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: 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…

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.

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…

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.

If a template is all you can offer

I tweeted sometime ago that “if a template is all you offer, you really don’t have much to offer”

Let me explain.

For the purpose of this post, the term “customer” can mean anybody you interact with — not just…