“No web would come out if you bend your wrists and no you cannot climb walls or jump from building to building even though you are wearing a spider-man dress and a mask” said my friend to her 5 year old kid. Oh he was heartbroken and in tears, it was hard for him to … Continue reading »
Author Archives: Sharad Bapat
Husbands vs Anniversaries
India achieved freedom on 15th August 1947, but how many of us remember the date when it became slave under British Raj, let alone remembering the date, how many of us celebrate the occasion we lost our independence? Buy gifts for Englishmen who ruled us? Sounds crazy, right? Why would one remember such date? Then … Continue reading »
Book Review: Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul At work
I am a vegetarian so it was a tough ask to review a book titled “Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul at Work”, but then I guess I would eat/drink chicken soup if offered for free, and since I got this book for free as a part of Blogadda’s book review program, here is the … Continue reading »
A love story that wasn’t
Ten years have passed, recollecting the lost memories he suddenly felt the chill. The chill was from the AC vent, he had not felt fresh air since ages. He parted the curtains of the window of his corner office at the top floor of the city’s tallest building. He looked at the open sky, felt … Continue reading »
Data Privacy and You
In this post, with the help of real life examples I am trying to help you understand the impact of data privacy in the web world in particular the Google based services you use. Google is getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter … Continue reading »
Why rabbits can’t fly, Ishant Sharma can’t bat and Dr. Manmohan Singh can’t sing?
The questions is as simple as it can get and the answer is as plain, because these are not their areas of expertise, these are the things they are not good at, these are not their strengths, these are not things or work they are supposed to do. So why am I even writing about … Continue reading »
Love, hope and other words…
Love at first sight was just a saying for him until he saw her. The realization struck him hard. He had never imagined that love could be so beautiful. All he had heard about love was misery and pain. His friends told him that she was out of his league, and for long he believed … Continue reading »
SOPA and PIPA
SOPA reminds me of project we code named as SOPA while I was working at Satyam Computer Services Ltd. And PIPA reminds me of PIPPA Middleton and her famous bottom. But SOPA and PIPA are in news for a different reason. Wikipedia blacked out, Google covered its logo with black strip to mark their protest … Continue reading »
Who is Salman Rushdie??
To me, many of my friends and, to many other men who would be brave enough to confess, Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an ex-husband of actress, model, television host, and cookbook author, the dusky and the sultry Padma Lakshmi. ‘Midnight’s Children’, ‘Booker prize’ and ‘The Satanic Verses’ were later found out. Why I am … Continue reading »
The model election code of conduct
The Election Commission has ordered for covering up of all the ‘Mayawati’ and ‘elephant’ statues as a part of code of conduct for the upcoming assembly elections in U.P. I wonder if the code of conduct can actually be implemented, and is restricted to just the statues, because according to the same logic they should … Continue reading »
