Six months on
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The mainstream media moved on to cover new stories. We stayed put on the coast and reported. Looking for colours of hope amidst grim realities. Like life in shelters.
We listened to people, told their stories and made sure that somebody listened. Our readers made power-points, debate papers and even a documentary film – on bad shelters. Officials admitted that the shelters were a “shame” and agreed to build better ones. We did not make the change – but just a small contribution to it.
Disaster does not mean the end of life. Or reporting.
Alphabets and Culture
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Just thinking aloud here — is the culture of a country/tribe directly proportional to the number of alphabets in its language?
Sania — Hope or Hype?
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There is no doubt about her talent. There is no doubt about her good looks as well. There is no doubt about her attitude at all. And when I watched her play the second round match at Wimbledon, there was no doubt about her immaturity also.
No doubt she played well, and 9 out of 10 times she guessed right her opponent’s moves, but her shot selection was, as Boycott would say, “Utter rubbish”. That, IMO is immaturity. She has a long way to go, the sooner she realises it, the better. Hope she does that, for I would anyday prefer watch her play her girl-tennis than Serena Williams doing, well, anything in this world.
Error Report - Send or Dont Send?
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Anyone using Microsoft XP should be very familiar with the above pop-up dialogue box. Anytime the OS thinks that something might go wrong, it pops up this dialogue. It is very irritating to begin with, but I had a hearty laugh today.
I was trying to connect to my office network from the laptop and the dialling software failed and aborted itself. As usual, XP pops this question. This time I chose “SEND” and guess what? It throws up another dialogue saying, There is no internet connection!! Very intelligent software you see 
No wonder it is very popular with kids — makes you laugh most of the times.
