My Karapincha

Arvind Gupta, head of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s IT division / IT Cell, a key figure in installing the former Gujarat Chief Minister Narenda Modi as India's 15th (Current) Prime Minister, has been hired by the Sri Lankan Government, in steering & strengthening President Mahinda Rajapakse's social media strategy.  The nerve centre: Arvind Gupta inspecting his team in BJP's digital war room, located within the party's headquarters at Ashoka Road in Delhi. A team of 40 people, mostly professionals from IITs and IIMs, keeps a vigil on the latest voting trends and the mood of voters Arvind Gupta was a master-mind behind the PM Modi's Election machinery, especially its Social Media strategy and campaign execution. According to Indian media "If you see a shot of a pensive Modi in Varanasi — with a maze of buildings behind him — or looking natty in a blue linen kurta while leading foreign dignitaries, you probably have to thank Gupta for it." ...

We Sri Lankans celebrated yet another New Year! For Sri Lankans, the traditional new year dawns, as 'the sun' makes the move from Meena rasi to mesha rasi, giving fresh thoughts, ideas full of prosperity, to the well being of the society. This year too, having the above ‘prosperity’ part in the back of our minds, we Sri Lankans, all the Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Burghers and other national and religious communities were preparing themselves to celebrate ‘the new era’. Those who want to make political advantage, even from a single fart will obviously make this an opportunity to stressfully state, it is because of them, the Sri Lankans this time would celebrate the New Year in a country with no war and no terrorists. The week before the ‘avurudhu’ week, I myself visited several fashion chains to get myself equipped with 'new clothes'. There were thousands of people, who were seeking new clothes, and I found it difficult to pick the designs and colors which I was ex...

Yesterday, I got a chance to browse the web since the 6th of February. It was pretty irritating to stay away from the cyber network, BUT the exams and several subjects kept me out of the network. So, yesterday, I started browsing several news websites (as usual), to learn about the issues that had broken out within the past couple of days. I had four of my friends around me, using their computers in the computer lab. Suddenly, the guy who was sitting on my right hand side grabbed my right shoulder and dragged me into his monitor. It was this picture on the right (Pic. 1) that appears along with this post. In the next second, the other two surrounded us and comments were flowing despite their political view point. There was this one girl, who gave her insights about this picture. He said, "I think those are red colour dye on that man's neck"! Well I just turned to her, thinking she would tell something more, adding to her first comment. At that point I understood how the ...

The posters do spread a message! Well, that's the whole idea behind pasting those papers and covering every possible inch of others' walls. Before the 26th of last month, the goats, the cows and others who loved to taste the ink of the print were having a great time. They were not worried of 'eating a candidate' appearing on any wall. No police guy was interested in removing the animal from doing that 'deshadrohi' activity. Now that the things have come to light. In fact, the things are getting darker and darker. Not only because of today's attack that took place in front of the Aluthkade Magistrate court, injuring around six people. Following are three major incidents that took place since 26th of January 2010 up to date. HE the president left to Russia soon after attending the opening ceremony of the 'Deyata Kirula' exhibition in Pallekale, Kandy. He was awarded by a Honoris Causa Doctorate by the Peoples’ Friendship University (PFU), formally know...