I am no technophobe, though, I have been a technoholic since 1994   when I first purchased a PC, that too a 486DX2 with a measly 4mb of ram, with no HDD. The machine cost me   about Rs. 30000/- or about $600. The OS that time was MS DOS, which needed a FDD every time to boot it up. Needless to say this mean machine, a Hewlett Packard with a Cirrus CPU catered to my everyday task. In no time however I felt the need of a HDD, so I invested a fortune, about $150 for a 640mb drive, an...

Until few years ago I used to often wonder Who Am I? The uniqueness of being an individual is often wondering whether the universe is centered on oneself. Many great thinkers had often been daunted by the question about the cosmic truth. If one considers the uniqueness of oneself one may soon realize they are a mere speck of dust in this huge vacuum of space and void. This realization that you are there just as there are zillions of things which exists in this universe, the realization also d...

I missed out on Andre Agassi’s grand farewell speech at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, as I was in deep slumber in far off India. I would have watched the whole match, hadn’t it be for the time divide. I watched it today in the morning and tears welled out of my eyes. Though tears are hard to come by in this age, but I was crying for Andre. I watched the lad when he started playing tennis as a funky young man with weirdo hairstyle, and cloths, as much as I loved to hate the brash young ...

“can you open multimedia applications like winamp, media player or even think of scripts programmes to run applications like opening IE, typing out URL, browsing web pages, viewing root directories, manage shutdown/suspend / hibernate your PC/Laptop Computer from your Cellphone ? Can you take control of your mobile camera from the computer- shoot pics, stream the picture, locate your phone”, no? but the answer is yes !! Still don’t believe this, then go ahead and read. There are some t...

We do seem to have increasingly become impatient with our elderly parents. In today's society and in this age of medical advancements when one's life expectancy is on the increase, more and more parents find themselves on the threshold of ignominy of finding themselves increasingly being deserted by their children or abandoned to fend for themselves. This is most painful to them, especially if one is a widower. The increasingly eccentric natures, irritating behaviors and childish behaviors of...

The TV news channels today morning were all about the American elections. In far off India where I live, it is being discussed in almost all the major news channels. To the largest democracy in the world, the elections in America is keenly followed. Being the world's most powerful nation, America has a hegemonic interest in India. To us, in India and the rest of the world it is inconsequential whether Bush wins the election or John Kerry is the new president of America. The interest is more o...

[After all the hue and cry over the issueless crusade over a thin line that divides humanity and segregates race, caste and creed over the brink, on issues of an imaginary boundary, there is nothing left now but to pick up the remnants of the flesh torn apart - sew up the flesh - gather up the shreds of faceless corpses -resurrect the deadless souls - listen to the voices of remorse - try not to drive a wedge in the realm of make believe world and the thin boundary of trust in humanity, de...

The other day an ex-colleague of mine, who has just been transferred at my hometown, called me saying he was feeling rather unwell. Like all Good Samaritan, I felt it was my duty to call on him. So, I dropped at his place and enquired him about his health. He was complaining of dizziness. I being the sort of person who had none of a business infringing upon other people’s profession, but would still like to be helpful or would I rather say step in other people’s shoe, tried to diagnose what w...

It is generally said that mariages are made in heaven. But does all marriages are made in heaven? Does we as human being today qualify to be binded in this heavenly institution, when the love we seek and the love we yearn remains ever elusive ? If ever two souls can't come together after marriage, the heavenly avows and blessings of this sacred institution are completely lost in itself. And what about the pains of one of the parent who is left out of sharing and caring of his or her offspring...

I ask this question, because, as a father, I had to live with angst for nearly two years now. It is so difficult for others to understand our emotions as they see a very indifferent attitude in us men, but do they really know what are our agonies, how we feel being left helpless while the mother gains all the sympathy. Do they really ask what goes inside a daddy's mind. Even if we want to shower all our love to the child their is the chasm being driven between the parents, more so widened eve...

I was down and out cast in mood of gloom, I posted my first blog just to let out some steam off my pent up emotions. For some years now I have been having a literary impulse of writing an autobiography about my father. No, he is not a famous personality about which one and all may hark upon. But, to me he is someone who had been very special. A beacon of inspiration for what he was, ‘a self made man’, a man who had achieved not many laurels but achieved enough laurels in our heart to be recko...