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When celebrities started using Twitter (which was one of its scale strategies btw both in India and US), I saw the whole nation joining Twitter. I would’ve believed all that celebrity crush, but apparently, it looks like at least some of the celebrities are faking it by buying ghost accounts on Twitter – a lame strategy that Twitter is yet to bust. (Facebook had busted pages that had fake...
When we think about Mahatma Gandhi, what comes to our mind is an iconic figure. An image that the world has seen, many times over. That of a smiling, saint like figure with virtues and wisdom in every word spoken. Mahatma is truly an inspiration to a generation, the world over. In this article, I’d like to bring to focus, some topics that came to my attention, on the life of Gandhi, the...
That’s good news indeed. According to the Internet and Mobile Association of India, a recent study of numbers revealed that in 2014, digital media incl. online advertising spend in India will hit up to 2,938 crores by 2014. 2013 has seen a lot of activity compared to past years, India is currently at INR 2260 crores already. Though a bit late, the Indian market has seen the biggest traction...
Here’s the thing. Blogger writes about Salman Khan. Salman Khan calls the blogger, gets the article removed. Blogger offers apology – says he’s been through excruciating time and is taking a break from blogging until he’s in the right frame of mind. First when I heard this story, I thought it’s a joke. It wasn’t. Soumyadipta Banerjee, a blogger in India writes a...
I have been getting more and more worried over the last year or so at the direction (or lack of it) in which our country is headed. It is like a runaway plane falling from the skies and we are plummeting past one alarming indicator after another– inflation, economic slowdown, falling rupee, complete break-down of law and order, ever emboldened Naxalites, total internalization of corruption, an...
According to the Wiki – Kumbh Mela is a mass Hindu pilgrimage in which Hindus gather at the Sangam, meeting place, of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Sarasvati, at Prayag where bathing for purification from sin is considered especially auspicious. The festival is billed as the “biggest gathering on Earth”; in 2001 more than 40 million gathered on the busiest of its 55...
This is one of those apps that you use for the first three seconds and go – “Whoa! Why didn’t I come across this earlier.” I stumbled on this Indian Railways + Google Maps mashup application and had a true wow moment! So, this app does a real time mapping of all the Indian Railway Trains that are running at the moment over Google maps, basically giving you a live visual update of which train is...
This one was hilarious. Aggressively hilarious. The Hindu got it right this time targeting the youth with a pointy edge. But I thought it still had that little dumb factor with it. Why? The “actors” weren’t that convincing. I could spot one of them who was already on a show on Fox Traveller – Life Mein Ek Bar. However, to imagine how Times of India would take it is even more hilarious. If they...
Is the Mahabharath and Ramayan mere mythological stories or could they have been for real? If real the Mahabharatha dates backs up to 1200 BC, giving clues that ancient Indian civilization is one of it not the earliest. I’m no expert on this but the following Discovery channel documentary on the studies by Doctor Rao done on Dwaraka, the ancient city mentioned in Mahabharata, gives integral clues...
A recent study by University of Manipal found that on every Indian Rupee note that is in circulation, there are strains of E.Coli bacteria found, that are drug resistant. Next time, use a hand sanitizer.
Details of the study here.
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