It’s about 5 pm on a Wednesday evening and I just woke up. I had a party last night that carried on till the wee hours of the day, pretty good time!. Oh! wait!!! this post is not about the party or my alcoholic preferences, this post is about something more captivating over the past …
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But who is responsible, teachers or students or college?
I am not bragging but i am not happy with our education system. I was out on a recruitment drive 2 weeks back in a so called tier 1 engineering college in Bangalore, India. I expected these final year computer science students to answer these below mentioned questions on web technology but unfortunately most of …
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2014 passed, 2015 welcome!!
Happy New Year to everyone to start with. Year 2014 been amazing in following ways : 1. Joined The New Stack, working on building community & writing occasionally. 2. Sister got married to one of the smartest kid I have met so far in 20+ odd years of my life. 3. Moved to Bangalore after …
Contributing to Open Source
Searching “contributing to open source” throws About 30,100,000 results (0.56 seconds) Now the real question is being an Open Source evangelist, what/how should one proceed when talking about same? I am still from Old school & believe contribution to Open Source comes from inside hence: 1. Telling someone to use Open Source because its virus free …
Why startups abort?
Product market fit: Let’s say you have built an e-commerce product targeting the local market but it has limited internet penetration & online banking close to 0%. What happens to your product? It becomes restricted and misfit in the market you are targeting. Uber changed its payment policy in India because less than 10% of …
It is good to be naked
Past few months been great. I met few amazing people and Twitter got me my life coach Kamal Ravikant & James Altucher. I am writing about being naked, what do I mean by that? 1. Please be as you are. 2. Do not pretend to be someone. 3. Feel inner peace not materialistic one. …
Ibn battuta: The less known, greatest traveler world has ever known.
I am fascinated by achievement of Ibn Battuta, his travel achievement of 7400+ miles. Being a muslim, he traveled most part of the world where Islam was practiced. I am not sure if this was the reason for him not getting credit he deserved by the western historians. This post is not enough about his …
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Disruption in print/TV industry, who will survive?
Few days back I got mail from a colleague of NewsX. He was one of the best journalist & prime anchor for the the news channel that time. After having conversation over Skype he told me a lot of things have changed, people are moving to online space. A lot of new online mediums …
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Things i love about Mumbai.
I stayed in the city for over a year, i agree i was never part of it. People say Mumbai is not for everyone, i have no comment on that. My one year stay has been a mixed feeling & I would like to share the positive side of it. Autowalas: I have traveled & …
Things or two I learnt following James Altucher.
A lot people like Peter Theil is not a big fan of Twitter, everyone has an opinion or belief and we should respect it. About me, I have always been a connector & Twitter is one of the best things happened to me. A few months back a tweet from @jaltucher landed in my timeline, it …
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