Who says what to stay smart
Smart politicians. Smart bureaucrats. Smart managers. Smart journalists. Smart soldiers. Smart bloggers. Smart authors. Smart travelers. Smart housewives. Smart shoppers. Smart vendors. Smart drivers. Smart cyclists. Smart walkers. Smart parents. Smart enemies. Smart speakers. Smart beggars. Smart pedestrians. The truth is that there is no end to who or what aspires to get tagged with...
We’re almost there
Smartness is in. Today even a bin Thinks it is a sin To mix And not fix The biodegradables With harmful disposables. IoT is on its way to win Smartness is finally in. Look anywhere around in a store or browse anywhere on an online portal, the most frequent eyeball catchers will invariably be gadgets...
A maverick trapped in a body
Life is a fun-loving sentence that doesn’t follow any rules of sublime grammar. No rules of nouns and pronouns or conjunctions and prepositions asking words to follow a specified pattern. I have seen full-stops popping up even before pauses have existed. There are times when adjectives pile up in comic sequences without even attempting to...
Adventures with aircrafts and spacecrafts
Thrillers will never bore anyone, ever. Some authors claim that thrillers engineer life in ways that every moment oozes with challenging creative thoughts. This is the sort of thought I had when a friend asked me about aerospace engineering and its scope. ‘This branch of engineering is like reading a thriller,’ I said, and went...
GarhKundhar Fort – Baune chor ka kila
Garh Kundhar ka Quila… around 70 kms from Jhansi via Baruasagar and Niwari… has a history that is full of stories that can make one tremble with fear. I will soon be uploading a post on this fort but for now let me just say that this fort is also called ‘Bonae chor ka kila’...
In the game and here to stay
There are games that people play. Why must dreams, creative impulses, instincts, ambitions, desires, wants, and even technology remain far behind? We know the way technology has played games with us all by making surprise entries with innovations that have surprised and sometimes bewildered us. No, there was no ‘shattering disorientation brought about’ as the...
For those wanting to study or live abroad
Dreams of wanting to study or living abroad obviously begin with a thorough appraisal of your own abilities, a long-term appraisal of what you intend to do there, and knowing the English language. I have talked about the Pearson PTE Academic Test as The Third Alternative in an earlier post that I wrote in April...
The rise of regional languages
No, it isn’t another uprising that I intend to talk about but a revolution that has strangely remained in the shadows for long now. For the past few years we have all noticed the way the feature phones gave way to smart devices and the way the internet has penetrated across the economic and geographical...
The way stories unfold
Ideas for stories believe in a 360 degree freedom to enter. This is more than the mind being like a fortress that is besieged because inspirations for plots do not need the fortress gates to open. Ideas have the power to come in anyway and they could very well walk through the walls as if...
Tourism is a deadly sin
It was four in the morning and we were slowly making our way through the dark lobby of our hotel to go outside. There were two dark figures, probably the night-shift receptionist and another person presumably to attend calls to housekeeping, snoring without a care on the sofa there. As we stepped out and breathed...
Trapped inside the same pattern
Most of us choose to stay away from unnecessary challenges. We love the usual, get confused when life offers an array of ever-multiplying choices, and firmly believe that getting out of one’s comfort zone is extremely fool-hardy. I know that most readers will read this and mutter, ‘Nonsense! Not me, at least.’ But hey, don’t...
Social media influencers and conservation
Conservation and fundoo tourists do not really go together. This is because the forests and the wildlife there, including the tiger, can do without their habitat getting overwhelmed by ecstatic shouts, irreverent whistles, and camera flashes that are anyway not doing much except creating layers of disgust in the heart of nature. Forests are places...
