tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786Sat, 05 Oct 2024 02:02:48 +0000soceityPoliticsNewsHumourSatireFeminismRecessionScience and Technologycolonialismliterary reviewhttp://hutom.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)Blogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-4117455749141573163Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:14:00 +00002015-07-21T16:45:15.680+02:00HumoursoceityIt's summer again and Stockholm roads are infested with enthusiastic cyclists. Of course it's clean, green and healthy mode of transportation and I'm all for it; but that doesn't necessarily mean that bikers are beyond traffic rules though, does it? As soon as people ride on their bikes I think they feel uplifted to a higher moral grounds and traffic rules are only for mere mortals! It http://hutom.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-divine-right.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-6550396883269400497Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:20:00 +00002015-07-22T09:58:08.143+02:00NewsPoliticsRecessionsoceityWhen the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras called for a referendum to allow his people to have a say on the atrocious measures of austerity, I was truly mesmerized. And I felt almost ecstatic when the Greek population gave an overwhelming OXI against all kinds of blackmailing and bullying from Brussels. Thought Greece just gave the world a repeat course on democracy after 3000 years. But howhttp://hutom.blogspot.com/2015/07/let-it-go.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-5407560449737088321Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:28:00 +00002015-07-14T12:27:22.744+02:00Feminismsoceity Just read an article on how the inner "nesting" tendency is the biggest obstacle in women's true empowerment. Written by a woman, known broadly as a feminist, surprisingly ranted on how women "happily" give up career to focus on family and kids.  It lamented the fact that women PhD are actually "leaking pipe" of knowledge as a large number of them don't pursue their subjects http://hutom.blogspot.com/2015/03/not-in-x-chromosome.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-6456994326920617532Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:29:00 +00002014-07-22T13:29:00.176+02:00Science and Technologysoceity No ones knows who invented the wheel...but we always try not to re-invent it! Somebody in ancient China was clever enough to invent the printing machine while another discovered the formula for gun powder. But they didn't file any patent for that!. Some brilliant mathematician in India came up with the idea of using zero and built the foundation of mathematics; yet s/he fell short of http://hutom.blogspot.com/2014/07/its-collaboration-not-competetion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-6863198103756043181Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:10:00 +00002014-07-15T14:42:38.264+02:00FeminismNewsPoliticssoceityIt was such such an refreshing site to see Dilma Rousseff and Angela Merkel in the VIP box of World Cup final! No, I'm not a fan of either of them. But at least they brought some balance to the otherwise hopelessly male dominant gala fest of power, money and muscle! From players, to coaches, support stuffs, FIFA officials, even the vast majority of reporters and photographers....it was such an http://hutom.blogspot.com/2014/07/fair-play.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-7857663549049640221Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:32:00 +00002013-08-13T08:05:50.033+02:00NewsPoliticssoceityWho would have imagined that Vladimir Putin would look better at least in one single human rights issue, than the Nobel peace prize winner Brack Obama! Yes we all know that Putin is no saint, has many skeletons in his cupboard and has his own axe to grind in this whole saga of asylum to Snowden. Yet he deserves some respect as the only one having the guts to stand firm against the http://hutom.blogspot.com/2013/08/we-people.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-6147998663952121404Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:48:00 +00002013-04-17T13:40:05.019+02:00FeminismsoceityThe Indian government finally got into action after the double whammy of a massive domestic protest together with a surmounting international pressure after the Delhi gang rape. However, it is still not convincing how much of it were triggered by the urge to "stop the bad press" as opposed to an honest intention to protect it's women! Otherwise how do you interpret the trial of onehttp://hutom.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-different-yardstick.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-4379717025461151258Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:00:00 +00002012-11-12T12:38:04.533+01:00HumourSatireScience and TechnologyJust came back from (yet another) project "postmortem" on what went wrong and  I can't think of anything more apt than the picture bellow: (I had seen an earlier version a few years back...but seems it had improved over the time...surely from the contributions of some witty volunteers!) You'll really have to appreciate the baby-like innocence and naivity of some people: http://hutom.blogspot.com/2012/10/packet-loss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-2728138638832338308Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:26:00 +00002012-10-19T14:27:54.004+02:00FeminismsoceityI met J- in a summer school in Denmark. She is doing her masters in physics in a university in Finland. When I casually asked her what brought her there, little did I expect the answer: it's the women-friendly soceity in Finland which prompted her to chose the place! Now this is rather unusual. I have heard people opting to go for a post graduation abroad for brand names (Harvard, Yale or http://hutom.blogspot.com/2012/10/scarred.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-5464486914981961052Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:05:00 +00002012-08-07T13:10:47.726+02:00NewsLosing crown is a horrible experience and there is barely anybody who can take it gracefully...be it a person or a country. The reigning supremo of the present world, is just going through this, and Boy, the process is long and painful! So no wonder the reactions are so pathetic at times; like US coach's reaction to the spectacular gold wining performance from the Chinese http://hutom.blogspot.com/2012/08/bad-loser.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-8988052221131453355Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:12:00 +00002012-08-15T14:02:19.626+02:00NewsScience and TechnologySo Higgs boson has been found (well 'almost'; as The Guardian put it so elegantly...."it's a definite may be!").  Congratulations, in which scientific journal is the result published? Oops no where...not even submitted yet! That's strange. Really, really starnge. A press conference of this magnitude, coverage in main stream media comparable to that of World Cup Football, and no http://hutom.blogspot.com/2012/08/spicy-science.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-4840644030890502506Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:06:00 +00002012-08-07T13:10:47.724+02:00HumourNewssoceityIt's simply unbelievable...roads in Stockholm are suddenly deserted. The stretch from my office in Kista to home where the traffic normally crawls during rush hours now goes past in a jiffy. Weekend shopping has also has gone through a phase change; not only I can park my car at the nearest row, but I can chose between, say, a sunny or an under-the-shed spot! The isles in the super markets are http://hutom.blogspot.com/2012/07/summer-slumber.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-1286567779570475577Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:24:00 +00002012-07-04T10:53:56.210+02:00PoliticsRecessionsoceityAre the welfare states on the verge of collapse? No matter how I might dislike it, present signs increasingly point towards that. The concept of sharing and caring, which emerged from the runis of world war II, when people understood the importance of a collaborative soceity in a hard way, seems to be easily forgotten within just sixty years. The hurricane of biggest world warhttp://hutom.blogspot.com/2012/07/begining-of-end.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-5618649112796720867Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:26:00 +00002013-04-16T22:20:26.498+02:00HumourScience and Technologysoceity"Where is M-"? asked a visibly puzzled T-, rushing into my office. I had to say I had no idea and even though we share the same office I do not actually track his minute by minute whereabouts. "Well, his skype status says he is in office and this is his office isn't it"? grumbled T-. "Last time I checked it was, indeed", said I. "Well, he must be in quantum mechanical world then", T- http://hutom.blogspot.com/2012/06/wave-particleand-24th-floor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-2512513053389854204Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:18:00 +00002012-10-04T09:56:12.469+02:00FeminismsoceitySweden is a country with great gender equality. Nearly half of it's members of parliament are women (without any quota). Swedish men are perhaps the best in world when it comes to taking their fair share of household chores and child care. The salary gaps between genders (even though it exists) is among the lowest in the world. Perhaps still short of ideal world, but definitely the best in this http://hutom.blogspot.com/2012/04/feminist-utopia-not-quite.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-6234950055626806235Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:04:00 +00002012-03-01T13:30:59.801+01:00PoliticsSatiresoceityTwo hundred years after the French revolution, in the Land of "Liberté, égalité, fraternité", a statue modeled on French first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy is to be erected in Paris suburb of Nogent-sur-Marne, part funded by tax payers' money. To add insult to the injury, Bruni-Sarkozy, who probably never have done a single day's of honest work for a living supposed to represent "plumassière" http://hutom.blogspot.com/2012/03/versailles-never-ends.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-1533500208650603071Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:49:00 +00002012-03-01T13:31:16.459+01:00PoliticsRecessionsoceityBarak Obama is pitching hard to stop, or at least halt, the massive outsourcing by US companies to other countries (to India, mainly). It was always there in his political agenda and with tough November Senate elections in sight, he has sharpened his attack on outsurcing in an attempt to woo the recession trodden Americans. Without even considering the typical American http://hutom.blogspot.com/2010/10/outsourcing-insight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-81828035594921937Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:49:00 +00002012-07-03T10:46:52.574+02:00Humour I couldn't believe my eyes; is this real, or am I just hallucinating? After almost a decade long absence, is it really back? Will I be able to satisfy such a basic need of life now in a way I want? Will I be finally able to get rid of all those discomfort, shame and dissatisfaction caused by its absence? I had to check. So I went closer, checked the inside information, touched it, felt it, http://hutom.blogspot.com/2010/09/yes-its-back-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-843789553563100129Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:39:00 +00002010-09-23T16:49:22.108+02:00NewsPoliticsSatireThe Swedish general election was held yesterday. The result is out now. And for the first time in history a far-right, racist party called Swedish Democrats entered into the parliament. They have own 20 odd seats in the house of 349 seats; but that's enough to influence the formation of government as both the rulling Alliance (with 172 seats) and the opposition Red-Green coalition (with 157 http://hutom.blogspot.com/2010/09/plague-in-all-your-houses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-235250166757866752Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:08:00 +00002010-08-20T14:20:03.557+02:00NewsPoliticssoceityAfter 26 years of painful wait, the final verdict has been delivered this year for the Bhopal Gas Tragedy case. And what was the verdict? Only 8 convicted for a maximum of 2 years in jail, for which they were granted bail immediately. And this is for the gross negligence and greed which caused thousands on deaths, tens of thousands of injuries and birth defects. Till date, children are http://hutom.blogspot.com/2010/08/crime-and-punishment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-4534230263949599390Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:28:00 +00002012-04-09T15:56:41.635+02:00NewsSatiresoceity In the last couple of months, a number of articles have been published in both electronic and print media, regarding the  statictics of cyclists' death in London last year. No, they were not blaming the London traffic, the Bendy buses or the reckless drivers; Instead they were pointing out to the fact that out of 13 cyclists died in road accidents last year, 10 were women. The articles http://hutom.blogspot.com/2010/08/psedoscience.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-8136572921161723006Wed, 26 May 2010 06:15:00 +00002010-08-05T11:28:59.551+02:00PoliticsWhat is the opposite of "Conservative" ? "Liberal", most people would answer. I thought so too, until a few days ago. But now I am a bit confused after the formation of new coalition in Britain. How on earth a Liberal party can form a coalition with the Conservative party? Aren't they supposed to be poles apart, as their respective names suggest? It seems not; Nick Clegg is a happy deputy of http://hutom.blogspot.com/2010/05/unholy-matrimony.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-5597111377690919180Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:21:00 +00002010-08-09T16:15:10.429+02:00HumoursoceityIt is almost three months now that I am living in Stockholm. Though I do not pretend to know Swedish, I have stumbled upon a few Swedish words which frankly have rendered me speechless. I did not have to dig hard to look for these words; if you stay in Sweden for a few days, you would definitely encounter them. I am not a prude by any standard, but the frequent appearance of the words like "Brahttp://hutom.blogspot.com/2010/04/linguistic-faux-pas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-4160420523359435826Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:11:00 +00002010-04-23T09:54:40.239+02:00PoliticsI thought of writing a blog about the much needed banking reform, so that the taxpayers in future are protected against footing astronomical bills of Great Bailout for the irresponsible and reckless business of the greedy bankers. But then this speech of Barak Obama has saved me the trouble; he said the exact things I wanted to say and unsurprisingly in a much better way. So, I decided to http://hutom.blogspot.com/2010/04/much-needed-reform.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872291626546853786.post-4896622455676745690Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:17:00 +00002010-04-20T22:58:10.550+02:00soceityAfter a week of near closure of all European air space for last 5 days, planes have started flying again in the European sky. It still not normal service, but they will get there soon. And what made this transition from near total closure to near full opening of air space ? Did the volcano in Iceland suddenly ceased all its recent activities and went back snoozing again? Or did the ash went http://hutom.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-fly-or-not-to-fly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)4