Mental Floss http://www.navinharish.org/blog/ Mental Floss is the life of a communication designer Navin Harish. Here you can read articles written by me and daily observations of this world. en-us navinh@gmail.com 2005-07-12T11:59:23+05:30 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Swine Flu - a real threat or an opportunity for pharma companies? http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2009/8/swine-flu.html <img src="http://www.picturejockey.com/pblog/2008/3/images/injection_02.jpg"> The swine flue tablets manufacturing co. is based at USA and its stock for India is unsold for last two-three years and the expiry date for the medicines is approaching very fast, so how about creating a little scare to push the sales?

Conspiray theorist come up with strangest of things and they have in past claimed how pharma companies release viruses to sell vaccines. Mission Impossible -II is about the same thing. I got the following mail from a friend of mine. I don't know how correct the facts are but they definitely are worth a read so here they are.

]]> http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2009/8/swine-flu.html blog Mental Floss Blog Navin Harish 2009-08-27T12:28:00+05:30 Would you pass the shoe, please? http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2009/4/shoe-attack.html <img src="http://www.picturejockey.com/pblog/2009/4/t/indian-currency.jpg"> Zaidi was thrown in jail for 3 years for chucking a shoe at Bush and Jarnail Singh became a instant celebrity by doing the same thing.

I posted a picture of currency notes on Picturejockey and Prashant suggested that we should have a competition to replace Gandhi as well and he has a point. 8-10 years ago the face of Gandhi was only on the 500 rupee note but now it is on every note, from 5 bucks to a grand, there are seven notes and his picture is on every one of them. Don't we have any other leader worthwhile of featuring on a note? It is not only about the the currency notes, we find it hard to find anyone of substance in a population of more than a billion.

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]]> http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2009/4/shoe-attack.html blog Mental Floss Blog Navin Harish 2009-04-10T17:25:00+05:30 Singh is King? Mabe, but who is the kingmaker? http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2009/4/manmohan-singh.html <img src="http://www.picturejockey.com/pblog/2009/4/images/sonia-gandhi.jpg"> The job of a leader of a country requires expertise in a lot of fields that are not humanly possible in a single person. A head of state has to rely on experts in various fields to carry out his or her job

Manmohan Singh may have been the most educated, intelligent and the smartest prime minister we ever had and may be the least powerful as well. No one credits him for any of his accomplishments and he is never seen as the real leader. The real leader in Sonai Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi will step aside when Rahul Gandhi is ready to stake his claim on the primeministership and till then we will have "temp" prime ministers like Manmohan Singh, something like Anil Kumble as the test captain till M S Dhoni was ready for it.

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]]> http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2009/1/barack_obama.html blog Mental Floss Blog Navin Harish 2009-01-22T13:08:00+05:30 Reservation - shaking our foundation http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/reservation.html <img src="http://www.picturejockey.com/pblog/2007/10/images/manu_doctor.jpg" >Being a doctor is not child play
If a life depends on it, the person to be trusted is the one who is the best, not the one who became a doc because of reservation.
Photograph : Picturejockey

Reservation is against the rule of natural selection. I magine if a herd of buffaloes or a pride of lions selects its leader like this. This will lead to the extinction of group.

The government has asked for reservation in jobs for locals. A local is a person who has spent more than 15 years in this state. Currently the reservation is mostly in manufacturing and blue collar jobs and the service industry has been spared. The question is till when? Best way do implement an unpopular policy is by announcing it so people are outraged.

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]]> http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/reservation.html blog Mental Floss Blog Navin Harish 2008-11-21T13:08:00+05:30 Splitting the Indian atom http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/splitting_india.html <img src="http://www.picturejockey.com/pblog/2006/5/images/dont_walk.jpg" >Photograph : Picturejockey

Any political leader with a microphone is trying to get his share of the division, whether it is Mayawati dividing the dalits from the rest of the nation or whether it is Raj Thackery who is dividing them as Marathis and non marathis.

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]]> http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/splitting_india.html blog Mental Floss 2008-11-14T11:59:00+05:30 I am too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my nightie, toooo sexy for my boxer shorts http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/toosexy.html <img src="http://www.picturejockey.com/pblog/2005/6/images/love_daddy.jpg" width="337" height="253" >Manu's shorts saying I love my Daddy.
Photograph : Picturejockey

The other thing that initially shocked me but now looks natural is the women in their night gowns. You may say that it is hardly shocking. Well, it is shocking if the woman in the nightgown is buying vegetables, talking a walk in the morning or traveling in train. In Bombay I found that a nightgown is a completely acceptable dress for many places other than a bed room...

]]> http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/toosexy.html blog Mental Floss 2008-11-12T12:29:00+05:30 Is it finally time to be nice to Anil Kumble? http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/anil_kumble.html “Thinking about, he created a form of bowling that didn't exist before and how good it was is proved by the number of wickets he has taken and yet all we saw was that he can't spin the ball like Shane Warne.”

Cricket may be a glorified sport in India but there is one cricketer who has not found anything glamourous about it.That man is Anil Kumble. I am not very good with facts but I don't remember any captain retiring mid series and by not playing the Nagpur test, Kumble has done just that...

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