One hears no end of talk about scams — from finance to fodder — and always presumes that its something that happens to other people and involves humongous sums of money. But of late I have become interested, as a consumer and concerned citizen, about a myriad of innocuous schemes that are probably not illegal, […]

The marketing director of Nescafe manages to arrange a meeting with the Pope at the Vatican. After receiving the papal blessing, the Nescafe official whispers,’ Your Eminence, I have some business to discuss. We at Nescafe have an offer for you. Nescafe is prepared to donate $100 million to the church if you change the […]

This was sent in by my super-cool niece Tarini from Singapore 🙂 It’s 3 o’clock on a hot summer afternoon…   A duck waddles into my neighbourhood convenience store. Looks around. The store clerk, a tough Iranian guy who insists on being called Tosh, does a double take and gapes speechless at the sight of […]

Statutory warning: Do not take this post seriously! Sheryl Crow has a cool song called My Favourite Mistake — believe it or not, its about her brief affair with Eric Clapton! Well, my ownfavourite mistake has always been procrastination — why do today what you can put off till tomorrow! Anyways, I sprang out of […]

Yep its today — Poila Boishakh or the first day of Vaishakh, so Shubho Nobo Borsho to you all! Warm regards, Tina and Vikram Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Hello everyone You might have noticed that the blog url has now changed to http://www.vikramhazra.com/ so please make the necessary changes in your favourites/blogrolls etc 🙂 Hopefully this will enable me to upload some nice music and videos for you 🙂 My Flickr photostream is also ready and just waiting for me to upload my […]