Youngsters love to snoop around
Book Review. In love with Simran by Kulpreet Yadav. Srishti Publishers. Fiction.
Modern laptops can take a beating
‘The war is on. There are skirmishes taking place all over the place. Short pitched battles cannot be escaped’, said the man about to leave for his urgent business meeting. His son nodded in agreement and added, ‘This is the real world scenario that every young and old laptop user faces today. Even gamers that...
Happiness is way above smiles
If happiness were smiles, Whatsapp will be our God. Stand-up comedians will then be angels. Jokes will be the mantras to chant daily. Comedy will be the genetic sutra in religious books to be revered. Fiction will then have some comical character as the protagonist every time. Places of religious worship will have comic-books in...
Yet another failed attempt by Chetan Bhagat
Book review.
'The Girl in Room 105' written by Chetan Bhagat.
When you take a closer look at the pedestrian attempts of Keshav Rajpurohit and Saurabh at solving a murder mystery you sometimes feel as if the writer was a curious mix of a genre-challenged Enid Blyton (that she never was) and a pathetically jumbled-up Agatha Christie...
The right direction is towards specialization
More than a decade back when I asked my son about the plans he had once school was over, he switched on the desktop and opened an excel sheet that had all possible details of colleges, institutes, and universities with courses in architecture. I remembered never having been so diligent about my own choices in...
Laptops are now customizable and colourful
There is a definite shift in the way people use their laptops today. I see revelers carry them to the beach with them, trekkers work on updates while relaxing on a boulder high on mountain tops, and the urgency of remaining in touch means they are used in in trains and buses as well. Laptops...
There is no tussle between audio and print books
There were hundreds of young and not so young trekkers walking towards the Triund Peak near Dharamshala and most had earphones glued to their ears. They preferred hearing songs and not the unending orchestra that played on without a break and was available as a free audio-book of nature. They were neither interested in reading...
We do NOT kill words
‘Hubby, wifey, kiddo,’ I muttered, ‘why are people so obsessed with this silly sounding terminology? Why can’t they just use simple and straight-forward words or names?’ Specky, my wife, smiled and said, ‘Better than hamare woh that would seem like there were three in some marriage.’ This made us think about euphemisms that we in...
Watching crows in the rain
Crows don’t dance in the rain They neither fly away nor caw Getting wet is such a strain And against all their crow law. But they share space As they patiently wait Before another race To a prey or a bait. I know we aren’t like a crow. Even one bit.
We live in a world populated by sales instincts
Don’t ever make the mistake of assuming that creativity is what makes the world work wonders. I see everyone selling something or the other all over. Hard-sell, I thought had finally conquered the human mind… until I read what Leo Burnett had to say on this. He wrote that there’s no such thing as ‘hard...
