Republic Day of India
Friday, January 26th, 2007 Posted in Social | 1 Comment »India got it's freedom on 15th August, 1947. It is referred to as the Independance Day. The constitution of India was formed on 26th January, 1950. It is referred to as the Republic Day. Both days are national holidays in India. 26th January ...
The sanctity of a complete album
Monday, December 11th, 2006 Posted in Gumption, Music, NewAge, Social | No Comments »Does having playlists of mp3s in random order mask the "full album" experience that we used to have a not so long time ago? Back in the tape days, I would have complete albums which I would play and get ...
Wikipedia asking for what content should be freed
Monday, October 23rd, 2006 Posted in General, Ideas, NewAge, Social | No Comments »Jimmy Wales is asking people to come up with ideas and suggestions about what premium content they would like to be freed up and made available in the public domain if they had the money to do it. Dream big. ...
PlanetRead - A small change for Colossal gains in Literacy
Monday, September 18th, 2006 Posted in General, Progress, Social | No Comments »A fairly simple yet promising idea. Link to PlanetRead .. A small change for Colossal gains in Literacy
Darfur is Dying
Thursday, June 29th, 2006 Posted in Social | 2 Comments »Darfur is Dying A very touching and potent way of highlighting the problems in Sudan. A free flash-based game that puts you as one of the thousands of people living a life of unrest.
Random Event
Monday, August 8th, 2005 Posted in General, Social, Technical, Technology | 1 Comment »Hybrid Cars
Thursday, August 4th, 2005 Posted in Progress, Social | No Comments »This is a field that is maturing fast and it is very significant. Fossil fuels (gasoline, petrol) are getting over. We need to find alternative sources of fuels. Until we find total replacements for the present fuel sources, we need to ...
$100 LAPTOPS for jumpstarting the Underpriveleged
Sunday, July 3rd, 2005 Posted in Social | No Comments »They are manufactiuring special laptops with 1 GB harddisks and 500 MHz processors for the school kids. Read about it here.
The Bazee MMS thing - Making sense of Non-sense
Monday, December 20th, 2004 Posted in General, Ideas, NewAge, Privacy, Social | No Comments »Click here to read it. An interesting article with a very clear stand on the issue.
Clinging to life - why?
Friday, November 28th, 2003 Posted in Ideas, Philosphical, Social | No Comments »Clinging to life - why?I have always admired the way we cling on to dear life. Everything we do springs forth from that desire to survive. Some actions are dictated by the desire to preserve our own lives. Others ...
Cannibals - Mark Knopfler
Saturday, August 9th, 2003 Posted in Gumption, Ideas, Music, Social | No Comments »Cannibals - Mark Knopfler"Daddy, is he a goodie or baddie ?Daddy, why do people go to war?""Once upon a time there were cannibals around,There are no cannibals anymore!"
understanding the human brain
Saturday, May 31st, 2003 Posted in Ideas, Philosphical, Social, Technology | No Comments »understanding the human brain.The human brain is a very nice example of interdependance. Everything that our brain percieves is based on everything else it percieves.Whatever our brain knows depends on everything else our brain knows. You cant tell red from ...
mahatma
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2002 Posted in Ideas, Social | No Comments »Gandhijifather of the nation.he is not dead. I can sense him. I feel him around me. he wasnt merciful. he wasnt humble. he wasnt good. he was Himself.His whole life was his experiments with truth. truth. being real. he ...
