Author: hemal
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The Two Germans who championed F1
Two of the most famous champions in F1 are Germans. And that speaks something about Germany. Both drivers dominated the world of Formula1 but never with a German teams. But outside of F1, some of the world’s best cars are also made by Germans. While Michael achieved his record of 7 championships of which 5…
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My First ever Xtreme Drive: Safari Storme
Call it the Call of Duty or Meeting a Beast. You can pick one, but both, I did with pleasure. The new IndiBlogger meet in Mumbai had something never seen or experienced before at any previous meets. As with every IndiMeets, I set off on my trusted and abused TVS Wego from Dombivali to Andheri…
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Tracking Mr. Santa Claus – List of all places he went in 2012
Updated on an hourly basis (till I sleep :P) Ever since I knew that Google teamed up with NORAD to come up with an online tracker, I wanted to see it. But it always has happened I have missed it. However this time, I had someone special remind me about it. The program began on…
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Tracking Santa: Combined List of Countries
Since I was tracking Santa’s path through the world using Google Santa Tracker, I had this data collected in an excel sheet and in a true corporate style, I created Pivot table / Charts using the data to bring to you an interesting information. This post has been tagged to show below my current post,…
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Attitude towards women and men in India
I have to agree to what Karan Thapar says in today’s HT Mumbai edition. The issue and all the protests are to seek justice is a phenomenal feat, but the main point is its men who rape. And because the teaching at home is not in the right direction. A boy is always seen superior…
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The effects and ill-effects of the protests over rape in Delhi
Wake up India! She is dead. The title for todays HT is to the point. And hell yes, we all have to be awaken to what is happening. Its not only Delhi, the decorated rape capital of Independent India, and also the Capital of Republic of India. For one, the whole agenda of protests is…
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Why my family stopped giving alms
Being emotional at heart many a times has its own consequences. Such are people in my family, having seen our own worse times, it does not take us longer than a second to feel for someone else in dire situations. Especially when other person seeking help has a kid tucked to the waist. Since last…
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Aviation woes
Having followed two of country’s biggest aviation debacles of this decade, I have started accepting the fact that they may not last long. Of the two, Kingfisher is already in doldrums and I have already covered it many a times on my blog. And the other one is Air India. Why Air India now? Because…
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Political Slug Fest 2012
Welcome to Political Slug Fest 2012! Its a Political Slug Fest approaching and every politician is making his or her presence felt. After all, its the 2014 elections approaching. I started wondering why so early? We are yet to live through 2013, and are not even sure if we will live through this year according…