Great Indian swine flu saga.

Weekends spend with people glued to the news channels after swine flu started claiming it first victims in India. Panic of the ‘aam admi’ who was denied adequate early testing facilities by the government designated hospitals and clinics. Frustration, chaos and fear for the little ones being adeptly captured and played on primetime news (only [...]

Womens liberation

This is dangerous ground to tread on but i couldn’t resist the revolutionary in me so here goes… There are certain age old realities that i need to pay obeisance to before we venture into talking about womens lib. The human male sub species has made the life of women a living hell denying their [...]

Psycho-Social profile of a ragger.

Recently colleges across India have seen a spurt in cases of ragging in India. I found a very sincere case study and initiative on ragging here. Deriving from my observations about students who rag from my college days I’ve attempted to draw out the socio-economic profile of such a person. There is a clear distinction [...]

Indie Techies are inherently non-collaborative.

What follows is a trend I have noticed from the years of watching the IT crowd in India and their way of work. If you take the vast world of the ‘collaborative internet’ gifted by web 2.0 and analyze the participation/ contribution of the Indian IT crowd we see that they are inherently ‘problem driven’ [...]