Well, there is strong reason to make such a bold statement as I made through the title of this post. Let’s start with breaking the news, if you already don’t know that identi.ca (yet another micro-blogging site) and When Twitter is Down” (URL: http://whentwitterisdown.com). I decided to check, what happens when twitter is down, and [...]
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Google is launching its own operating system, Google Chrome OS. The news came yesterday directly from the horse’s mouth. This development is worth noticing. It might be the beginning of the end of Microsoft’s thirty years of domination in the operating system market. Or is it so? Can Google beat Microsoft in its own game? [...]
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I never knew Michael Jackson, nor did I hear much of his songs (almost none), still I liked him (I am not sure why). And the news of his demise shook me. Like many of his fans, I too never thought he is a mortal, and couldn’t associate death with this Pop Icon. He is [...]
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Photography is an art or not? This debate should be left for the critics to fight and decide, whatever its final status comes to be, no one can deny the way photography has affected visual storytelling. Started with cave painting, visual storytelling has reached the masses, crossing the class boundary of fresco paintings and the [...]
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Two things happened recently. One can be labelled important, while another should be called a piece of scrap. What’s important is the timing, how they coincided. I, just finished, Anderson Cooper’s, CNN foreign correspondent, book Dispatches from the edge and couple of days back got trapped into watching, Jugaad ki Jawaani on Aaj Tak, (had [...]
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Holding corpse in your hands is enough to kaput all the romantic notions of death. This was the lone experience I had of holding an about-to-speak-but-would-never-speak body of any being. The situation indeed was saddening but not less thought provoking, It left me thinking silently for hours (unlike me). The attempt to encapsulate the [...]
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DISCLAIMER: This post has nothing to do with the game cricket, my apology to the fans of cricket crazy nation. The issue here is rather bigger that involves the personal aspect behind liking cricket or any other sports or any other activity. Passion. This post is about liking, attachment, passion, and effect of wide availability [...]
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Headgear with you!
Why do you carry it,
all the while?
Is there some war going,
or got intuition of some assault,
or is it just imagination that…?
Relax! Friend, keep it aside
I am with you
and nothing else, will hurt.
Do you still believe,
“stick & stone may break
my bone but words can’t hurt?”
what makes you carry
this load all the while?
You seem concerned, [...]
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With all the development and wealth of the world the paying capacity of the consumer has dropped significantly and will continue to do so in times to come. Surprised or shocked? This statement might sound completely incongruous to the current economic condition and also sounds like someone giving this statement during the time of depression. [...]
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Information always had been noun. Then was digital revolution; the speed and velocity of its delivery has transformed ‘Information’, into a verb or rather ‘the verb’ for all the practical purposes.
For several decades in some part of our professional lives, in fields like asset markets, real estate, it was regarded as a verb. But [...]
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