The Economist: Fading lights in Mumbai 0

The Economist: Fading lights in Mumbai

Commented on http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/07/cinema-india I still remember how these used to be the center of attraction – local city-centers where all would galvanize over weekends to refresh their moods and relationships. The speed...

Cult of Puzzles 0

Cult of Puzzles

I don’t like puzzles. I don’t like the smugness of puzzle solvers. I have yet to find a puzzle which tests anything beside knowledge of obscure fact, or extremely generic assumptions which...

Again (poem with bad english) 0

Again (poem with bad english)

I felt it I have (felt) that feeling again The strangeness of emptiness inside me Has started sucking me in back again This dark gaping hole that I feel The void of...

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From Wikipedia: Agile Manifesto reads, in its entirety, as follows:[1] We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come...

Potluck 0

Potluck

They just couldn’t get enough of it They buy the spices and call the planter They make these jokes on most inane things And then they just cannot help the laughter When...

Photoblog? No Photoblog! 0

Photoblog? No Photoblog!

With increasing wealth among younger urban population, photography has become a poor man’s hobby. No more stamp collection sir, we have a got the most expensive DSLR with the cheapest lens and...

Notes on the Wikileaks debacle 0

Notes on the Wikileaks debacle

It is strange that Julian Assange has become a synonym of Wikileaks and all that has been leaked. While I am not in a position to comment on what will happen to...

Moving on 0

Moving on

Life is never forgotten – people who had near death experiences tell me that their whole life flashed before them in still frames – all within seconds. Now, it is certainly not...

Women, Work and Education 0

Women, Work and Education

I am fascinated by sociology. While it is very easy in this field to confuse correlation with causation, nevertheless the idea that seemingly unrelated entities are tightly joined together simply via Human...