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Times of India Violating Copyright

The below complaint is a repost of the complaint posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/twilightfairy/2720464496 with permission to repost here.

One of my pictures got “flicked” from Flickr and got published in a supplement of TOI’s called, “what’s hot”, dated 18th July’08. I happened to take a look at this supplement very much by chance. I have no idea, how [...]



Tata Indicom Broadband - Worst Service

I did the biggest mistake of my life taking a Tata Indicom Broadband connection.
The problems started from the very first day I filled up the Application form. I was told that we will get the connection within 10 days of filling the application which never happened. After numerous calls and numerous emails to the customer [...]



Trashy Times of India

This is the front page of Time of India for September 1, 2008.

This is the back page of Time of India for September 1, 2008.
I don’t know about you, this is definitely not high quality journalism rather tabloid journalism.
Why? because the front page image (today’s actress has more clothes than usual) which shows an actress [...]

BSNL, a hopeless company

Could BSNL come up with anymore excuses for not servicing their customer?
First, I raise a complaint against BSNL through the 198 number. The next day, someone from BSNL calls up and says “Sir, what is the problem?”. I tell him, “I am unable to browse the internet”. Few seconds later, serviceman replies “Ok [...]

Cheated by googlecash dot com

I had been scammed by www.googlecashcow.com owner of the site located in mumbai INDIA, ph no.022-22825669.I had registered with this site and in return receive a link from them which is not working at all.I ring up to them many times wasting my time and money and when I got a person to talk to [...]

Reviews

Chrome and Firefox 3.1b Memory Management

Which browser (only considering, Firefox and Chrome) manages memory efficiently?
Read on to find out what I discovered.
From the initial use of Firefox 3.1 beta, I did not experience the performance enhancements as affirmed by some of the fellow users. So I decided to checkout the memory usage of Firefox 3.1b1 against Chrome 0.3.154.3.
The tests were [...]

Hari Puttar Movie - A Comedy of Terrors

 Posted by: Shilpa Jamkhandikar (Reuters Blog)

Warner Brothers did get one thing right.
‘Hari Puttar - A Comedy of Terrors’ does have similarities to a children’s film - not ‘Harry Potter’, but ‘Home Alone’.
A child alone at home, two bumbling goons out to get him and whole scenes lifted from Chris Columbus’s very popular Home Alone.
Unfortunately, neither does [...]



Celebrate at Celebrations

If its raining or hot, don’t bother to go to Celebrations. Its a roof top restaurant located at Road No.1, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.
  As you can see from the photographs, the restaurant provides a spectacular view of Hyderabad at night.
As we entered the restaurant plot, which was extraordinarily decorated with plants, small ponds, great lighting and [...]



Bollywood’s ‘Last Lear’ a treat for Shakespeare lovers

By Shilpa Jamkhandikar
MUMBAI (Reuters) - It’s not about Shakespeare and not based on “King Lear,” but fans of the Bard may find traces of both in a new Bollywood film set in modern-day India.
Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood’s biggest star, plays a reclusive stage actor in “The Last Lear,” one who quotes Shakespeare with relish and is [...]



Shantaram - An adventure you should read

 I have recently started reading the book called Shantaram. Its written by Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber, escaped heroin addict, an adventurer and a great writer.
Shantaram is, quite simply, the Arabian Nights of the new century. Anyone who loves to read has been looking for this book all their reading life. Anyone who [...]