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Random and pointless short takes 

A customized invite by an auto driver!

April 5, 2012 by Karthik S

I was in Delhi, yesterday, for IndiaSocial 2012. I reached Delhi late on Tuesday night (April 3rd) and was put up at a hotel called Mapple Emerald. Yes, it was ‘Mapple’, and it made me cringe, but the hotel was pretty decent….

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Using the Jesus Tablet for the first time…so late!

April 3, 2012April 3, 2012 by Karthik S

Last week, I got my first iPad – an iPad 2 that I ordered from eBay India. I do own a heavily-used, now-hardly-used iPod 64GB, a 4GB pink iPod mini (wife’s) and an iPod Touch – all these are hardly used now…

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Google’s 2012 Valentine’s Day doodle is actually anti-Google!

February 14, 2012December 29, 2012 by Karthik S

So you must have seen the Google Doodle for today, right? The one for Valentine’s Day. If you haven’t, go to Google.co.in or just see the video below – it’s the same thing. Nice, huh? Smart writing, cutesy and all that. But…

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I’m not talking to you

February 6, 2012February 6, 2012 by Karthik S

More than all the hoopla around Sahara India Parivar withdrawing their support to Indian cricket team, what interested me in yesterday’s lead story in The Times of India is the last sentence. It went, ‘we haven’t received anything in writing from them…

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Twitter’s perplexing I and L misrepresentation problem

February 2, 2012February 2, 2012 by Karthik S

Last night, I noticed some bizarre tweets from Filmfare editor Jitesh Pillai (Itâ??s Pillaai, if you go by his Twitter handle). If you allow me a mild digression, the crux of his tweets is this: â??We scratch all Bollywood stars’ backs even…

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Gowardhan’s Go brand treats Indian customers with respect!

December 29, 2011 by Karthik S

I have been a user of Amul butter and cheese ever since I remember. Who isn’t, in India, really? When Britannia launched its range of butter and cheese, I started trying them for sheer want of new options and then alternated between…

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Social network updates are not life as we live it; they are life as we choose to project it

December 19, 2011January 2, 2014 by Karthik S

Pablo Villa’s post on noted film critic Roger Ebert’s journal seems straight from the heart.If you haven’t read that yet, here it is – Is that all you can do when somebody dies? Tweet? Considering a lot more people have carried similar…

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