Welcome to the club Parag! …so say Satya Nadella of Microsoft Corp, Shantanu Narayen of Adobe Inc, Arvind Krishna of International Business Machines Corp., Sundar Pichai of Alphabet Inc. , Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo and Ajay Banga of Mastercard Inc. It’s heartening to see Indian talent being celebrated on the world stage. It’s also amusing …
I had written this blogpost in 2015. About detoxing from the digital medium. Its nearing the end of 2021. The disease still has not gone. Many detoxes done, and possibly many to go. But this addition is such that we have now normalized it. Much like a pandemic becomes an endemic in due course. And …
I know the subject of today’s post sounded like Greek and Latin, because, well, it is Greek. Part of the Greek alphabet to be precise. Now, how is that relevant? Well, you may not be familiar with the terms, but you surely have heard of Omicron, the latest variant on the block, and the missing …
Oh how times change, The new has become old, and the old has become new tailors are now bespoke, and shaves done with single blades, not two food is now fast, but slow cooking has it’s fans, a lot of fuss made bout ceramic pots and pans time and tide wait for your phone updates …
I saw this movie on Amazon Prime today. Rathnan Prapancha (or Rathna’s world) is a Kannada movie, starring Dhananjaya, and directed by Rohit Padaki. I have mentioned in my earlier posts, about OTT bridging the language barriers within India (and worldwide) and bringing to us stories that we can savor, one subtitle at a time. …
Every once in a while, I stumble upon reviews of books that I had written back in the day. This is one of my favorites (the review, not the book). Actually, I have been pondering over how I read, in general. Given that I read so much, how do I make more meaningful use of …
I read an interesting article today. It had a central thought – what if we aren’t the first advanced civilization on Earth? Before you go about dismissing these claims based on “lack of evidence”, here is what the article had to say… The oldest expansive patch of surface is the Negev Desert in southern Israel, and it …
We are but the sum total of the choices we make, so they say… We choose our friends, from the time we set foot in kindergarten through our school, college and beyond… we choose the food we eat, some we relish, some we don’t, we choose what we wear, and have our own personal style, …
Sometimes I wonder if the world could be a better place, where people say what they mean and mean what they say… Sometimes I wonder if the world could be a better place, where work is worship and gods are loved… Sometimes I wonder if the world could be a better place, where people matter …
There are many paths to where you want to go, I’m on my way there too, so that you know… I walk the thorny bushes, you chose the flowery avenue Only cacti on my path, yours is filled with morning dew… I can’t stop, to catch my breath, for I may stray, Oh what a …
