Earth Day 2013 2

April 22nd, is Earth Day and you can see that in a beautiful interactive Weather Control Doodle on Google’s home page. On Earth Day, I would expect people on different social media channels to do multiple idiotic things … such as switching off their electronic devices for an hour. Yes, and that would make a ...

RIP Google Reader

Google is one organization which I will always respect. The amount of products and web apps that it has released over the years is awesome … it’s not that other companies are not releasing as many products (if not more!). What gets to me is that the sheer number of products that Google releases which ...

Off to Coorg 7

Off to Coorg
Every year we make it a point to go on a week long vacation. This year is like no other, most of the times I try and leave behind most of the ties at work. This time around, the deluge of work was in such a high volume, that I decided to take some work ...

Why it is not a Happy Republic Day 4

Yesterday as the entire nation celebrated it’s 64th Republic day, as different brands and people were happily swinging the tri-colour in the air, I deliberately chose NOT to post a tri-coloured image on my blog wishing everyone a Happy Republic Day. It has been 64 years for the country and frankly speaking I am not ...

Happy New Year 2013! 2

People ask me what will I be doing this new years? In the past, I would be partying during my bachelor days … there were some other nights when on New Years, I was installing Ubuntu alongside with a glass of scotch! (yes, this has happened on two separate New Year occasions in fact!). This ...

Merry Xmas!

Merry Xmas!
Wishing all of you folks out there a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

As the World Ends 2

As the World Ends
Today is the D-Day, the day when the Mayan calendar runs out … and thus, leading us to think that the world has ended. What were they really thinking? In almost all civilizations, this day has been predicted. We Maharashtrians have an end of the world known as pralay. This literally translates into the great ...

Happy Diwali

Happy Diwali

Entrepreneurs in 2012

Entrepreneurs in 2012
With the year 2012 coming to an end, I have been thinking for quite some time about entrepreneurship now. In fact, currently I am thinking about bootstrapping my own setup with a friend. Having said that, it is interesting to note how entrepreneurship has changed its face in the society. There used to be a ...

Happy Dussehra

Here’s wishing all of you a very happy Vijay Dashmi and a Happy Dussehra. When we were kids, we often used to say – Happy Dussra, Haath Paay pasra Today, is in essence, just that. It’s a holiday and everyone is relaxing. In Maharashtra, we have this tradition of exchanging leaves from the Shammi tree. ...