1918 Pandemic Great Influenza 1918 was the year of the great influenza which spread all over the world leading to estimated death of 50 million people worldwide and of this the country that was most affected was India that had alteast one-fifth of this death toll. In the history of world of pandemics there are only two which have taken more lives than this pandemic. The plague of Justinian that lasted for fifty years around AD 542 killed 100 million…
Toy Industry Mattel owns Fisher Price and if you go to a toy shop or online the products are mostly from this company if one needs a good quality options. All others are kind of knock off of the product from there and its very easy to see a quality difference. Whatever the quality of product all products are mostly “Made In China” probably 95% of them. Are these really complicated ones and does it need lot of R&D, the…
I was heading out to a place called Aurangabad in Bihar and nearest Airport was Bodh Gaya. Now I had about 2-3 hours in my hand as this trip was a real quick one. But I knew that I can’t miss going to the tree where Siddhartha became Buddha and I have to say it was worth the time. All this was a long time back in the month of February when the world was very different and nobody could…
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…
Do you need a 5G phone in India
The Incident Picture this. You are in a completely new country for a week and went out to a barbeque restaurant to eat some food. You get a table squeezed in a corner. On another table complete strangers from Germany, Japan and US are having their food. One of them just starts a conversation and basic usual stuff of introductions, where and how. About half an hour later these folks on the table start leaving and one of them just…
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…
How I got my first bike? I lived in a small town called Boleng tucked away in Arunachal Pradesh where I learnt cycling on a patch of road of less than 500m which was not going up and down like every other road did. My dad taught me riding a bike when I was in 9th standard. When I came to Bangalore after college I was very keen to get a bike and was planning to buy Bajaj Avenger due…
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…
I remember, in the year of 1998 while going to Miao to visit some family friends while passing Margherita there was a board calling out Stilwell Road. From that point of time it remained on the back of my mind. The Books Recently I was reading a travel book “Land of Dawnlit Mountains” by Antonia Bolingbroke Kent, a British journalist who went on to solo bike trip on Hero Impulse throughout Arunachal Pradesh. It brought my memories fresh and pushed…