India is no stranger to religious images appearing on walls, goats, trees and all kinds of other things, but this could well be the first case of an image of liquor bottle appearing on anything. And the incident has taken place in the state of Gujarat where consumption of liquor is prohibited. Vijay Modi, a resident of Ahmedabad, has claimed that an image of Smirnoff vodka bottle appeared on the bottom of his electric iron this morning.
November 30, 2009 | Filed under
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An MBA from a top tier management institute of India has created a stir around the world. He has invented an all encompassing TLA that can be used to describe the work that management graduates do. The acronym – CIP (Ch*tiyaps in Progress) is now universally accepted and understood. Oxford is planning to debate, discuss and include this TLA in its dictionary in the next revision. This is probably the first engineered Indian word to be included in the Oxford Dictionary.
November 29, 2009 | Filed under
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The previous week was quite eventful – Indian leaders got all excited on the Liberhan Commission report on Babri demolition, two gatecrashers enjoyed dinner hosted for Manmohan Singh by Barack Obama, India remembered Mumbai terror attacks, and news from Dubai suggested that economic recovery could well receive a setback. Phew! Our Sunday Magazine couldn’t have profiled all these events, but a few have been. Take a look.
November 29, 2009 | Filed under
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“Have you ever farted loudly in public?” was the question that popped up on his computer screen when Ankit Agarwal was taking CAT 2009 online at the Delhi Business School center here. A shocked and upset Ankit looked around to find equally dumbfounded faces of fellow test takers at the center. A few minutes passed when all of them realized that CAT servers had been hacked.
November 28, 2009 | Filed under
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An MBA student, who was tricked by his girlfriend into being filmed by a mobile phone, was shocked to see the same mobile MMS clip being circulated all over the country. The MMS showed the 23-year old student accessing porn, and squirming in exhilaration while doing it, from a computer located in the library of the business school. Shamed by this mysterious aspect of himself coming to the fore, the boy has decided to drop out of the school and become a naga sadhu.
November 27, 2009 | Filed under
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The whole nation was shell-shocked when Amar Sabbhulkar, a 26-year-old unemployed youth, forgot that it was first anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks on Thursday. This despite the fact that all the news channels of India were relentlessly trying to remind everyone that Mumbai was attacked and hundreds of innocent people were killed exactly a year back. Amar’s atrocious amnesia came to the fore when he appeared live on ABS News.
November 26, 2009 | Filed under
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Exactly a year back, ten terrorists came to Mumbai to kill people and to get killed in the process, so that they were rewarded virgins in the heaven after they died. Nine of them were killed while one called Kasab was captured alive. While we know how Kasab has been doing in the last one year, have we ever wondered what happened to those nine killed?
November 26, 2009 | Filed under
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McKinsey and Company, the global leaders in management consultancy services, have proposed a new framework for companies dealing with employee unrest arising out of unfriendly and unpopular business decisions. The framework, published in the visitor edition of The McKinsey Quarterly, advocates a four-pronged strategy called FART to deal with the dissatisfaction among employees if and when they fail to appreciate prudent business decisions like cost-cutting measures.
November 25, 2009 | Filed under
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My dumb boss gives me some absolutely vague instructions and asks me to meet some absolutely ridiculous deadlines. This leaves me distraught, sitting with my head resting down on my arms on the desk as I look down on the floor with utter dismay. And then this strong urge runs through my senses – I want to streak naked through my office.
November 25, 2009 | Filed under
Ask Pagla |
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Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has tested a new drug called Liberhanagra that is reportedly capable of causing multiple orgasms among straitlaced old fogeys. The drug was successfully tested in two laboratories called RS and LS among volunteers numbering over 600. Scientists could record strange sounds and catcalls, believed to be emanating out of sheer excitement and titillation, as soon as primary doses of Liberhanagra was administered to them.
November 24, 2009 | Filed under
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