Last month, I was struggling with a strange problem with my computer keyboard! It's a wireless Windows keyboard connected to my laptop. All of a sudden Ctrl+C shortcut stopped working. Interestingly, Ctrl+V worked fine. The C key also independently worked fine. It was frustrating as instead of copying text, [...]
Every new year also reminds me of the revelers that I had seen on the night of 31st December 1991, for it had made a lasting impression on me. The Gateway of India is one of the popular places in Mumbai to visit on the eve of the new [...]
I opened Wikipedia yesterday to check a few facts about Web3 (whatever that is) and saw an earnest donation request by Wikipedia. I am not a philanthropist on any scale and I had shared an interesting story of one of the few of my noble deeds. But I never [...]
Recently, I read a wonderful quote by Shane Parrish, "Ideas are cheap. Execution is expensive. The ability to execute separates people, not the ability to come up with ideas." So ideas are vital but have no meaning till you execute them and thus the rhetoric! I couldn't agree more and in fact, [...]
Could a title be more cliched than this! But the story indeed is of names. Think about it. Naming things is not an easy task. Most of the time it is problem of plenty, but it is a problem for sure. Think of geometry when you drew diagrams, you [...]
Although I now live in the coastal area of India, I had not seen the sea till the age of 20 years. I grew at a place that may appear at the center of the Indian peninsula, in a careless look. So there was no chance of sighting the [...]
I love good TV commercials as much as I love good movies and good TV series. But what is amazing about good TV commercials is the way they pack a punch even in the little time that we engage with them! Some witty commercials become part of our folklore [...]
I love good TV commercials as much as I love good movies and good TV series. But what is amazing about good TV commercials is the way they pack a punch even in the little time that we engage with them! Some witty commercials become part of our folklore [...]
Let me share a “Saradarji” joke today! (Note for my international audience: In India, like in other countries we have lots of popular personas used for crafting the jokes. Sardarjis represent brawns over brains guys. Drawing ethnicity into the jokes does not sound right only if you bring that [...]