I have referred to the UX of a banana reasonably often on Twitter. But I think I have not said enough, in context. I have a very special admiration for the whole of the banana species given how extraordinarily it puts itself…

Recently, I have seen several Malayalam films on OTT channels like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Zee5. While watching the Malayalam film Android Kunjappan Ver.5.25 on Prime Video recently, a thought struck me. The film was running in theaters in Bengaluru recently…

Google has been granted a patent to make its chatbots use more empathy during its interactions with humans, on December 24, 2019. The patent number 10515635 is about “Forming chatbot output based on user state”. The idea is for chatbots to “achieve…

Four different products/services that you could buy to own for longer periods of time, now on a sharing or aggregated model! That these products/services are available on such a model tells a lot about the Indian start-up scene, though, to be fair,…

I stumbled upon 3 recent instances of national brands localizing their communication. All 3 are mighty impressive, in the face of many national brands still assuming that Hindi and English text, in all editions, is good enough. BYJU’s goes one step ahead…

Since I track new Indian film music across languages, I watch and listen to a lot of new music on YouTube and JioSaavn. From what I have seen and observed so far, the upcoming Telugu film, Ala Vaikunthapurramulo, starring Allu Arjun, has…