UPSC – A history Official UPSC website has a brief history and it is clearly seen that genesis of civil servants in India has colonial hangover like many other government systems. Initially, the board of directors of East India Company nominated the candidates and they were trained in Haileybury College in London. Later after Lord Macaulay’s report merit based modern Civil Service in India was introduced in 1854. For a long time exams were conducted only in London and eligible…
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…
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…
Indian society is somewhat different from societies around the world and a lot goes unspoken in families. Parents normally don’t want to hear anything which is considered “bad” about their children. Mostly young people lead lives of split personality, one which is tuned to what parents want to see and one which is the reality. This story is about me and how my parents caught me red handed with something which is considered not so good by most of the…
For the uninitiated ones “Badhaai Ho” means congratulations in Hindi and many other Indian languages mostly spoken in the northern part of the country. I don’t review movies normally and this review is actually the first one here. Generally I tend to like movies that bring out stories that are local and brings about stories that are not out of this world but one that people can relate to. There were days when such movies were called parallel cinemas which…
Humans have made a huge number of machines from Space Station, Fighter Jets, Aeroplane, Cars, computers, mobile phones, medical instruments like MRI, scanners, ultrasounds, stents and countless more. The technological innovations have grown and there is an amazing story that can be traced back from hunter gatherers to current day metropolises of today. But the most intricate and beautiful machines are not the ones that are created by us. These are ones that are created by nature. At the current…
I had bought a Goqii Fitness Tracker and it was lying for a while unused. I had lost the charger somewhere. So I opened it today and here is a teardown analysis with pictures. I bought it for 2000 rupees and it looks like this GOQii Vital – Colour Display Blood Pressure Monitor with 3 Months Personal Coaching, Adult (Black) The rubber band sits the mechanical in pouch sort of thing. The mechanical casing houses the all the electronics…