Monday, March 28, 2011

The Visa Interview

Went to New Delhi for the H1 interview with wife.Went quite smooth , though had a scare since saw two rejections just before me ..
Questions asked 
  1. Where are you going ? - this was asked to my wife.
  2.  Why are you going ? Job desc ?
  3.  How long are you in IBM ?
  4.  What is your designation IBM ?
All in all a cool experience , :-)
Need to collect the passport tommo from VFS .


Saturday, March 26, 2011

The Bhutto Murder Trail - a review

Name of The Book : The Bhutto Murder Trail From Waziristan to GHQ
Author : Amir Mir
Publisher : Tranqebar
ISBN :9789380658612
my rating : 3/10


Actually , the book was picked up by my wife from indiaplaza.in and they did deliver in time and at a good discount .( must add I am seeing delays from the same place for a different book)
Picked it up with lots of expectations and book does attempt to 'uncover' some mysteries...it  talks about the controversies about the actual cause of death , the Govt view , the media , the PPP's .....and the reasons behind these views. 
Benazir's courage and conviction on the face of threats is wow. Not sure how such people keep themselves driven ...
The power of 'establishment' is clearly mentioned here and the helplessness of the various democratically elected governments. Infact there have not been any concrete progress wven with PPP in power
But after a point the author gets repetitive and no new information seems to come out.
All in all : I would think there are more investigative books on the topic ( yet to check any one ) if readers of this know of any nice books on the topic please let me know


And now -- Todays paper says India to invite Pak army chief, and members of ISI for the watching the Indo-Pak quarterfinal match in Mohali. Makes sense?