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TEXT YOUR DAY For all those who’ve got summer vacation - It’s a boring day and you don’t know what to do. But you are left with your mobile and you’ve got message booster with which you can send 16,000 free local SMS. Here are 5 fun ways to beat time. I guarantee that I’ve tried them and they are safe. Create your own slam-book. Here’s a sample. Nick name: Date of Birth: Hometown: Fav food: Fav dress: Best friend: Ambition: What gift would you like to get on your birthday?: Or you can ask a host of other questions that you’re afraid to ask your friend, for example, What do you think is my weakness? or How close am I to you? If you send it to some ten people, atleast six are bound to answer it. Say their horoscope Just ask their date of birth with which you can know what zodiac they belong to. Here’s the chart . Aries               March 22- April 20 Taurus          ...

Shashi Tharoor – a professional Twitter ‘bird’ and also burdened with the post of Minister of state for External Affairs, is blessed with being targeted by the media and the opposition parties not once, twice but thrice (or is it more?) Can’t wait for the next one… Shoaib Malik, Sania Mirza (and Ayesha Siddiqui too) - a seemingly love triangle that occupied the prime time slot of every news channel. A broken previous marriage (and heart) for him and a called off engagement with childhood friend, Sohrab Mirza for her, they eventually got married a day before. Let’s take it sportive , guys. M.F.Husain – Quatar nationality conferred, ah! at last! Let the most controversial artist spend his twilight years at peace. And finally, Chidambaram - Being the home minister doesn’t come cheap. Often being reduced to tears; constantly pressed for resignation; blamed for anything and everything that includes a dead man and a gun is the price he pays for it. Give the man a break, he really is...

The book surely sounds like a true story; of the author’s of course. But here is Bhagat’s clever disclaimer, “The story is inspired by my own family and experiences. However this book should be seen as a work of fiction”. The story is all about two II M-A graduates Krish and Ananya who belong to 2 different states of Punjab and Tamil Nadu respectively.   The former is also an II T graduate, lives in Delhi and hates his army dad to the core. The latter is a Tamil Brahmin who outstandingly loves chicken and beer (does being an II M graduate have anything to do with that?) After madly in love for two years, they decide to get married. They have got to convince their two very different families as they don’t want to elope. But things aren’t so easy. Their efforts to make their folks like each other, goes in vain. But the determined couple doesn’t let go of the situation just like that. Boy makes the girl’s family like him and girl tries to impress the boy’s family. Though...

You've got to admit that Lalit Modi 's a genius. Forget that he's been called a gambler, a swindler etc.., and also the fact that he didn't make it to the presidency of the Rajasthan Cricket Board. He sort of made it all up with the money and fame he earned from the latest IPL. "Apple introduced the concept of Windows. But Microsoft popularized the Windows concept." So says my class 11 computer textbook. " ICL recognised the potential of domestic cricket but it was IPL which commercialised it" (I said this!) ICL ( Indian Cricket League ) was the brain-child of Kapil Dev & co. - the rebels of BCCI (Board of Control of Cricket in India ). The twenty-twenty event managed to turn quite a few heads but the money it drew wasn't any big. The BCCI wouldn't tolerate all such competition and came up with a slew of stringent actions. Players who participated in the ICL were banned from playing international cricket by the ICC. As a result, ma...

It’s at times a scary term. General Knowledge (G.K) isn’t always about winning quizzes or getting through IAS exams or facing interviews, debates and group discussions. It’s very, oh so very essential for chit-chatting, a word very similar to the infamous gossiping. Everything, from the limited edition Mont Blanc Gandhi pens to Sania Mirza ’s latest beau, comes under G.K. Just think, without speaking about things other than our family or our society, how lifeless our conservations will be? What can two elderly, retired men talk about when they settle down at their neighborhood park bench? How can they keep conversing without finding fault, atleast once, with Mayawati ’s garland of money or Pranab Mukherjee ’s Budget (though they might get little of it)? I’m a G.Kish person. I adore facts, just the facts. I wouldn’t read a 19 page long story about how tribals are being ill-treated in our country word by word (I bet most of the readers don’t) I’d just see where, when...