No More, No Less

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on March 15th, 2008

It has been there with us for more then 10 years now. It is beautiful. It is costly. It is rich in look. It adds to the colour of our whole household. But still we never use it. The last time I remember using it was way back in 2006 when we had the opportunity [...]

Can You Feel The Love Tonight?

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on March 13th, 2008

This post has been blogged by Bineeta Fialok with inputs by Siva Aditya
A spark in your eyes, the skipping of a heartbeat, butterflies in the stomach, a tingling in your toes. Oh my there you are! You have caught the disease they call ‘love’. Now, doesn’t that sound like the typical Mills and Boons definition [...]

Twelve

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on March 12th, 2008

There was a time when horror movies really frightened the day lights out of me. There was a feeling in me that I would be hounded by devils and evil spirits if I watched a horror movie or worse the ghosts would roam around during nights and might come to our house. Whenever the name [...]

Fragments of a Woman’s Mind

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on March 1st, 2008

By Bineeta Fialok
There’s a sea of torture I let myself wade through, every time I love you. Each breath drawn sends sharp needles down my throat right into my heart. The bleeding doesn’t begin and it doesn’t stop. Blood within blood, invisible, unnoticeable, its thirst insatiable. I draw the golden-black sword a hundred times a [...]

Is It “Fair” Enough?

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on February 6th, 2008

A usual  advertisement in the matrimony classifieds goes like this:
“A reputed business family seeks alliance for their handsome, tall, smart, highly qualified son earning a 6 figure salary with a beautiful, FAIR, tall, slim, educated, talented, cultured girl form a reputed business /professional family with traditional values.”
Whew!
I could never understand the thinking of the people [...]

Bone Idle!!

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on January 29th, 2008

A few days back I stumbled upon an article stating that the whole week would be celebrated as “Laziness Week” or something like that. What caught my eye was the way it was presented to the readers. It was written in such a way that as though they were indicating that now laziness could be [...]

Losing Someone You Love

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on January 4th, 2008

How does it feel when you lose some one who is very close to you? More so when you don’t realise their importance and presence in each and every part of your daily life until that time when you no longer can see them or live with them? I never cared to think to answer [...]

A Phenomenon Called Silence

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on November 12th, 2007

Silence is what I always have preferred over its more equally famous opponent, chattering. But during the last month, has been my site has been very silent as I was busy with my exams and this time, for the first time in my life I hated something to be silent, as I do not like [...]

Does Gandhi Require Nobel Prize?

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on October 2nd, 2007

It’s been almost 60 years since India has lost its Father of the Nation. Its way back in 1948 when Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated and from then to now there has been the same admiration for him even though few people still see him as a silly and weak guy who was selfish with his [...]

Google And Yahoo - Mergers and Acqusitions

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on October 1st, 2007

Merging of two companies or acquisition of one company by another always fascinated me. The fascination was not because of emergence of a new powerful company, but the mere idea of looking into the financial and accounting side of these mergers and acquisitions. In the past week or so, I have been listening to many [...]