The Shishir Kumar Website

Feb 23, 2011

THE 13 MILLION DOLLAR SALE of the domain name Sex.com last year has taken the seedy website name into the Guinness Book of World Records as the “most expensive Internet address domain name”. Unless the domain name, the sale of which was orchestrated by domain seller Sedo, was planning to jump over a line a double decker buses, this was probably...

Jan 30, 2011

Let’s say a guy named Roger is attracted to a woman named Elaine. He asks her out to a movie; she accepts; they have a pretty good time. A few nights later he asks her out to dinner, and again they enjoy themselves. They continue to see each other regularly, and after a while neither one of them is seeing anybody else. And then, one evening when...

Nov 17, 2010

Queen Mary I, the monarch of England and Ireland since 1553, dies and is succeeded by her 25-year-old half-sister, Elizabeth. The two half-sisters, both daughters of King Henry VIII, had a stormy relationship during Mary’s five-year reign. Mary, who was brought up as a Catholic, enacted pro-Catholic legislation and made efforts to restore the pope to...

Apr 22, 2010

The other evening my father called me up unexpectedly and asked “How are you?” in a worried accent. Few live bombs were found a couple of days back in the city, but fortunately they were diffused before any upset. My team had lost the semi-final match and was out of the IPL tournament. It had rained heavily in the evening. Apart for all these,...

Recently I was reading a report on the rise of social networking giant Facebook in India and how it can eventually surpass the popular Orkut just by its sheer size. The news is a bit surprising, especially if you consider the fact that Brazil and India have been considered as two of the most popular markets of Orkut for years. Let’s start analyzing from our...