Sci-fi disguised as an affordable accessory is real
Accessories are forever on every tech buyer’s mind today… and when I say this, I also mean those who are ostensibly giving every excuse to stay away from them. There is such a dream-like ambience to accessories that most of us may not any more wish to use a simple smartphone. It reminds me of...
North Korea wins the ban-race
If anyone in the world needs cheer this Christmas, it is the North Korean citizen. They are spending their eleven days of complete black-out of any form of laughter and fun… it is not just laughing that is banned, but also celebrating birthdays, drinking, and even mourning their dead! Banning ‘leisure activities’ obviously includes the...
You are being cheeky, Mr. Minister
When Gulabrao Patil from Shiv Sena made it to the headlines for remarking that those who had ‘been MLAs for 30 years should come to my constituency and see the roads. If they are not like Hema Malini’s cheeks, then I will resign’ he was probably thinking of those millions of quotes that one comes...
What are they talking about? Bhakt, bhakti, and brickbats
If you think you know what bhakti means, you obviously have no idea that someone on urban dictionary defines it as ‘the act of falling asleep or randomly leaving instant messenger without an away message and not returning for a few hours. The act of asking too my hypothetical questions’ and if you did that...
What are they talking about? Age, alcohol, and addiction
Age, alcohol, and addiction in a conversation these past few days has had a surprising entry: Rats. Yes, rats have been accused by SHO Inderpal Singh of Kotwali Dehat police station in UP as non-paying guzzlers of 1450 cartons of illicit liquor seized by them. When I searched the internet for similar cases, I was...
What are they talking about? Theme reveal for #BlogchatterA2Z for 2021
If one goes by what happens on the social media these days one walks away with the impression that everyone is ready to talk. Without wanting to hear anyone else out, of course. It is so much of yada-yada all over that no one is quite sure if it is informed views that one is...
Make in India is not always as great as it sounds
Going beyond logic is fast becoming a national pastime. I mean, look at the way ordinances, legislations, regulations, prohibitions, lockdowns, and bans compete with protests, PILs, marches, chakka-jams, bandhs, rants on the social media platforms, and rallies. The list on both sides is much larger than what you read here and if I were to...
Woman – a thunderstorm with a touch of lightening
Women in India have a voice that is heard all over the world. Not that their silence went unheard because it was that deathly quiet that has probably given birth to movements like ‘beti bachhao, beti padhao’ and slogans like ‘Equal rights are not special rights‘, ‘Woman is the companion of man’, ‘Gifted with equal...
Thoughts as 2020 comes to an end
What does one say to an year that has made a lot of effort to remain at top of the unpopularity charts? Obviously, a big thank you… because trying times, tough moments, and all the wrongs ever inflicted on us by time invariably metamorphose into happy looking steppingstones that help us go across a struggling...
We are all travelers
The soft sound of a pin dropping on a rug. Even the whimper of thoughts as I gently scratch my head as I think. Or the thunderous buildup of musical notes as someone unknown somewhere strange walks in or rushes out or does whatever has to be done. There are no rules of any of...
Paanwalas and writers
Writers love transforming even plain words into metaphors that threaten to tell the truth as it really is. This breed loves staring boldly (well, sometimes meekly) into a blank sheet of paper until ideas are forced to get in line and begin marching to the tune that they whistle or hum or sing… or just...
Good management seeks stable but simple solutions
Problems remain problems until someone insists on a solution. So yes, every solution does begin its life as something that appears insignificant and most of us could be tempted to discard pursuing it as useless, intimidatory, and a drain on time and resources. But there will invariably be one individual, quite probably a visionary in...
