Jaane kahan gaye voh din! I bet old foggies in 1960s were also bemoaning the death of music in Indian films at that time.. ``Hamare zamane main Saigal kya gaata tha. Ye Barman warman kaun hai bhai?``

Vanity is My Favorite Sin Never pay any attention to any interactors who do not use their full name and instead use meaningless or abbreviated terms or just (real or made-up) initials!!!

By that token, you should ignore yourself. There! I just told you the secret of a blissful life !

Vanity is My Favorite Sin A note to the author -

This is a good piece, I like the social comments it makes. However, it needs some work. A topic like this can be handled in two ways. One, you can write a long and serious article on people`s tendency to be pompous and how it negatively affects the society, how the poor are getting poorer while the reach are getting richer, etc. However, that would be a pretty boring piece. Also, it has been done.

Instead, you can follow the comedic angle of people flaunting their _inherited_ wealth and feeling superior solely because they happen to have a rich uncle / aunt / grandmother etc. That can be riotously funny and very biting satire.

Your piece, dear author, falls somewhere in between. IMO, you started out trying to write a satire, but then lost your way somewhere trying to be rather serious. This is a pitfall you should try to avoid next time. You do write well, only you need to organize the thought process a little better.

Cheers and good luck for your next literary venture!

Vanity is My Favorite Sin A word to Nadia Zehra -
How much money do YOU have to pay to chowk-staff in order to get your ``english`` interacts published?

You say in #9 ``I still hold my grounds of pointing the loop-holes and the composure it is badly lacking and the worn out norms it is blindly stressing.``

I did not notice you pointing out any loopholes in the article. Nor do you explain what ``norms`` you think the article is ``blindly`` stressing. All you did was ask a snarky question, and when someone challenged you, you tried to wiggle your way out of explaining your post. Even in #9, where you do have the opportunity to explain your criticism, you did not. Instead you launched into a long-winded and incoherent defense of Islamabad.

If I feel sufficiently bored, I will analyse your #9 line by line and prove what a shitty writer you are.

The SAT Scam dont they video tape the whole exam? they do in India

Dusk This article and the responses to it remind me of the legendary writer of chowk unplugged ``Salim Chauhan``

Dusk This whole piece is so much mumbo-jumbo and little else.