As I part, a quick word to the popular Shiv Sena: Get Over It. What did you ever think? That you could take the Bollywood gene out of us with your threats to stone us? I don’t think so. In fact, I’ll buy you guys tickets. But for heaven’s sake, spare us.

Drac gives it full-on 5/5

Direction, as they say, is the backbone of every movie. Not even for a second I thought that this film is directed by Karan Johar, you cannot resemble this work of his with any other previous blockbusters given by the same director. Karan Johar had proved himself the Jack of all trades. The direction of the movie embraces you, shows the concern & beautifully teaches you the basic moralities of life.

Rahul gives it 4/5

For Karan Johan (sic), I’ll say one thing, most of his movies have these huge songs with a 100 extras singing and dancing in the background. I wouldn’t say this movie does not have that, but all the songs fit perfectly into the story line. The story and concept is sweet and as I read rightly in some other reviews, sincerely executed.

The Rainmaker gives it 3/5

The surprise of the whole package though is Karan Johar to a great extent. From the days of ‘KKHH’, ‘K3G’, ‘KANK’ Karan has come a long way. But perhaps he has some more way to go and reach the destination that he is headed to [..] Camera by Ravi Chandran is Superb. Music by Shankar trio is a big let down with not even a single outstanding track. Sharbani Bhatija commits the same errors as in ‘Fanah’.

When the Magic Mouse was launched, I figured it was just a mouse, so it had to show up within a week or two (I remember the Mighty Mouse took three weeks to get here). Friends offered to send me the mouse; I chose to wait, even though it would cost more. How was I repaid? Kept waiting for three months, with no mouse in sight. There are reports of Magic happening at certain stores in Delhi, but the local Apple reseller tells me they must be importing them on their own (smuggling was the word used). I can imagine the plight of those waiting for the iPhone 3GS, but not being able to do anything other than to get it from the grey market.

The worst thing according to me, is that Paypal has enforced this policy change without any prior notice, any warning and is autonomously back dating the policy and enforcing it on already completed transactions, reversing them and causing huge inconvenience/loss to the stake holders. Ideally they should have announced in advance that From so and so date our new policy will apply, so that everyone could have made appropriate plans.

A , “ I don’t understand why did Ash get married to Ajay Devgan, when she was already in love with Salman? Why didn’t she run away from her house?

B ,” how could she? She was forced by her parents and she must have thought about the honour and feelings of her parents. May be she did not want to hurt her parents, or maybe she did not have guts to do it”

A,” that means Deepika (in Love Aaj Kal) was not bothered about her parents. She ran away after her marriage. She did not think about her parents, her husband and her in laws”

A, “moreover why did Ash not go back to Salman when her husband was ready to send her back?”

B,” Arre, she had fallen in love with her husband gradually ( dheere dheere)

While the intelligentsia of Calcutta prides itself on being fiercely secular and tolerant, the truth is that most educated Hindus in the city would never have had any substantive intercourse with a Muslim in their lives. And yet they would not hesitate to express their opinion on Muslims, Islam etc.

Almost every one in a typical intellectuals’ gathering – like this one I attended – would be Hindu. yet that is considered to be a citizens’ forum, rather than a HIndu one. But a gathering of Muslim intellectuals would be seen by Hindus as an exclusively Muslim affair, rather than a civic gathering.

A finger cracked through the eggshell walls of her daytime universe, cracked in and wiggled around. And so it was that the people of her universe turned and stared, its machinery squealed to a brief, annoyed halt. A portal opened up in the room, a new possibility unleashed. A new universe of dishevelment, bringing with it a flowerpot.

Now Lucknow, to be honest is really not one of those cites where social networking sites are used by a large part of the population no it is not that way at all. I was not able to convince many people to come to a tweetup and had almost given up but then came this guy Gaurav Srivastava a software engineer, he had kind of dug his heels in and so this first tweetup happened.

I certainly do not agree with the belief of some egoistic and insensitive dumbasses that a tiger is a magical symbol with mystical power in its organs. Let those same dumbasses experiment with celery or dark chocolates instead or better still, go fly a kite.

Bijoy Mohan explores the new NRI  paradigm :

The phrase “economic opportunity” is frequently used in economic discussions, but within India, it has always had a somewhat nebulous meaning. For generations, the opportunities open to citizens were determined by a socially stratified “caste” system and one’s place within it, which was itself determined by birth. A University of California at Santa Barbara essay referred to the 3,000 year old caste system as a, “…pernicious practice that discriminates against nearly a fourth of the country’s billion-plus population.” Naturally, such a system was not conducive to widespread prosperity or entrepreneurship, and as a result, neither flourished until the caste system began to wither away.

Fortunately, as the BBC reports, “…today, caste barriers have largely broken down in the large cities.” The result has been nothing short of transformative from an economic standpoint. A USA Today article from 2004 interviews Sumant Anand, a native Indian returning home after a three year absence. When asked about his friends, Anand remarked, “…they were all talking about opportunities in India rather than how to find jobs in the USA.” In a stunning turnaround from just ten or fifteen years earlier, Anand reports that, “…if you talk to people my age, nobody wants to leave India.”

‘Retardation’ is a condition that people are born with and hence cannot help.

According to me, any casual use of and jokes involving terms such as retard constitute highly insensitive humor.

Not cool at all.

And speaking of insensitive humor, yo-mamma jokes are no less.

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