Niedhie
Mar 5, 2009
Emergency service exercise
I was watching BBC the other day and found out about the concept of emergency service exercise. The report talked about a simulation of a...
Niedhie
Dec 20, 2008
The Young Revolution
I have been following the debate that has followed the Mumbai blasts in the country. A lot has been said about the inefficiency of the...
Niedhie
Dec 12, 2008
Personal Inflation Calculator
We are in an era of computing. 80% of my time in office goes into computing and 20% into thinking. The 80% I spend into computing I am...
Niedhie
Dec 5, 2008
Mumbai – I feel for you
I can’t think anything other than the Mumbai blasts. Each time I sit down to write, I think of the huge mockery on Indian resilience that...
Niedhie
Dec 3, 2008
Jaago
Utho Bharat, jaago dosto, Kis baat ka intezaar hai – Yudh ki bigul bazi dekho, Hamari vinamrata par kara prahar hai. Sahanshilta ki seema...
Niedhie
Nov 28, 2008
Parinaam kya?
Ro raha hai dil, Ankhen nam hai, Kya sthiti hai duniya ki, Aatank mein fase hum hai. Ek jut hona hoga hume, Yeh ek kathin yuddh hai,...
Niedhie
Nov 24, 2008
The new face* of woman
*Dedicated to the unknown face I saw yesterday in London Underground Like any other thousands of commuters on London tube on a weekend, I...
Niedhie
Nov 14, 2008
The voice – do we really need it?
I have been thinking since some time that I have to write about the whole Raj Thakerey drama that has recently started. Just today when I...
Niedhie
Oct 18, 2008
Credit crunch jokes*
What’s the definition of optimism? A banker who irons five shirts on a Sunday. City trader: “It’s worse than a divorce. I’ve lost half of...
Niedhie
Sep 26, 2008
Whose skin are you in?
Dear all, This is a very special message to all of you, a cause which I care about. I am a proud vegetarian and feel very happy about the...
Niedhie
Sep 17, 2008
Witnessing history
The events of the past few days convince me that we are witnessing history. The demise of Lehman Brothers, Wall Street’s fourth largest...
Niedhie
Sep 14, 2008
Blasts again
Can I please move on from writing blogposts about blasts? I had been really caught up with so many things in life, and just when I...
Niedhie
Jul 29, 2008
Blasts, Inflation, N-deal
The title suggests the way I would sum up the current social, economic and political situation in India. Notable political developments...
Niedhie
Feb 24, 2008
Being positive
I read two articles in today’s Hindustan Times- one is called “The Bhaiyya Effect” by Vir Sanghvi and the other “Bonds that won’t break”...
Niedhie
Feb 2, 2008
Revive BJP
I am not a political commentator, so I claim of no expertise in political analysis. I have not cast my vote in any of the elections and...
Niedhie
Jan 12, 2008
The religion that Hinduism is
I am no prophet, I am no expert in religion, I am a normal Hindu who believes in what she has understood in all these years. Whatever I...
Niedhie
Aug 31, 2007
An awakening
I have been following the US market crashdown. A close friend of mine informed me a few days back that her brother is now jobless due to...
Niedhie
Jul 6, 2007
Research, does it still pull?
I am a research scholar in Mathematics and thought of writing a piece on the decline that research in India is facing. To my sadist...
Niedhie
Jun 27, 2007
I am desi… or am I really?
Last night while chatting with an old school friend I ran into the risk of a debate with him. It has left me thoughtful and so I thought...
Niedhie
May 27, 2007
Art, the new picture
I have been going to an Art school since the age of six years. It used to be every Sunday that my drawing teacher used to come to our...
