‘My life in Full: Work Family and Our Future’ is a memoir by Indra Nooyi, who led PepsiCo – a multinational snacks and beverages company, for 12 years. Nooyi is the first woman of color to head a Fortune 50 company. In the 320 pages long book, Indra…
Book Review: ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding
Title: Lord of the Flies Author: William Golding Genre: Fiction Novel Main Characters: Ralph, Piggy, Jack, Simon, Roger, Samneric Publisher: A&A Publisher (India) First Publication: 1954 (Worldwide); 2013 (India) Language: English Lord of the Flies is a classic piece of literature by British novelist William Golding who received the Nobel…
Life Without WhatsApp
In May-2021, while India was recovering from the second wave of Chinese Coronavirus, social media had started discussing the legal battle between the Government of India and tech companies like WhatsApp and Twitter. Similar debates happened at the beginning of the year. The role of big tech companies in…
Coding for Kids: A new craze among Indian parents after ‘English-medium schooling’
Chintu has become a household name since a start-up funded by large angel investors started bombarding coding for kid’s advertisement in Indian digital and online media. I was surprised to see these kid-coding start-ups becoming success stories and hence decided to write about it. The tremendous response to these…
१८०० रुपयांची आकडेमोड कि जगण्याची धडपड?
सध्या एका कामवाल्या काकूंचा १८०० रुपये हिशोबाचा व्हिडिओ सोशल मीडियावर चांगलाच फिरतोय. बऱ्याच लोकांना हा व्हिडिओ मजेशीर वाटला. काहीजणांनी तर कामवाल्या काकूंच्या समर्थनार्थ सरकारने १८०० रुपयांची नोट बाजारात आणावी म्हणून प्रतिक्रियात्मक व्हिडिओ सुद्धा बनवले. खरतर माझ्याकडून तो व्हिडिओ संपूर्ण बघवला नाही. त्या काकू ज्या तळमळतेने त्यांची बाजू मांडत होत्या…
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell: Explore 20th-century in stories
I came across ‘Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking’ from my Ph.D. supervisor. He suggested a few books to read in my leisure time. The reason I picked Blink over other books is because of its title! I was curious to know what does the author means by…
My Experiments with Sleep
It has been more than 4 months since I have written something on this blog. My apologies. I was preparing for Ph.D. admissions in the month of May. I joined Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay for my Ph.D. program. The last 2 months were packed with course work…
Story of My Virtual Mumbai City From Cities Skylines
I have been playing Cities Skylines for more than 2 years. Like most of the Cities players, I started with Sim City and switched to Cities: Skylines because of its customization features. The mods, scenarios, maps, assets are fabulous. The inventory of assets and mods have grown rapidly over…
Talks on ‘Section 377’ and ‘Data Privacy’ at IIT Bombay
The year 2019 has been very delightful for me. While the first week was full of discussions with my friends from the solar fraternity, the second week was indeed more enlightening. I got an opportunity to attend 3 talks and 1 panel discussion on different socio-technical topics. The…
Who Will Cry When You Die? My favorite quotes
Last week, I completed this wonderful book named ‘Who will cry when you die’ by Robin Sharma. The book is famous among frequent readers and has inspired millions of people in the world. Now that I have read it, I regret for not picking it up in…