Archive for June, 2007

Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

By Surya ⋅ June 11, 2007 ⋅ 6 comments

It had been a long time since I had finished a book in one sitting, until I read Mohsin Hamid’s recently published The Reluctant Fundamentalist. It would be easy to attribute it to the rather short length of the novel, but it is much more than that. The narrative makes you feel like part [...]

We are the good guys

By Surya ⋅ June 8, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

Chek out this nice piece in Salon by David Silverman - an honest article about a small typesetter in Iowa going out of business thanks to the jobs outsourced to India
I would love to agree with CNN’s Lou Dobbs that by exporting jobs to India, greedy American corporations are killing independent businesses. I could say [...]

Don’t we love Sarah Silverman!

By Surya ⋅ June 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Don’t we love Sarah Silverman!

Bluffmaster

By Surya ⋅ June 2, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

Bluffmaster, I was called
Placing the cards, that’s all it took
An ace when it should be a king
A queen for a nine
An eight for a ten
A puny two for the regal prince.
Keep a straight face
And no one will ever know
No blink of the eye
No twitch of the brow
No stutter in your voice
With the same rhythm of [...]

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