Lists, lists, lists. Who doesn't love lists? David Wallechinsky does, so do terrorist outfits, and so do we. So, we spend time compiling lists of things that ought to be, ought not to be, ought not to be or not to be that is the question.
It has proved one of the more popular sections on the website, we get as many as a dozen visitors here every year. But then on with the show, or A List Of 10 Lists:
At the beginning of the year, the big question was: Will Abhishek Bachchan manage to emulate Hrithik Roshan, let alone his dad (Abhishek's, not Hrithik's). But some people (at least three in Delhi), were also discussing the possibility of amendments to the Indian Constitution. We thought that a great idea and thereby we presented our version of 10 changes in the Constitution we need
After the constitutional, we went on for some more exercise of the Governmental type. After all, Yashwant Sinha was to present another Budget and could we allow that opportunity to put in our two bits (also tax-exempteble) in. So, we put our team of economists are work and they came up with 10 innovative Budget proposals for the country.
Thereafter, for quite some time we observed the national hysteria as Bill Clinton toured the country. However, at the end of it all, we thought that his iterinary had not been imaginative enough. Therefore, given our very diplomatic nature, we put forth our alternate schedule in 5 places Bill should've gone.
The biggest story of the millennium was upon us. Of course, it has been a pretty short millennium so far, in fact, some would argue, it's been so short that it won't even begin till January I, 2001. But, of course, as any self-respecting couch potato would realise, we're talking of the match fixing scandal. And, given our record of public service, we put togethe our handy 10 questions you've always wanted to ask about match fixing but were afraid of the answers.
Similar answers may also be found in our 10 rules for a Bollywood blockbuster.
Even as preparations to take the Indian contingent (including a handful of athletes) to the Sydney Olympics commenced, we got proactive. This is all so unfair, we thought. After all you've got competitions in athletics, football, swimming, even synchronised diving, but how can you expect Indians to get results in any of these events when their specialities have been cruelly omitted from Olympic after Olympic. We thus put forward our manifesto: 10 Olympic events that should be introduced.
Reverting to the public service mode, we started our Beginners Guide series to surviving major Indian cities without going insane or dead. We have thus far covered New Delhi, Calcutta and Chennai. We hoping to resume the series as soon as we locate writers in the remaining cities who are still somewhat coherent.
And, then, came the biggie. Yes, yes, KBC, that's birthed SDCK, GCPK, etc, etc. Amitabh is back and the glorified cashier. We decided that we should so something for those unfortunates who'd spent hours trying to call in to the show's lines but only had worn knuckles to show for their effort and thus, came up with 10 other ways to make money off KBC. Sticking to the TV theme, later we also presented 10 game shows for Indian TV.
Then we also tackled two of the most irritating things going around. Watching the Indian cricket team play or more exposes in the l'affaire match fixing or getting connected to the 'Net without chewing off your mouse in frustration, as we looked into the worlds of cricket and the WWW.