Hey folks,
I'd taken a resolution to write one blog post a day, starting with yesterday. But then, resolutions are meant to be broken. Keeping with that age old tradition of taking a resolution and giving up the first day itself, I've managed to skip yesterday's post.
I have a couple of things to talk about, for today. All you idealists, please skip the next 2 paragraphs. The first of the two things would be how people manage to fake excitement and jubilance just like that. The who's who at the top of India's bureaucracy would've surely known the result of yesterday's Ind vs Pak game right after India got into the semi-finals. There was no way India could lose to Pakistan in a World Cup, in India, and get knocked out of the tournament while Pakistan stayed on to play in the Final match in Mumbai itself!
Now, having known the result already, I was pretty surprised by the seeming-genuineness of the excitement on the faces of people like Sharad Pawar, Shashank Manohar, Niranjan Shah, Sonia & Rahul, Manmohan and Gilani (to name a few). I'd love to learn how they do it so I could pretend to look surprised when I win some new account or when I lose an existing account. 
But honestly, Mannenna, Vehppenna, Velakkenna; Pakistan thothu ponaa yenakkennaa!
The second thing is about a new 'artisan-driven India-specific marketplace portal' called Shopo. They've been creating a bit of stir with the 'teaser' video et al. Yesterday, they've launched a photo contest on social media through this video. All you photographer dudes, dig up your archives and see if you can send in some appropriate pictures you would've clicked! At a time when everyone's jumping into the 'group-buying-portal' bandwagon, here comes a little startup that's completely new to the Indian cyber-space. Oh, and, this isn't a sponsored post or anything! I'm just writing because I know the lady behind the idea! 
Yours Clumsily,
uleadin
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