You are playing a game on your phone or your computer. You are given certain tasks, when you complete them as per the set rules, you get rewarded with points. As you complete several tasks, you are sent to the next stage. Things get better. You are finally declared a winner and you feel happy. … Read more
Few pointers: What are the lessons to learn from this?
Students have been asking when the current even semester ends, when exams would commence and when the next odd semester (new academic year) starts. Here’s my take. These are my guesses based on experience. In any case, this is not the official communication from the university. I cannot assure this will happen for sure. So … Read more
I watched Mandela (Tamil) recently on Netflix and it gave a glimpse of the caste politics and violence in Tamil Nadu (a South Indian state). The whole movie is set in a village named “Soorangudi” where the people are divided between two caste lines – North People and South People. The leader of the village … Read more
For Mysoreans, city means the places around KR Circle like – City bus stand, Devaraja Market, Sayyaji Rao Road and D Devaraj Urs road. Whenever Mysoreans went to the city area and were tired doing the shopping in the hot sun or during summers, we would usually hit this place called “Phalamrutha” (phala – fruit. … Read more
Summer is one season where we get a lot of seasonal fruits. Nature made summer hot, but also gave us fruits to naturally keep us cool . Starting with the most revered one – Mango! Some of the other fruits we find during summer – watermelon & musk melon are filled with water. Also, you … Read more
We often hear people saying, “get out of your comfort zone”. These are the same people who believe that nothing good happens if you are doing your life happily without any tensions. Yes, once in a while, it is important to come out of our comfort zones and upgrade ourselves when there is a real … Read more
Think of the times 10-15 years ago. You probably consumed good quality news from standard newspapers like The Hindu and Deccan Herald. If you were keen on entertainment and bollywood, you would be reading Times of India. Times of India was known as a relatively substandard newspaper. Some people referred to it as the “toilet … Read more
Almost 10-15 years ago, I came across the phrase, “anyways” being used by the youngsters. I even remember in one movie Kareena Kapoor saying, “anyways girls…” I remember some Video Jockeys (VJs) from MTV and Channel V saying “anyways”. I felt this was grammatically wrong. But in a few months, this got normalised. But I … Read more
When I first started using the internet, I used to browse through Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Netscape. Netscape was just dying then. And I shifted to Internet Explorer completely. Internet explorer had many issues. One big issue was what we called as “pop up ads”. Pop up ads would literally pop up randomly while you … Read more