The Cake is not a lie , after all. Valve, the company which collided energy beams long before scientists in Geneva dreamed of it and gave us games like...
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Why are we missing alternatives to Bt?
Now it's the minister of state for science and technology, Prithviraj Chavan, who is defending Bt brinjal. The split in the government is wide open and the...
Was TCS Website Outsourced to Fraudsters?
I mentioned in the recent post about the TCS website hack that it isn't a great advertisement for a large tech company to put up a third party,...
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Understanding the eclipse in totality
When an acquaintance called to enquire about the timings of Friday's annular eclipse of the sun, the longest anyone will witness from Earth this millennium, I...
Fleeing the prison of technology
There was a time I could multiply 196 by 832, call my friends, family, lovers without referring to a phone book, remember the birthdays of those who mattered...
Papa Bear saw his plate, and said, “Someone has touched my brinjal.” Mother Bear looked at hers and added: “Someone seems to have pinched the peel off mine”....
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Brevity is bunkum, content kings know no bounds
The latest fad -- indeed, of the fickle-minded I dare say -- is tweeting: a characterisation of parsimony, not brevity, with the use of words to hammer home a...
Forward thinking and cyber blackmail
I am going to die within the next 2 days. Why? Well, I kinda forgot to forward a boring forward to some even more boring people. The result: I am as good as...
Rs 600 crore Satyam shocker for Anand Mahindra?
Industrialist Anand Mahindra is in for a major shock. Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties — companies run by the two sons of the jailed Ramalinga Raju — are soon...
Why do mobile calls drop so frequently
Even though telecom and information technology are my areas of expertise and I still do occasional editorials and columns in the Economic Times and the Times of...