Author: akshay

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is queer…

The personal belongings of Mahatma Gandhi was bought by Vijay Mallya for $ 1.8 million (1 800 000 U.S. dollars = 93.0232558 million Indian rupees) from James Otis after bidding over the phone. James Otis had said to the Indian government that he would give the properties free of cost to Indians, if the government…

Since there is a basic limitation with blogging that doesn’t allow a static home page, this page will henceforth do the function of the home page. So, what should I introduce first? You can navigate through various important places like my profile, feeds, contact me, etc. through the buttons on the top. Also there are…

The election schedule for the Lok Sabha general elections 2009 was announced along with other details, a few minutes ago by Dr N Gopalaswamy (chief election commissioner) at Chief Election Commission. To get the press release given by the election commission, click here (pdf) The elections this year will be conducted in 5 phases. Phase…

So. Are you bored up with reading blogs of common men like me?Then see these blogs.Aamir Khan (posts come once in a while, but they come from heart)Amitabh Bachan(At least one post per day)MammoottyRoger Federer (My personal favourite) Too little? First read these. More to come in coming days

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A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a Rupee 500 note. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this Rupee 500 note?” Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this note to one of youbut first let me do this.” He proceeded to crumple the…

Blogger has updated its followers gadget to include the Google FriendConnect feature too, so that everybody with a gmail, yahoo or aim open id can now follow the blogs. It’s just very simple, earlier you could follow only if you had a blog for yourself. But now, you can follow with just an open ID…

Heard of Bucephalus or Kanthaka. From the title you’d have understood that they are two horses. But the fact is that they are not just horses. They are the horses of two great men. Bucephalus was Alexander the Great‘s horse and the most famous actual horse of antiquity (a long period of cultural history centered…