In the United States, housing market is bad, economy is bad, and job market is bad. But we do have one thing to be happy about. I filled my gas tank up last night to $2.75 a gallon, and then this is what I read this morning…
While consumers celebrate cheap gas prices, OPEC is panicking. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has rescheduled their “Extraordinary Meeting” three weeks early to deal with the 50% drop in oil prices since July. Oil prices rose to over $68 a barrel today …

My good friend Adarsh (Addy) is a Chef, who fine tuned his skills at the Oberoi Center of Learning and Development (OCLD). Specialises in bakery and dessert. One fine day a few freinds and myself were succesfully able to convince him to display his culinary skills at my mom’s kitchen. It was a perfect saturday night at my folks house and Addy was sweating it out in the kitchen.  On the menu was Italian soup and pasta, garlic bread followed by the dessert - Brownie with hot chocolate sauce and …

I am enthralled. On a dead bowling track, and on a pitch with an even bounce, and on a wicket with less turns than even the national highways, team India cracked open the Australian test team twice in about 165 overs.  Sure, the Indian batsmen played well but that did not contribute to this handsome victory as much as the two other aspects in the game - bowling and captaincy. There were many instances throughout the game that can prove proactive captaincy and lethal bowling, but this one instance when Mishra got Clarke stands out …

We all use passwords, and recently over a casual conversation with a friend I realized that my life will be over if I wake up one day to a password amnesia. Postmen gave way to emails, the instant telephone fixed line calls gave way to instant chit chats on messengers, walking into a bank transpired into strolling into the ATM’s, and key locks were replaced by punch in digital machines. While this led a way to the modern world we live in, it launched one curse…password.
Honestly, I’ve had too much of …

Few months ago I was waiting at an airport to board a flight that was about 2 hours delayed. Sitting alone at an airport with expensive wi-fi can be boring, so I walked into a small book store to shoot time. The collection of books seemed limited and since I was in mood for some story reading I set my eyes on John Grisham’s #1 New York Times Bestseller, The Broker. I fail to understand how books get the tag of #1 New York Times Bestseller, but if this book …