Aseem's Blog

Well before you proceed, let me first make an honest confession. I have a sticky habit of giving misleading titles to my blog posts to attract attention, web traffic, flak, rotten tomatoes and eggs. So though the title might suggest that what is to follow is a shocking Salma Hayek video, essentially it is only a video translation of my last blog post, The Facebook Effect. Though I wudnt deny that you are very likely to see shocking images of the bootylicious Salma Hayek in the video below. [continue reading...]

Since my recent post, The Art of Choosing to Copy, I am seriously as shit scared as Amrish Puri in Barood when an avenging Akshay Kumar wants to burn him to death (Yes I watched that movie 3 times over!), as I seem to have got into this nasty habit of stealing titles of popular books for my own blog posts. And with yet another ripped-off book title used for this post, I am certain, that I will be inflicting myself with nightmarish dreams in which I am summoned by the court for infringing copyrights and eventually made to buy luxury cars for authors and build amusement parks for their kids. [continue reading...]

I got to admit, it’s extremely difficult to accept and remember that a whole year has just ended and a new one has begun. Ask my mean cable guy who burst out into laughter when a couple of days back I signed his bill with a 2010 date. Ask my sardar banker who wanted to avenge my last joke on him by proving that I (too?) was a fool and remarked “Happy New Year Sirji!”, when I gave him a deposit slip with a 2010 date. In short… bhai bahut khatarnak aadat lag gayi hai, public mein mamu bana deti hai. And so that you don’t make a fool of yourself in front of your boss and milkman, here are a couple of pics clicked by my sister to drill into your head that 2010 has finally ended and that now all new dates should end with a 2011! [continue reading...]

We all have a year in life which totally upsets the schedule we have been onto. It puts us on a rollercoaster ride of ups…and downs…and even more downs…and then ups… There is a moment when you think that you are at the abyss of life, while the very next moment shows you the whole world. That defines the year 2010 exactly as what it has been for me… A Rollercoaster Year! [continue reading...]

I do not at all intend to offer any competition to Sheena Ayengar’s book, “The Art of Choosing” or analyze why people choose to copy. But equipped with three case studies on myself, I plan to deduce how miserable I am at this art of choosing to copy. I would like to assume that none of us need any introduction to this choice which we all have been making during examinations since our preschool days, and would hence like to directly discuss the aforementioned case studies. [continue reading...]