Category Better Citizen

The forgotten games of India

Colonialism and globalization have affected us in all kinds of ways. And one of the ways is that in popular culture all the games we talk about is originally not the games that our people played over centuries. Now I…

बिटकॉइन और अन्य क्रिप्टोकरेन्सी

मैं कई दिनों से सोच रहा था की हिंदी में लिखता हूँ पर ऐसा कोई विषय नहीं सूझ रहा था | पिचले कई दिनों से मेरे मन में बिटकॉइन और क्रीटकर्रेंसी को लेकर जागरूकता फ़ैलाने की सोच थी पर अंग्रेजी…

WazirX Heist and Lazarus Group

Cryptocurrency and Exchange like WazirX If you are looking for a primer on Bitcoin, I wrote this years back. Feel free to check it out. Recently on July 18 2024 WazirX, an Indian Crypto Exchange, was hacked and there was…

Bangaluru Hero Stones or the Veeragallu

What really is Old Bengaluru? History of Bengaluru for many starts with Kempegowda and there is no doubt Kempegowda clan (Yelahanka Nadaprabhus) played a major role in 16th century building of city of Bengaluru. But the history of Bengaluru goes…

Read Indian!

I write in English probably because of ease of the qwerty keyboard and also I read in English most of the times. But for long I wanted to change that. So my friends this is a request for all people…

Are you exercised about exercise?

Not Exercising is normal Personally I hate going to a gym and have wondered is this really something humans like doing. Exercise as we know is relatively new phenomena and probably started less than 50 years ago when humans started …

The Panchatantra Project

Panchatantra – A project  It was sometime during the Covid a thought came to my mind about starting a Podcast. I have been a listener to Podcast for a while. It was probably a lost love that I rediscovered again.…

Is QWERTY Keyboard best?

QWERTY For the story of Qwerty keyboards, we will have to go back 150 years to late 1880 when one Mr. Christopher Latham Sholes was tinkering in his lab in Milwaukee to develop the prototype for typewriters.  Now the legend…

100th Post on Shabdh

100th Post I started to write on a blog 10 years back and registered shabdh.com about 8 years back. Its my humble attempt to share something useful or interesting. Since this is somewhat like a milestone for me I thought…

The Calculus Affair

Calculus – A little Personal Background Calculus was introduced to us in India in Plus 1 is the CBSE curriculum (we have a 10 +2 system, where one spends 12 years in School + 3 years in Nursery, KG1/2 before…