Alka Dwivedi

“Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.” — Bhagat Singh Today, March 23rd is the Martyrdom of Sardar Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. When I read the above quote by Bhagat Singh, I thought he himself was made of that same stuff that’s why he was able to make supreme sacrifice for his [...]

Japanese are the true followers of Buuddha. Their calm and cool composer didn’t leave during recent Tsunami and earthquake. Imagine a monster in the form of Tsunami wave is chasing you to suck the life out of you and you are running for your dear life BUT STILL, STOP YOUR car when the traffic signal [...]

I wish I could see the name of the company on the water bottle.   Image Source: Dainak Jagran ( 29/09/09)

What Does It Mean To Be An Indian?  I copy pasted the whole thing without any shame. In fact, on the contrary I am feeling quite proud. Please take your time and read the post without being cynical.   A friend remarked to me that what defines America is its veneration of entrepreneurship. The French, [...]

Susan Boyle singing in Reality TV Show Britain’s Got Talent Today Amrit showed me this video and I was stunned for a while. PLEASE DO CLICK on this video and I promise you that you will not be disappointed. You will start believing that external beauty really doesn’t matter after few minutes and what counts [...]

Music maestro A.R. Rahman has added another first in his cap. Rahman has become the first Indian composer to win an Oscar for his music in Slumdog Milllionaire. Rahman was nominated in the Best Original Score and the Best Original Song categories for the Oscars and he won both. He has won best original score [...]

Soumya Viswanathan, 27, who worked as a producer with Headlines Today, was returning home at three in the morning from office. She phoned her father to say that she would be home in fifteen minutes. But she was found dead in her car on Nelson Mandela Road in Vasant Kunj locality. Her car was rammed [...]

Sudipta Chatterjee says: Bloggers, wake up! For long the mainstream media has been plagiarising pictures from our blogs for long. And they seem to get away with it with impunity. Because they don’t respond to emails. They don’t publish letters sent to the editor about their reporters lifting images with impunity. How can they — [...]

I came to know about this incredible fellow here. He ended Bill Gates’ 13-year reign as the richest man. He must be owning world’s biggest, largest, bestest … Whatever the money can buy must be under his belt. But I was sadly disappointed. He does not have a cellphone, has no computer on his desk, [...]

I got this from Ritu. Normally I don’t post forwarded materials from my mail box. But this one is different. Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks. Each kid will play Two sports And either take music Or dance classes. There is no [...]

This is simply brilliant. I have read this on Paradox’s blog. One evening a Cherokee elder told his grandson about the battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between the two ‘wolves’ that live inside us all. One is Unhappiness. It is fear, worry, anger, jealousy, sorrow, self-pity, resentment, [...]

I am feeling too tired to put the scanned images of the front page of our newspapers. But if you want you can view it here, Field Marshal Manekshaw Vs. Sehwag Today when I picked up the newspapers and ran a cursory glance over headiness I was simply amazed. No doubt journalists and newspaper editors [...]

I read this news yesterday, Teen “pregnancy pact” shocks Massachusetts city. They said: “A Massachusetts city is investigating an apparent teenage “pregnancy pact” that has at least 17 high-school girls expecting babies, four times more than last year, including many aged 16 or younger. A high school health clinic in the city of Gloucester became [...]

I was rewinding the track record of this honest, upright CBI official Arun Kumar. He took up Rizwan’s case and it became amply clear that it was a suicide and the haves father and uncle duo just abetted the crime. Rizwan committed suicide by throwing himself under a running train but the cutest thing was [...]

I find an interesting comment here. This time I haven’t asked Tanmoy whether I can publish his comment on my blog. I know he won’t mind. I remembered a small incident at a very early professional life of mine. In those days, I had just joined as an Economist with Confederation of Indian Industry. While [...]

I have read this article in “The Pioneer” months ago. It states, “Did you know that at least four to five weddings in Delhi equal the scale of the Chatwal and Mittal wedding every season? Just because their money is fatter than their name doesn’t mean that the big fat Indian wedding is not becoming [...]

On craigslist you can put ad about anything. See what a woman was saying about herself and her pursuit. >>>> Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I’m articulate and classy. I’m not from New York. I’m looking to get married to a guy who [...]

Every year steps are announced by college administration to curb the menace of ragging but it continued unabated. Why people want to rag their juniors? The equation seems a bit like mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. Since I was hounded by my mother-in-law, I will do the same to my daughter-in-law, though there is nothing personal. Just [...]

I have read the above line in Adnan Patrawala’s case. A spate of debate is being held on various forums about social networking site Orkut. Tomorrow if I plan a murder by using my cell phone will anyone blame Airtel or Reliance network? Should those networks be shut down because it is used by me [...]

I can’t help posting this. Those who are watching or reading news these days, need some solace. I thank Raymond for this divine distraction. Watching Pratibha Patil taking oath as President of India, I was thinking how low will we stoop? But we have already sunk to the unfathomable depth of lowness as citizens. This [...]