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Much has been said and written about how peaceful the protest around Jallikattu was/is, in Tamil Nadu. It is quite an eye opener that this large a protest, started almost spontaneously, across multiple cities, has been incident-free in every possible way. Many…
The more science fiction I read (and I don’t read anything else consciously, generally, when it comes to books), the more I ponder deeply about speciesism. You should Google or Wiki Speciesism if you don’t know what it means. In a nutshell,…
The following dialog is from Season 4, Episode 8 of House of Cards: NSA agent 1: Can you walk us through how the filtering algorithms work? Aidan: We’ll take firearms, for instance. If we start with everyone who legally owns a gun,…
I had good fun moderating this panel for Social Media Week, Bangalore 2016. It features, as panelists, Kiruba Shankar (of kiruba.com fame), Nandita Iyer (of Saffrontrail fame) and Nivedith Gajapathy (of Tech Travel Eat Repeat fame).
Originally published in . Back in 2008, during the early days of social media—Twitter was just 2 years old and Facebook had opened its membership to anyone only in 2006—I recall suggesting to a marketing head of the Indian arm of an…
How long will it be before a big FMCG brand asks people to find virtual product packs floating at a busy railway station, to win them for real (sent to them via courier)? How long will it be before WWF creates a…
It was Taran Adarsh’s birthday yesterday. He received 175 birthday cards! Now, interestingly, I do not live in the same house as Taran. I don’t even work in the same office as Taran. But I do know he got 175 birthday cards….