History of Twin Cities Belarus and Minsk has been in the news due to widespread unrest due the re-election of Alexander Lukashenko who has been the President of the country from the day the position was instated about 26 years ago on 20th July 1994. Lukashenko is sometimes called Last Dictator of Europe by many european journalists due to his authoritarian rule. Minsk being the Capital city was also in the news recently. Minsk was in the back of my…
Covid-19 has been declared pandemic by WHO quite sometime back. The problem with Covid-19 is it’s easy spread from person to person transmission. The so called Patient 31 of South Korea is a most potent example of this kind transmission. The person who is said to be 60 year old without any history of travel to China got flu like symptoms and was advised for Corona virus test. She seems to have denied going to test for few days and…
There are many life skills that are important and one that is normally not on the top of mind is personal finance. It is sometimes considered “cool” if you are not very sure about your personal finance and one saves on very last day of investment deadline. This post is reflection of what I feel is right way getting started with managing your personal finance. There are lot of young folks who start making money through their salaries and are…
Part 1: October 2009 It was way back in 2010 that I had booked tickets for the play Bikhre Bimb. One of our friends had suggested that we go for a play. I don’t really remember that if that was the first time I was going for a play but it was Vikalp who asked me to book tickets. I have been very always very bad with the roads and that day I had my brother’s bike with me and…
Carpooling in Bangalore and problem of traffic
The alarm goes at 6 am in the morning and Rahul wakes up snoozes the alarm and it again fires up in another 10 mins. But this time he reluctantly gets up. Every weekday morning was more or less the same. Rahul quickly brushes and glances outside his balcony to get a feel of the traffic. The road outside the balcony get clogged in the morning many times and he can’t take his vehicle out from the parking itself. This…
Becoming a father is humbling experience and I realized it first hand when Ira, our daughter came to our life about 4 months ago. A lot of people have told me that becoming father is a experience of a lifetime and changes your life forever. Now this is true for sure as it is nature’s law that all living organisms would like their Genes to be transferred to future generations and mostly written in our genetic program. This article is…
Atul Gawande is a man of many things, an oncologist surgeon, prolific book writer (Checklist Manifesto is one the four books), journalist and recently a CEO of a new age company called Haven formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and J P Morgan Chase. Haven aims to improve healthcare and reduce costs for employees of these three companies. Why Checklists? Today technology has grown by great extents and with internet accessibility, availability has also skyrocketed. Each field has become very complicated…
Disclaimer: I am no expert in the subject and idea is to share a point of view. Any errors & omissions will be graciously accepted and updated swiftly If you want to read up Part 1, I wrote about the Aryan-Dravidian divide sometime back and here is the link if you would like to see that. The world is divided in so many aspects race, religion, region, countries and many more. There is one such divide that I have been…
Color blindness is widespread but the awareness around it isn’t that great. In India color blindness leads to rejection in any defence related jobs be it Army, Air Force or Navy. A color blind is disqualified in mining related jobs as well. Just until last year people with Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) were not allowed to be doctors as per MCI rules. There has been some hearing in Supreme Court to pave the way for students with CVD not to…
Attention Merchants is a book written by Tin Wu, haven’t read the book but liked the idea so much that I was convinced there is something I wanted to write about it. This is my take on the ever growing debate of technology and human lives. The amount of money and time spent of today’s world to gain “Human Attention” is so huge that companies like Google, Facebook and others have become in 10-15 years the huge corporations creating monopolies…
I am a reluctant car driver living in Bangalore, India. Never loved driving or going on a long drive, prefer if it being driven by a friend and me enjoying the ride looking out, probably helping with directions (very bad at it though :-)). I have been driving on and off from 2009 and in these years I would not have clocked more than 15K KMs mileage. That makes it an average of under 2K/year which is not a lot….
I had ordered groceries from Bigbasket sometime last week. The total bill was around 1500 INR. Unfortunately I was away during the scheduled delivery window and was not picking up call of my apartment security thinking a spam call. Bigbasket calls me in and puts the delivery guy on conference call. I requested him to ask the security person if they can leave stuff with him. The security guy agreed and maybe the delivery guy was not very happy and…
The world has not seen a lot of nuclear attack except the one’s at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan near the end of Second World War. Harry S Truman was the President of United States of America at that point of time. After billions of dollar of investment and thousands of hours of research and development, USA had a bomb that was not merely a bomb but weapon of mass destruction which can lead to complete annihilation. The call of…
There are three players on the Indian side Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah who played deciding role in the partition of India, all of them studied law in Britain and came back to serve India. Gandhi left his suits and became Mahatma preaching his non-violent method for fighting British rule, Nehru was the charming man close to Gandhi and Jinnah a rational and intellectual man. Important actors on the British side were Churchill, Atlee, Wavell and Mountbatten. The clamor to independent…