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Back when I was a kid, my dad was really worried about me. He wanted to see me as a ‘complete person’ and as an ‘all-rounder’. I just wanted to buy the latest tinkle and WWF cards. This, as you can imagine, let to lots of “conflicts-of-interest” between us.

Dad: “There are bigger things in life than Tinkle, you know”
Me: “Like the mega-annual, 250-page special Tinkle comics edition? Wow! Are you going to get me that?”
Dad: “OK. Let’s start again. You need to develop new hobbies.”
Me: “I don’t l… Continue

Appearing to be smart is actually more important than being smart itself, because if you are really smart, then you have to do stuff like study Physics and write books. But if you are only pretending to be smart, you get all the benefits, without any of the downside. It’s a good deal, trust me. I’ve been doing this for 25 years now, so I can claim to be somewhat of an expert.

Here are some of my tips to make you appear smart:

1. Use words that sound familiar.

It is a common misconception that… Continue

There have been some dramatic events happening in the stock markets recently. The papers are full of news like “Sensex sees largest fall” and similar things that don’t make sense. And so, I’ve applied my higher powers of reasoning to figure out just what is going on. For your benefit, here’s a short FAQ on the stock market.

Q: What is this SENSEX business?
A: SENSEX is short for SENSeless EXperience. It summarizes what that stock brokers and investors feel when they are trading. Trading in the… Continue

Back in School, our teachers had this weird mission of “All Round Development” of the students. They used to abuse and torture kids to various “activities” under this pretext. Did you guys have the S.U.P.W subject? - Socially Useful Productive Work, officially, but we used to call it “Some Useful Period Wasted“. This was the class where they made us paint pots and carve birds out of bars of soap.

Anyway, so this one year, our teachers decided that we should put on a “Talent Show” for the Annual… Continue

I’ve seen a lot of bad movies, and you can all believe me when I say I’m a bad movie expert. And this movie “Race”, is the best of them all. In the worst possible way.

Race is not one bad movie. It is many bad movies all rolled into one. This movie has so many twists and turns that it is a total wreck. The story goes in one direction, crashes into the wall, then reverses, then goes into another tangent, only to smash head on with a cow, then the story gets on a horse and rides around the town a… Continue