Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I want dignity before happiness – for, it precedes happiness. This disturbing news comes to you via Huffington Post: More than a thousand people gathered Wednesday outside a metro-Atlanta shopping mall in hopes of being placed on a waiting list for federal housing assistance. Fights broke out, children […]
Long before Before Jim Cramer became a TV icon, he used to participate on Silicon Investor bulletin board. Circa 1998-2000 I had a few nasty exchanges with him. I once told him (paraphrasing), “Jim, when history is written about the Go-Go 90s, you will go down in the books a icon of the cheer leading […]
With current financial turmoil entering its fourth year, it is time to reflect on things that got us here. Today Ben’s bandits at the Fed announced that they will buy US debt (“in small quantities”, yeah – right!) to stimulate the weakening economy. Call this quantitative easing 2 or plain old printing, it only means […]
KV Reddy is undoubtedly the best director in the 76 year history of Telugu cinema. He can take a silly fantasy and embed it in Mahabharat epic (Mayabazar) or even sillier fantasy set in medieval times (Jagadekaveeruni Katha) or a regular social drama (Donga Ramudu) and make a fantastic entertainer out of each one of […]
In an article today, Times of India featured Telugu flavored radios that are not based in India. TORi was covered. While I question the claims made by some operators, this article is an interesting read – at least for me. Turn up the radio: Time to bond by Padmini Copporapu Increasing Number Of Radio Stations […]
One of my passionate topics, which I often discuss on this blog is the fleecing of students by for-profit higher education institutions. Whenever I see news like this, I feel angry and hurt. I can certainly hope that the likes of University of Phoenix are shut down for good – sooner, rather than later. This […]
మనిషన్నాక కూసంత కళా పోషణ. Watch, you will not regret.
Aug 5, 2011 Update On the heels of the 512 point drop in DOW yesterday, one would be tempted to tune to CNBC for hand-holding – forgetting the fact that CNBC is one of the enablers of bubblonomics, a cheerleader for failed policies, and a mouth piece for fraudsters. First, listen to what Jim Cramer […]
Whether you finally decided to shed sassyhacker957@gmail.com for a more professional handle or you want to swap Google accounts for less embarrassing reasons, Google doesn’t have a built-in system for migrating your data to a new account. So we figured it out. A lot of us have a ton of data stored in Google’s services, but […]
Thank you to all those of you that expressed concern with regards to my safety. I would to take this opportunity to clarify some of the distortions that have been put out by several media houses in the last 24 hours. I have been working on getting my book translated for over 3 months and […]
This is a great website to explore ourselves. Great idea by V. Kiran Kumar. Please take a minute, register yourself and enter your details. It will be helpful to other Telugus who may be moving to your area or coming to your country for the first time from India.
[Developing] Ladies and gentlemen, TRS may have won the by-elections by spreading misinformation and lies, stoking the emotions and by orchestrating hate against people of Rayalaseema and coastal districts. Spineless leaders of major political parties played into the hands of TRS rhetoric and handed them a victory. All this proved only the obvious – people […]
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests Coffee for Health, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, […]
One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from their trip, […]
