Thoughts provoked

Ah! everyone's been talking bout d meter down thingie ! and we were having "some" "knowledge-able" discussions over the subprime crisis , and the global economic situation over a wide variety of tea and coffee flavours.... Common people and investors look at the ticker outside Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai. Gosh! I've been pretty much interested in economics, but d stocks - nevva ! except the blinking blue and red bars on d screens which I see flashing across looks pretty interesting though - guess I gotta dive into this sea of knowledge too hmmm ..... I remember listening to some Mr. Tamal Bandhopadhyay (bureau chief, Mumbai HT-Mint) who was trying to calm down panicky people in that time of crisis ( ummm .. d last I remember about this bandwagon was the time when some Harshad Mehta came into news ....) and discussing about the fall starting around Dec 26, 2007 and taking the nose dive plunge right on Jan 10, 2008 and after following the Ame

Slumdog Millionaire, the British-made film set in Mumbai which has become this year's word-of-mouth hit, continued its unstoppable rise. Danny Boyle's rags-to-riches flick, which is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize nominated novel Q and A by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup , and has already won four Golden Globes earlier t his month, recently had its Indian premiere in Mumbai. It is one of five films in contention for best picture. The others are The Reader; Milk, the true story of America's first openly gay politician; Frost/Nixon, the dramatisation of Sir David Frost's televised showdown with former US President Richard Nixon; and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a fantasy starring Brad Pitt as a man who ages backwards, which leads the race with 13 nominations. Each of the films has a best director nomination. "To win so many nominations is unbelievable and for two Indians to be in the nominations