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Just 10 more mins

. Monday, November 4, 2013

It’s 6:30 AM and you have to get up for work. One more push, you tell yourself. How easily you justify just 10 more minutes. Just a little more time because in 10 minutes, you’re going to feel great and ready to start the day. Just 10 more minutes. alarm-clockThen another 10 minutes. Five more 10 minutes later and you find you are able to move faster than you ever thought you could! You fly out the door cursing your snooze button planning your revenge on that seductive little button.

The next morning you forget all about your feud and you and your snooze button are best friends again.

My Open Letter

. Thursday, October 31, 2013

Here is my open letter !! 

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Ok let’s go back to study

. Monday, October 28, 2013

College was fun for most of us. (Taken into account my recent sting of b-school applications and the art of approaching the guess estimate question I would consider an outlier of 15%) Bunk classes, go to the hangout at nearby tea stall down the hostel road, conveniently located to puff a smoke, where none of the profs you meet in classes visit. Planned trips and unplanned midnight trips were the frequently visited pages. And it’s been ages you have travelled to a  new place now. The last one was almost 9-10 months ago.

So you are fucking 26 now, your girlfriend has either left for a more settle guy (apparently a guy who earns more than you) or convincingly you never had one (better to have loved and lost, than not loved at all?). You have been working on the same shit project for some time, its almost 3 years now. Nothing in this world excites you now. You don’t have anything to look forward to. You had some recent interest. But they are all locked down deep inside you. The DSLR you bought, after paying a 6 month EMI at 3.5% of Interest is safely put in your cupboard; turns out that you realized you are not that great an artist or may be you just had that realization which uttered “Every other fucker thinks he is some photographer and can start a photography club” Subconsciously you don’t want to remind of your normal life. Nothing is diverse and different if a whole bunch of people start to doing it. Why the hell in the world did so many of your friends turned to photography. Damn the fuckers .

Well than what ? Time for something new ? Different ? Interesting ? You are as clueless as the fucking politicians.

How about a Masters in US (fuck yeah) That feels so comforting all of a sudden.

The monotony of life is just unbearable. You dream of dating white chicks, clubbing in Los Angeles, California. Oh wait you can have a cool summer trip in Germany. Basically you drift away from yourself. You want something new in life. The current scheme of things doesn’t works at all.

Of course Masters or popularly abbreviated as MS is the perfect choice. It not only offers a degree but also a chance to settle in foreign land, should you want to chose later. That fantasy is so cool.

So the next logical step is start studying for GRE, learn by heart the every damn word in the English dictionary. Solve all the filthy sentence correction question. Master the art of doing Reading comprehension if you don’t understand a shit. 1793870251_1365612643

Or wait option 2. you threaten quitting if your project doesn’t initiates H1B. “Onsite, here I come!”

6 months later you start missing home-made coffee, the midnight walk to nearby tea stalls, your friends talking shit after getting piss drunk in the local bar.  The list eventually starts getting as long as you stay in foreign land.

Everything has changed.

The story of a DSLR

. Sunday, October 27, 2013

For a lot of people who are stuck in a quarter life crisis the DSLR comes in as a temporary rescue. Mid-20’s , the feeling of purposelessness, big bucks, easy EMI options (all thanks to the credit model of economy), and a sudden urge to quench the thirst of art and creativity makes us to fantasize about owning a killer camera. A digital camera ? No wait digital camera were in mid 2000’s. The DSLR is the latest talk of town. You have unexplored creative energy bubbling within you and the boring humdrum of office life seems colorless; and Eureka! You have an idea.

For weeks and month you trying accessing to the content online searching for pages and websites that gives you tons of information about cams and photography. You consult photographers and meet almost everyone wherever you go and then you finally settle for one.

Well it has a lens, abc mm it’s black and takes great images; ranging from a bird’s eye to floating cloud. And then what is the next big logical step ? You log on to facebook and post all the images under a newly created album ‘My first photo with my brand new xyz DSLR’. Initially you abuse facebook but eventually you spam almost everyone’s feed in your friend list. And far as your friends are considered they tend to ignore after a while.

Humans are interesting beings. What begins as a quest to get rid of quarter life crisis eventually tapers out. Truly said we are our desires.

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My BBM Pin – ######

. Friday, October 25, 2013

So I slept last night and presumably woke up in 2009. People were sharing their BBM Pins. I found it interesting. Apparently I installed BBM. I had been exposed to this instant messenger. No I did not or do not own blackberry. But the firm for which I was working last evidently had given me a corporate blackberry, that made my life miserable and sad. (All thanks to the minutely emails).

A well-received advertisement campaign never defines the success of a product. Similarly, the arrival of BBM on Android and iPhone may have pulled in a large number of users, but the humongous 10 million downloads in 24 hours is not necessarily an indicator that users are happy, satisfied and would continue using the app, that was once a BlackBerry device exclusive. While there are fundamental differences between downloading an application and using a application; we often tend to overlook that. I have been quite a satisfied customer/consumer of widely used instant messaging (IM) tool WhatsApp and never looked for other IM apps flocking the iTunes App Store; but I eagerly waited for BBM to come to App store. The app in spite of BlackBerry's sagging fortunes, retained much of its iconic appeal.bbmvswhatsapp

The problem with BBM is that it has been 2 years behind the schedule application in the word of cross-platform IM services. While many believe that BBM might be able to compete with other cross platform IMs like hangout or WhatsApp, I seriously doubt it. Why do I doubt ? Yes here are my some of the reasons.

  1. The flaw in the invitation model – The PIN based model is highly flawed, for the simple reason, that while it maintains the privacy aspect it does adds an additional layer of complexity. Means look at the iMessage.  A common belief is that a BBM PIN, at times, is shared when you don't want to give your number but want to stay in touch and maintain communication with a set of people. In such cases I would recommend Google Hangouts (Google Talk) instead, which I believe Android users would be quite used to. You can take their email address and add them to your Hangouts. Here you also have an authority to choose and reject. Another purported BBM advantage washed away. Anyone of us may come across situations where we want to establish a communication with a person, but may feel a little shy in approaching and asking for a BBM PIN - he may share, may be not. A relation may gets spoiled before it is made. WhatsApp is a much better choice here. I mean c’mon we leave in 2013 and not in 2008


  2. In an IM application what matters the most is the appearance of previous messages in a chat window. Before you make a reply, you often want to read the recent messages exchanged between the two or more than two in case of a group chat. There are more messages in a WhatsApp chat window than in a BBM chat window. Moreover in BBM there is cluttered display picture next to every message, which takes most of space unnecessarily. BlackBerry appears to want us to write without reading, while it is more important to first read and then write.


  3. Emoji is a new language of communication. It has been widely adopted by Android devices and well as iOS devices. Instant messaging apps have almost dozens of emoji icons to reflect much of your moods and behavior. On the other hand BBM has a limited stock of emoji icons


  4. Of all the nonsense stuff existent in the world which are deemed to be non-existential is the PING! button on BBM. It reminds me of Yahoo Messenger and it almost looks a redundant feature to me.


  5. Today, when most of the people own more than one device (phone, tablets etc) and prefer the convenience of using an app on multiple devices, BlackBerry released the BBM app in a way that confines users to use one BBM ID on one device at a time. The same issue is with WhatsApp. A WhatsApp account can only be verified with one number, on one device. Being a late participant in the race, BlackBerry could have got an edge over WhatsApp by making the BBM app work across devices. Though it never happened. Google hangouts is the one which has real advantages on this.

Despite writing it does not mean that I dislike BBM, it has been a great app on BlackBerry and brings much of it to Android and iOS, but then the Smartphone world has evolved much faster than BlackBerry could and BBM for Android and iOS is an indicator. Many new BBM users I know have already uninstalled the app, disappointed by BBM. If and when BlackBerry brings voice and video calling to BBM for Android (and iPhone), the scales could tilt a little. Till then it might lie idle in the social folder of my iPhone.

 

Like | Smile

. Monday, October 21, 2013

What does it means when a girl like or smiles at you. Possibly things can go topsy-turvy or does it leads to some kind of pleasurable phenomenon. But then what next ? How do you take the next step. I was reading over this and came across one analytically bent solution to it. Being an analyst and closer  to number, this seems so good.

It's simple. Probably if you guys have a had a time with probability this will be easy  to be deciphered. Just use Bayes' theorem. The probability she likes you is

P(like|smile) = \frac{P(smile|like)P(like)}{P(smile)}

P(like|smile) is what you want to know - the probability she likes you given the fact that she smiles at you. P(smile|like) is the probability that she will smile given that she sees someone she likes.

P(like) is the probability that she likes a random person.

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For example, suppose she just smiles at everyone. Then intuition says that fact that she smiles at you doesn't mean anything one way or another.

Indeed, P(smile|like) = 1 and P(smile)=1, and we have

P(like|smile) = P(like)

meaning that knowing that she smiles at you doesn't change anything. At the other extreme, suppose she smiles at everyone she likes, and only those she likes. Then

 P(smile) = P(like) and P(smile|like) = 1

Then we have

P(like|smile) = 1

and she is certain to like you. In the intermediate case, what you need to do is find the ratio of odds of smiling at people she likes to smiles in general, multiply by the percentage of people she likes, and there is your answer. The more she smiles in general, the lower the chance she likes you. The more she smiles at people she likes, the better the chance. And of course the more people she likes, the better your chances are.

Of course, how to actually determine these values is still a mystery.

Manager vs Leader

. Friday, October 18, 2013

I have been thinking for sometime what distinguishes a leader and a manager. Both seem to be doing equally well. I read a couple of articles and here is what I have pen down which I think are some of the key striking differences.

downloada. Managers have subordinates while leaders have followers

b. Manager often create circle of power while leaders have circle of influence

c. Manager often count values while leaders creates value

d. Manager does things right while leader does right thing

e. Manager has a short term vision while leader has a longer vision

f. The manager relies on control; the leader inspires trust.

The list can grow big but yes for now this seems reasonable to me.

iOS 7 – Preview on iPhone 4

. Thursday, October 17, 2013

The preview of iOS 7 on my iPhone 4

First thing first. Once I powered up my iPhone 4 the first thing I saw was the complete re-designed home screen. It had gone a considerable change. Especially the button which said slide to unlock comes with a layer to slide. The notification center sees a major re-haul. The control centre gives some quick option to switch on or off the airplane, wifi, sleep; the torch light comes to a rescue in control centre

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The home screen has major icons re designed. With a variant shade of color and luminosity the icons looks more rich and more sharp. The major change brought by iOS7 is the way it has provided the option to group the apps. The group now opens as a window in the same frame and the visibility and accessibility is much better. Also the size limit of 12 is no longer valid.

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The additional screen which was the leftmost screen to search has now been removed and you can search on any of the home screen by just sliding it down. This is one of the most intuitive feature of iOS7. 

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The calendar apps get a major re design considerations and is now more engaging and helpful. Sliding down a date on a month view opens the day view.

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Some of the native apps gets a major design changes. The collections in photos is an interesting ways to group. Notes App looks much cleaner and actually excites me to use it again and again. The clock app is more crisp and useful. The weather app now actually looks like a more professional and neater.

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The Phone app has also undergone a major aesthetic changes. The looks and feel is layered. The ‘Recent’, ‘Contact’, ‘Keypad’ and ‘Contact Details’ has a lighter theme now.

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Finally, the widely spoke multi tasking feature helps us to switch between applications with more ease and also helps to get rid of applications which are not being used. This is a real icing on the cake. Multitasking first appeared in iOS 4, but at the time it was limited: Only certain types of apps could run in the background, using Apple-approved frameworks for tasks such as audio, location, and uploading. In iOS 7, Apple has loosened the restrictions for multitasking and added a whole new user interface for switching between apps.That new interface is the most visible indication of the new multitasking system’s presence. Instead of relying on a bar of app icons, you double-click your device’s Home button to zoom out into a card-based interface, which shows you the app screens themselves (as they were when you last viewed them); tap any screen or the app icon below it to go to that app. You can quickly scroll over either the icons or the app screens to view your recent apps.

Not only does this make it easy to pick out which app you’re looking for, but it means you can quickly refer to a piece of information in one app without actually bringing that app to the foreground. You can also now force-quit an app by just flicking the card up and off the screen. And the multitasking interface works in both portrait and landscape orientations on all iOS devices.

All apps can also now take advantage of multitasking to keep updated in the background. Apple has worked to optimize the practice so it won’t deplete your device’s battery life—the system will look for factors like network connection strength, time of day, and push notifications to figure out when it should update apps. And it may refresh your frequently accessed apps—social networking programs, for example—more often.

Well,after the iOS 7 update my old iPhone 4 looks like a new device. Well I also got a new casemate matt screen guard just to make it look ‘physically’ new too. :)

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FYI

. Wednesday, October 16, 2013

A lot has already been said and written about Sachin on his retirement. I now feel that my childhood is over. But to all those who might start comparing any promising young cricketer with Sachin, this is my reply to them.

 

You may break all the records , you may loft well, you may flick well, you may play that leaned, laid back cover drive with lazy elegance, you may play that shot over mid-off with immense horsepower,   but it takes a lot to earn humility !! It takes a lot to be GOD . It takes a lot to be Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.

 

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स्थानांतरण

. Thursday, October 3, 2013

जी तीन  हफ्ते हो गए हमें हैदराबाद आये हुए !!

पुणे से हैदराबाद आने का निर्णय इतना आसान नहीं था . सत साल हो गए थे पुणे में रहते हुए . अब तो मराठी समझ भी लेते  था और ट्रैफिक पुलिस के हाथ से लाइसेंस बचाने लायक बोल भी लेते था . कॉर्पोरेट टर्म्स में मुझे आप 'fast learner' भी कह सकते हैं ! खैर पुणे में अपने कमरे की बक्कोन्य में चाय की चुस्कियों के बीच शाम व्यतीत करने का मज़ा ही कुछ और था !! ऑटो वाले थोड़े टेढ़े थे पर एक बार से प्यार से बोल दीजिये  'काय  भाऊ ' वोह भी प्यार से मान जाते थे. कम से कम मीटर से तो चलते थे !! वडा पाव मुझे कभी पसंद नहीं आया पर पोहा और चाय की आदत भी मुझे वहीँ लगी ! पश्चिमीकरण के बावजूद पेठ वाले हिस्से में आज भी पुरानी सभ्यता की झलक मिल ही जाती थी !

और हैदराबाद जी इस शहर की अपनी बात है ! लोग काफी 'lite' है. रात में अपने स्पीकर्स पे गाने सुन ने पे कोई कुछ नहीं बोलता ! शायद सब चिल्ल लोग हैं यहाँ ! ऑटो वालों का थोडा लोड है ! मीटर से चलना ये पसंद नहीं करते और कयिओं में मीटर तो है ही नहीं ! रेट सुन के तो गुडगाँव के ऑटो वाले शर्मा जाए ! पर १० - १५  मिनट की खित पिट के बाद मान जाते हैं .

फिलहाल के लिए इतना ही !! थोड़ी पढाई कर लेते हैं

to be contiued

 

The story of unknown

. Monday, September 30, 2013

We make a law and then we find loopholes in it and then we use it to serve our own purpose.

By law if the amount donated to a political party is below INR 20,000, they need not reveal the source of the funds. Three quarter of the funds garnered by them in recent years fall into this category.

The analysis reveals that known donors including electoral trusts accounted for only a fraction of the total income of these parties totalling Rs 4,895.96 crores during this period. After taking into account income from other known sources such as sale of assets, membership fees, bank interest, sale of publications, party levy, sale of coupons etc, about three-quarters of their income fell into the 'unknown' category.

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"Since a very large percent of the income of political parties cannot be traced to the original donor, full details of all donors should be made available for public scrutiny under the RTI. Some countries where this is done include Bhutan, Nepal, Germany, France, Italy, Brazil, Bulgaria, the US and Japan. In none of these countries is it possible for 75 per cent of the source of funds to be unknown, but at present it is so in India," said an ADR statement.

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The Stockholm‐based International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) had stated, "India is … among a mere 10 per cent of countries in the world to allow either political parties or candidates to receive anonymous donations’.

Six electoral trusts had made contributions totalling Rs 105.86 crores - mostly to the Congress (I) and BJP - during this period: General Electoral Trust of the Aditya Birla Group, Electoral Trust of Tata Sons, Bharti Electoral Trust of Bharti Enterprises, Satya Electoral Trust, Harmony Electoral Trust and Corporate Electoral Trust.

Source: The Hindu

Pursuit of Batman

. Thursday, September 26, 2013

The day Ben Affleck was announced to play Batman in the next Man of Steel movie, the web was and still is buzzing with disbelief and outrage. Everyone is imagining that the vulnerable, conflicted yet strong character of Bruce Wayne/Batman played to a tee by Christian Bale for the past 8 years will be ruined by Ben Affleck. The actor has done a fine job in dramas such as Argo, State of Play, The Sum of All Fears and Reindeer Games amongst others; yet his performances have been nowhere close to the acting prowess required for Christopher Nolan's Batman, which made the earlier Batman movies of Michael Keaton, George Clooney and Val Kilmer a bad memory. Christian Bale has done stellar performances in movies like The Machinist and Rescue Dawn where he has played dark, conflicted and cerebral characters who profoundly exemplify the human struggle for survival, redemption and enlightenment. That is why he was the perfect choice for Batman and Bruce Wayne, and the world has come to revere him and Christopher Nolan for giving the caped crusader the much needed makeover, keeping the character true to his animated avatar which the world has loved for decades.

Ben Affleck's first attempt to play a superhero was in 2003 when he donned the mask of Dare Devil. The movie was a major flop and Affleck retreated from experimenting with roles. Since then, he is an actor made famous by his wise cracking Boston accent and his entertaining cameos in a range of comedy movies. Unfortunately for him, despite his resume in dramas, that is the template people attach to him. To Batman fans, it would look completely out of place for such an actor to play the Dark Knight. The scenarios running in the minds of fans is of a Batman and Bruce Wayne with a twangy Boston accent using terms like 'fegget bout it' and 'faacking idiot', which would cause a mass exodus from screens across the world come summer 2015.

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Ben Affleck needs to completely transform his image to play Batman. What made Heath Ledger - the blonde haired, good looking kid from the teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You turn into the ground breaking character of the Joker in The Dark Knight - a complete transformation. His good looks were masked by makeup and scars, blonde hair dyed green and along with the voice, the attitude, and the mannerisms, nobody could even recognize that Heath Ledger was the Joker. Similarly, what made Hugh Grant from Notting Hill, a blood thirsty cannibal in Cloud Atlas? He covered his face with makeup resembling blood and mud, got long nasty dreadlocks for hair, wore jewelry made of human parts and most importantly - never opened his mouth to deliver a dialogue throughout the role. Can you imagine Hugh Grant sounding like a menacing cannibal? For Affleck, it won't be as simple as using a lot of make up. Ben

Affleck has proven himself as an A list director. Gone Baby Gone, Argo, The Town were all great films with compelling and poignant visual narratives. After the disaster of Dare Devil 10 years ago, playing Batman and Bruce Wayne will be the ultimate test of his acting prowess. Batman fans all over the world continue to be skeptical whether Affleck can match or even surpass the legacy of Christian Bale (and are also wondering why Bale didn't accept the $50 million offered to him for reprising the role of Batman). With the high expectations riding on this movie, Affleck has some tough months ahead of him to physically and mentally prepare himself for the role. If he pulls it off, he will be the hero of the 'Nerdosphere' because despite all our scepticism, Batman fans around the world want to be proven wrong. After so many years we will get to witness a Superman-Batman live action movie, something thought only possible in the animated world. Ben Affleck should know that behind all our sneering and criticism, we are cheering him on to deliver us the Batman of the last 8 years and make Man of Steel 2 a cinematic experience that we will never forget.

Source - IBNLive

The Barber Paradox

. Thursday, August 22, 2013

barber The Barber paradox is attributed to the British philosopher Bertrand Russell. It highlights a fundamental problem in mathematics, exposing an inconsistency in the basic principles on which mathematics is founded. The barber paradox asks us to consider the following situation:

“In a village, the barber shaves everyone who does not shave himself, but no one else.”

The question that prompts the paradox is this: Who shaves the barber?

No matter how we try to answer this question, we get into trouble.

Scenario 1:

If we say that the barber shaves himself, then we get into trouble. The barber shaves only those who do not shave themselves, so if he shaves himself then he doesn’t shave himself, which is self-contradictory.

Scenario 2:

If we say that the barber does not shave himself, then problems also arise. The barber shaves everyone who does not shave himself, so if he doesn’t shave himself then he shaves himself, which is again absurd.

Clever One:

Even if we try to get clever, saying that the barber is a woman, we do not evade the paradox. If the barber is a woman, then she either shaves herself (and so is one of the people not shaved by the barber), or does not shave herself (and so is one of the people shaved by the barber).

Both cases, then, are impossible; the barber can neither shave himself nor not shave himself. And hence the question still remains ‘Who shaves the barber?’ is unanswerable.

Ship of Theseus

. Sunday, August 18, 2013

The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus’ paradox, is a paradox that raises the question of whether an object which has had all its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. Theseus paradox questions the very own existence of identity. Theseus is remembered in Greek mythology as the slayer of the Minotaur. For years, the Athenians had been sending sacrifices to be given to the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull beast who inhabited the labyrinth of Knossos. One year, Theseus braved the labyrinth, and killed the Minotaur.

The paradox was first raised in Greek legend as reported by Plutarch,

"The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, in so much that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same."

—Plutarch, Theseus

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Let me try to put these into simple words as 2 scenarios

Scenarios 1:

The ship in which Theseus returned was long preserved. As parts of the ship needed repair, it was rebuilt plank by plank. Suppose that, eventually, every plank was replaced; would it still have been the same ship? A strong case can be made for saying that it would have been: When the first plank was replaced, the ship would still have been Theseus’ ship. When the second was replaced, the ship would still have been Theseus’ ship. Changing a single plank can never turn one ship into another. Even when every plank had been replaced, then, and no part of the original ship remained, it would still have been Theseus’ ship.

Scenario 2:

Suppose, though, that each of the planks removed from Theseus’ ship was restored, and that these planks were then recombined to once again form a ship. Would this have been Theseus’ ship? Again, a strong case can be made for saying that it would have been: this ship would have had precisely the same parts as Theseus’ ship, arranged in precisely the same way. If this happened, then, then it would seem that Theseus had returned from Knossos in two ships. First, there would have been Theseus’ ship that has had each of its parts replaced one by one. Second, there would have been Theseus’ ship that had been dismantled, restored, and then reassembled. Each of them would have been Theseus’ ship.

But the bigger question is - “Theseus, though, sailed in only one ship. Which one?”

So why suddenly coming to this logical paradox on Sunday Noon. Last Night I watched Ship of Theseus. Anand Gandhi’s work is a simulating work of cinema art.  A blind but superb photographer, an ailing monk fighting for animal rights and a stock broker who has got a kidney transplant done are three characters whose stories, when woven in a single thread, can be referred to as ‘Ship of Theseus’. A debut vehicle of Anand Gandhi, this film is strictly for a niche audience for a fact that it has been kept clear from any usual Bollywood paraphernalia that defines commercial cinema. To know any more than this you need to visit a screen and watch it.

Down Under:

. Thursday, July 18, 2013

Ok I was on a break from blogging business. Work had been too hectic these days. Nevertheless now that I am on a vacation, time to put something on the page.

Recently I had a chance to visit Sydney. Though the visit was purely business (i mean it in the strict sense) I got some chance to see the city around and do some kind of random walks by the street and of course the visit to Manly island just brushed away all the hectic work week bruises.

I was there in the first week of June and apparently it was winter. The city welcomed me with a fresh sense of air and rain. Yes that was supposed to be a break from my fuck shit life in Pune.

The site of the first British colony in Australia, Sydney was established in 1788 at Sydney Cove by Arthur Phillip, commodore of the First Fleet, as a penal colony.[5] The city is built on hills surrounding Port Jackson which is commonly known as Sydney Harbour, where the iconic Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge feature prominently. The hinterland of the metropolitan area is surrounded by national parks, and the coastal regions feature many bays, rivers, inlets and beaches including the famous Bondi Beach and Manly Beach. Within the city are many notable parks, including Hyde Park and the Royal Botanic Gardens.

The above mentioned information can be referred back to Wikipedia and moreover I do not want to bore the Sydney note with my business experience so I will straight away share some pictures.

The Sydney Street in Rains

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Darling Harbor

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Sydney Opera House

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Manly Beach

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The City by the Manly Beach

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The Dark Side

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The Famous Harbor Bridge

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Before and After

. Thursday, June 20, 2013

Well we say a lot of stuff when it comes to iPhone. We condemn apple for it’s look alike to android and over priced gadgets, but the truth is it has truly revolutionized the way we used our cell phone. I find the comparison analogous to that of branded medicines vs generics. Branded medicines takes almost 10 years of research ,clinical trials and intense process before the commercial team comes into picture and it starts minting money. In a parallel universe there is generic drugs which are reverse engineered molecules of the branded drugs. They are cheap, widely available.

This picture here sums up how big an effect the iPhone had had.

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