I had reread the book a second time just recently. It is a complicated book which offers a lot of explanation into particle physics, some believable crap 🙂 about anti-matter, how it was created and stored by these scientists in a laboratory at CERN in Switzerland. The author also launches into lengthy narratives about the … Read More →
Why is language such an issue: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3633970
There is this Kellogg’s cereal ad which airs on TV. The gist of the ad is that they promise some weight loss after having 2 bowls of Kellogg’s per day for 2 weeks which they call a challenge( Sure, the way Kellogg’s is priced, the worry itself of consuming so much of it would cause … Read More →
A friend of mine who had her birthday had the scare of her life yesterday. She was going to pick son up from school when on a bad patch on the road, a taxi tried to go close to her, she went ahead and moved on. For some reason this guy got miffed, chased her … Read More →
Further to my previous post and my meeting with the Principal, Siddharth fell sick and did not attend school for the last week. He resumed this Monday and still has a cough and cold, albeit subsiding. I wrote an email to the Principal yesterday and there was prompt action today. To cut a long story … Read More →
My son had a very strange experience and his first taste of discrimination in school day before yesterday. He came home and told me that some boys had beaten him in school. I thought it must be one of the tiffs that children normally get into. He was in tears but he becomes teary-eyed real … Read More →
Every year, we totter on the brink of power crisis in this country. We start looking to the heavens to open up and fill our reservoirs to ensure a good power and water supply to its citizens. The rain Gods have not been relenting this far and look at the crisis we have gotten ourselves … Read More →
I was thinking that now that Gautam has begun school, I’d have much more time on my hands. Surprisingly, that is not so! I have to wake up latest by 6 everyday. I have 3 tiffins to pack for my three boys ;). Gurdev can eat in his office canteen on those days when I … Read More →
Nandan Nilekani – the co-founder of one of the biggest Indian IT companies Infosys has resigned from the company to take up a rank of a cabinet minister in the government. He is heading the UIC (Unique Identification Card) scheme. This is meant to provide a National foolproof biometric Identity card to each and every … Read More →
Since the controversy of ill treatment of Indian students in Australia has broken out, one argument which has been heard in many forums is how India as a country is very racist to its own people and the two ugliest dimensions of it manifest as the caste system and stereotyping of individuals according to their … Read More →