Inverse Karma

Since the time my memory serves me, I remember having led a life of discipline. Sadly, most of the times though, the discipline was of an enforced nature – much to my displeasure and against my consent. Parents, grandparents, aunts, relatives, school teachers – they all took turns in laying down specific instructions every now [...]

Facebook has become one of the most important part of our online social lives. It helps you connect with your friends and family; you can catch up with all the things happening in their lives. You can meet new people and make new friends. And the list of great things you can do with the [...]

I’ve had enough. I see a lot of North Indians making snide remarks about Chennai everywhere – work, Facebook, Twitter, food courts, shopping malls, trains. And today I will try to drill some sense into their heads. There is always a “Oh wait a minute, I forgot you live in Chennai!”. The next time I [...]

Mobile Number Portability (MNP) has been silently fought for by TRAI for over a year now, and in November 2010, it became a reality. Haryana was the first Indian state where it was introduced, launched by the Communications minister Kapil Sibal. And very soon (tentatively, January 20), it will be available in Tamilnadu — and [...]

As you guys know, Inverse Karma had been hacked, (twice!), thanks to an utterly inadequate and insolent webhosting company that I’ve been hosting IK with, for almost 2 years now! Yes I am looking at you, SquareBrothers. The first time around, IK was hacked by the Turkish hacker iSKORPiTX. The automated script specifically replaced all [...]

Ever since all the hype surrounding Rajinikanth’s magnum opus (yet!), Enthiran, there has been a slew of SMSs doing the rounds, all hyperbolic facts about his super-awesomeness. I can imagine one enthusiastic Rajni fan starting this off by doing a search+replace on Chuck Norris facts, which then rolled off to become a similar meme, with [...]

So last night, I was reading Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead with rapt interest and *poof* went the tubelight, filling the room with darkness, with a faint glow of light emitting from my mobile, which meant I was getting yet another stupid message from my service provider to choose one of their devotional songs for my [...]

Why does every single person I set next to in the train stare at me like I asked for their kidneys when all I wanted was to share whatever I’m eating with them? Why does time fly so fast? When we were in the final days of college, it felt like we just got out [...]

As I slowly but surely drown into the monotony of office life, I still look back at my wonderful 5 months at Mysore. At the beginning of his year, I was sent there to undergo training for my employer. With great hopes of learning and of a personal transformation, I entered the gigantic campus of the [...]

When I was a kid, mom used to tell me at times, “All this can only happen in the movies.” Many a times it happened, I’d watch the idiot box or the big screen in a movie hall, one really smart guy, supposedly a Software Professional, would do things with a computer, earn big bucks, [...]