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mows :to kill or destroy in great numbers or mercilessly

To Times of India Editors, here is the meaning of mows (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mows)

to kill or destroy in great numbers or mercilessly
to cut down with a scythe or sickle or machine

Time of India headline dated 2 Sep 2008, 2059 hrs IST 
DPS school bus mows down student  

This is not the only instance where Time of India has been misusing [...]

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 [...]

Reviews

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 [...]



Adventure into Ohri’s Serengeti

by Jairam Mehtha
So yesterday, I ventured into Ohri’s Serengeti Restaurant at Road No. 12, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad for dinner with my family. As we zoom into the front of the building, lot of vehicles are present waiting for it to be parked by the valet. Soon after I pulled in, a valet comes to the [...]