In defense of the ‘Nano’

This is my first post for the year 2008 and I would like to start this year with my two cents on the recently launched Nano – the 1 lakh car. While some have embraced the idea of such a cheap car, some others have declared that the car would be a disastrous for the [...]

Read Full Post »

Inspirational lecture by a CMU professor.

This is quite an inspirational lecture given by Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon professor.He’s terminally ill and he was told that he had a few months to live. This video is quite popular in the web but I came across it just today and thought I’d share it with you all. You can download this [...]

Read Full Post »

Life comes in shades of gray.

“The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.” ~Oscar Wilde. I used to believe that life comes in ‘black and white’, but now I believe that it comes in various shades of gray. Nothing is as simple as [...]

Read Full Post »

What have I learnt in the past 2 years?

I have been working in the IT industry for the past two years.Over this period, I have noticed a major shift in the way I interact with others.This post is an attempt to introspect what I have learnt and un-learnt in the past two years.Even if you do not agree with my ideas,please humor me.At [...]

Read Full Post »

From worry to peace

When I start worrying about my problems/fears, I think about the person who is not sure whether he/she will be able to eat two square meals a day. When I start worrying about the problems faced by our nation,my thoughts reach out to the problems faced by the world. When I try to understand global [...]

Read Full Post »

A perverted view of ‘Equality’

Bertrand Russell wrote In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. This opinion is,of course, [...]

Read Full Post »