Review: Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara

I am sure I could draw a line and split the entire Indian community into two halves — one half that embraces the new Mile Sur video-song and another that doesn’t.

In any case, I thoroughly enjoyed the Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara video-song…

Book Review — The Idol Thief

Every country regardless of its political and economic system, with governments weak or poor, stable or…

Ilayaraja glows again

It is not often that a single song comes off as worthy of a full review, at least not in the last 10 years or so. The last review-worthy IR song was Om Sivoham from Naan Kadavul.

Also, sometimes I feel conscious that I don’t track film songs closely enough to…

Vestigial Skills

The term Vestigial, in the context of body parts, refers to features and parts of the human body that have lost their significance and/or utility over the course of human evolution. For example, the earlobe, the appendix, the coccyx, the human hair, the wisdom teeth and few other organs are…

Noise canceling headphone — A business case

If you want to cut to the chase, read just the last line.

My already-low tolerance for noise was tested when I moved into this noisy Manhattan apartment last month. It wasn’t just the apartment; the entire city is noise-filled…

Book Review — The Great Speeches of Modern India

The problem with reading history books written by historians is that the content is invariably colored by the author’s own beliefs and positions. When you are reading a certain historical event, you can rest assured you are reading the author’s…

A word on (in) Tamil

Disclaimer: Though this post is written in English, it is actually about semantics of words in Tamil. If you don’t know Tamil really well, you won’t find this interesting.

There are two words in English that have entirely different meanings and used as such. But…

Why I moved to Medium

I had previously hosted my blog on Wordpress hosted version, using AWS’s EC2 based hosting service, which in turn used a Wordpress Multisite AMI from Bitnami.

Everything went well. Until it did not.

Book Review: India After Gandhi

You cannot move forward, if you don’t know where you came from

Thanks to my being a pathetic student at history, much of what little school books taught us about India and its history, went over my head. Added to that, I used to suck at reading…

Book Review — Hit Refresh

We have heard FANG. And FAANG. There is an obvious missing element here — Microsoft.

Microsoft had lost several years of market leadership because of the declining software licensing business and the yet-to-pick-up cloud business. But they are coming back…