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…

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: 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…

When do you become rich?

I certainly don’t mean to boil the ocean and get into the discussion of how much money is enough money. For money only provides wealth, not richness.

I don’t also mean to get into the philosophical discussion of “be happy with what you have”. My biased opinion…

Classical Music — Demystified

Historically, there has been a lot of elitism associated with classical music. Which is okay, because I don’t think classical music (whether it is western or Indian) will ever be for the masses. But it is NOT okay when it shoos away even a curious listener, because the…

Story of odd numbers

Prologue: In India, there is a practice to round financial transactions to the nearest 1 — so when you give to or take money from someone, it is common to see 11, 51, 101, 201, 251, 501, 1001, 10001, 50001 and so on. In this article, I explore why.

Net Neutrality

One of the reasons we — the consumers or the end-users of the internet — are relatively unaware of the meaning of Net Neutrality (NN) is that, we have always had it good and took NN for granted. We were not aware of internet being any other way.