Rahul Tomar, whoever you are, you are the son of a thousand fathers

by AR Hemant on January 24, 2010 · 11 comments

in On life's futility, You know what pisses me off?

I have an Airtel number. For the past 15 months or so, I’ve been getting calls from Airtel asking me if they could talk to Rahul Tomar.

My name, as you can see, is not Rahul Tomar. I don’t know anyone called Rahul Tomar. I know plenty of Rahuls. But I’ve never known a Tomar. The only Tomar I know is Paan Singh Tomar.

So each time they’d call, I assured them I knew no such person. And each time, I’d be assured that I won’t be called again. But every few weeks or so, they would call back. [Continue Reading This Post]

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Richard Dawkins interviews Wendy Wright

by AR Hemant on January 20, 2010 · 43 comments

in Atheism, Nitpicking, Religion, Videos

Richard Dawkins, that man believers hate, interviews Wendy Wright.

Apparently, Dawkins confronted her after recieving her hate mail, and she agreed to an interview.

I saw all seven parts of this interview on Youtube this evening. As a comment on one of the video says:

“…props to Dawkins, though. I would have punched her in the throat five minutes in.”

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On India’s Fielding

by AR Hemant on January 7, 2010 · 3 comments

in Cricket, Nitpicking, You know what pisses me off?

My Photoshopping sucks but I hope the idea hits home. The Indian cricket team’s catching these days would embarrass school sides.

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My Monday Mornings

November 30, 2009

Objective: To reach office by 10 am.

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Busting the Popular Myths of Gujarat’s Prohibition

November 29, 2009

(This is a guest post I wrote for Repeal Prohibition: Life, liberty and beer in Gujarat!, an excellent blog on the subject anchored by Anirudh Singh Bhati, a law student in Gandhinagar, and a friend from high school.)
Myth: Pubs, bars and drinking are against Indian culture.
The consumption of alcohol and other intoxicants is as ancient [...]

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Morally Ambiguous

November 24, 2009
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Where Tendulkar stands among the highest scorers of all time

November 20, 2009

Cricket followers would know of one of the sport’s most famous records: Jack Hobbs’ record of 61,760 First Class runs.

Here’s a list of batsmen with 50,000 runs or more in First Class cricket.

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Ever wondered what Sachin Tendulkar’s CV would look like?

November 15, 2009

Sachin Tendulkar, AKA God, completes 20 years in international cricket today. I’ve tried to sum up his career in a CV.

There’s a case for adding a header here called “Sporadic Acts of Mind-Numbing Awesomeness”. Get the PDF and read it in your free time.

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Gadha-dharee Bheem

November 11, 2009

I know this is juvenile and some might even consider this blasphemous. But this goes to everyone from my generation who saw Mahabharat and Ramayana on Doordarshan and had trouble distinguishing between gadha and gada, two phonetically similar Hindi words with meanings that couldn’t be more different.

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