“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 »
Category Archives: Life
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 »
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 »
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 »
A magic potion called Jan Lokpal
A magic potion called Jan Lokpal A cure to all disease, a remedy to all your problems has finally arrived. No it is not “Sandhi Sudha” as claimed by a leading (really?) Bollywood actor it is called Jan Lokpal. Want true democracy? Just support the Jan Lokpal movement!! True democracy has finally arrived in the … Continue reading »
Not done.. call me a male chauvinist but I am against it
I recently downloaded and read a part of the ‘Report of Dr Anil Kakodkar Committee’ on ‘Taking IITs to Excellence and Greater Relevance’. Here are some key findings from the report In 2010, only 12% of those who qualified in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) were women. This was a mere 6% just 5 years … Continue reading »
AMRI fire, have we learned anything?
India Inc. has this uncanny knack of shocking me. On one hand we are this ever progressing, developing country on the verge of being developed ever since I remember, on the other hand incidents like the one that happened in AMRI Kolkata saddens me to the core, bring me back to ground reality… Fire safety … Continue reading »
Tatkal – IRCTC
Morning 7:54 AM: Logged into IRCTC site smoothly, ticket status on indianrail.gov under tatkal quota SL- 260, 3 AC - 64 Morning 8:09 AM Ticket status: SL- WL 37, 3 AC – Regret/ WL 13 From 7:54 AM to 8:09 AM – A journey from hope to despair. Continue reading »
