaid labour...have just gone dow...

at least till the weekend..as i sit and calculate death rates, infant mortality rates..and suicide mortality rates...and compare suicide rat...

this time by data... even as we work religiously on sundays...keeping the faith that probably all this number crunching will lead to some co...

learn Zulu... at least that's what Reebok learnt from a recent advertising campaign... advertising campaigns love to get as gimmicky as ...

...to about three years ago. i was working with a mumbai based tabloid. my friend and colleague had to go on an assignment to interview two ...

at IGIDR..assisting on a book on Agrarian Crisis in India. so it's back to hours spent in the library collecting data..entering..analysi...

so finally am in my favourit'est' city...waiting to start working..to get my mind off several things...including a disastrous end to...

Spent a week with someone who i hold in high regard...trekked up forests...sat by rivers...battled leeches and had a tryst with the Lion Tai...

Down Disturbed Depressed Disillusioned Defeated Destroyed. Do you feel powerful enough?

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That's what we are...in the debate on the Narmada project. Damned by the media, damned by the government and damned by journalists who c...

Economists that is... attended a seminar on the financial and economic factors in Terrorism..and it ended up being a micro lec on maximising...

I was all of a foot and half or two It was my very first time by the sea I squealed, a little in fear, a little in delight as the foamy edge...

... to know that the probability of a person supporting the Nuclear Disarmament movement in India is 1 out of 11!! that was the result of a ...

Shatranj Ke Khiladi! what a script! the man does it again...hilarious... a political satire on the waning Mughal Empire (of course it still ...

Pather Panchali... overwhelmingly beautiful...the imagery, the narration, and the soulful depths to which the camera could carry the human e...

of Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne... superficially about two village idiots... but the movie is so much more than that... a simple tale...much like a...

How i wish we could be five again and the biggest problem for us would be to wonder what my mum has packed for me in my tiffin box or if we ...