Posted by: Jolvin on: September 10, 2009
The Wikipedia states an Ale to be “Ale is a type of beer brewed from malted barley using a top-fermenting brewers’ yeast. This yeast ferments the beer quickly, giving it a sweet, full bodied and fruity taste. Most ales contain hops, which impart a bitter herbal flavour that helps to balance the sweetness of the [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: August 28, 2009
Some banner designers have a novel way of ensuring their business suffers. Look at the banner of the Congress Party above.
What do you see?
Struggling are you?
Well for one it has a welcome address in all the top 5 languages spoken in the city of Mumbai.
Two, it has the top brass of the Congress across India [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: December 6, 2008
Oh my great state what has become of thou!
Thy politicians are fighting o’er pohe and pav.
To each it’s the food of the soil
Yet it’s all a clever political foil
Oh my great state what has become of thou!
Thy politicians are fighting o’er pohe and pav.
They beef up their security
While our lives are full of anxiety
Oh my [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: December 1, 2008
Someone took moral responsibility
Someone listened to his conscience
Someone was put under pressure
They all quit
I wonder who will clean up the mess – or will that person quit too?
Posted by: Jolvin on: November 29, 2008
It’s finally over.
Nearly 60 hours of an ordeal that will go down in the history of our country as one of the most trying. A monument left in shambles, more than 160 casualties, close to 400 injured, souls scarred.
As I watched the last encounter taking place glued to my television mixed emotions prevailed, happiness that [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: November 28, 2008
While our state politicians were busy fighting over pohe and pav, vociferously defending the terror attacks in Malegaon and blaming the ATS (Anti Terrorist Squad) as partisan, they gave a red carpet welcome to approx. 26 militants to hold the financial capital to ransom. And this time it was not some coward militants who planted [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: November 19, 2008
It’s more than a month and a half since my last post. I’m at a loss of mutterings. Actually not – there have been many mutterings that came and went – unfortunately never got pressed as words. Sad!
Keeping a blog alive needs more than just mutterings – it needs the willingness to spend that quality [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: October 3, 2008
Dear Honorable Mr. AR
I’m so stressed the minute I leave the comforts of my home these days. I’m sure I’ll have a nervous breakdown soon as I find people staring at me as though I’m some alien or criminal that people have been wanting to nail down. I don’t know what’s the cash award on [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: August 6, 2008
Today Atul Sabnis’s blog Gaizabonts got hacked into. For all his well wishers he has moved to http://selaphor.wordpress.com.
I wish he is able to get back all his creative work of more than 5 years back at the earliest.
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