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Technology and Parents
Teaching aging parents to use smartphones can be extremely beneficial as well as joyful.
I bought my mother a smartphone when she had no idea how to use it. I was skeptical at first but she started slowly picking up the phonebook, reading SMS and downloading play store apps.

Selling You The Game Of Thrones
Without knowing what kind of entertainment you like, it's hard to sell GoT to you.
I feel the most important reason to watch GoT is this - Just like any classic work in the history, it's becoming a cult and you will see people citing its dialogues, characters, and events everywhere. If you have seen the series, it becomes delightful to understand the context whenever someone quotes GoT.

Leave them alone!
The Sentinelese Tribe that made the news in Nov 2018. The following post is my thoughts on this subject.
I live in Pune, western India which is around 3500 Kms from Andaman Nicobar.
Even it's far, Maharashtra shares a special connection with these Islands. Tours to Andaman are popular amongst the youth as well as the retirees.



Thank you, Uber!
I am thankful to Uber India for the change that they have brought to my city.
Everyone in my hometown Pune, India, is aware of the sorry state of public transportation. Buses are always flooded with people. To make things worse, the autorickshaws had a reputation of duping passengers by charging them the unregulated amount of fairs, denying to go to certain areas in the city, demanding exorbitant money if it's a late night and all this with zero guarantees of safety. Of course, there are some honest people in this profession...

Why do we need Sanskrit today
Sanskrit as most of the languages in the world is almost extinct. There must be a few hundred people who are using it for communication. Then why to learn such a useless language?
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It’s a beautiful, sweet and disciplined language. It has tremendously helped me to clear my diction and pronunciation. Its grammar must be the most logical of all languages.
Languages for me is pure joy and fun. It connects the learner with the cultures.

The one on Hindi Vs Tamil
I am tired of seeing so many northerners accusing the southerners of not knowing the only national language “Hindi”. Worst part is that they believe this lie of Hindi being “the” national language so fiercely that even when they are proven wrong by slamming Wikipedia and other sources on their face, they end up the argument with “well, as a nation we should have a single national language and Hindi is best suited for that”.. a true facepalm moment..

Understanding Son of Sharmaji
What is Son of Sharmaji or "शर्माजी का बेटा"?
Okay, to explain this concept, I will have to keep my political correctness in a corner for a while.
Indian parents, especially in the middle class of the society are by and large very competitive. They compete using their children. The definition of success of their children depends on how the neighbor’s/friend’s/brother’s/acquaintances’ children are doing.

That feeling when you see something amazing for the first time
It's quite uncommon that you see a movie or a series and immediately think to yourself that the actor you just saw performing was a great one.
I have had this feeling quite a few times with some actors. Even though I was watching them for the first time on screen, I was immediately drawn towards their charisma even though these actors sometimes had trivial roles.

Backpacking - Check! How to travel cheap.
I used the following means while traveling solo in Central Europe.
Hostel world dot com. Find a sweet spot by checking price, reviews, and location.
Blabla Car. Cheapest travel option of all. Plus if you get lucky you get to travel with locals who will share their stories and listen to yours.
Flixbus, Studentagency, Polskibus, Postbus. They are crazy cheap bus services and have routes all over.

A story of a snowfall
We are a bunch of snow deprived people.
In 2007 I started working as a software developer in my hometown Pune, India. Not everyone will admit it but being freshly out of college and starting a job in software, means you are halfway through your dream of going abroad and seeing amazing places. Well, at least Facebook (Orkut back in those days) made me believe that.

The one with the Beef Biryani
I accidentally ate beef.
I once was traveling around south Karnataka, India with my friend Omkar, Martin and Kelly - exchange students who were from England.

Grandma and the Dr. Pandurang Kumbhar Clinic at Nagar-Munnoli
This post is a reference to my review on Google Maps. I couldn't post it all there because of the size limit there. I hope that this review helps people who want to take their loved ones to Dr. Kumbhar's clinic. Original post date - January 2018

Witnessing history as it happens.
Saturday, 3rd September 2016.
A small dot on the world map. It's been a few weeks since I've arrived in Singapore. I must have heard about Singapore first time while my history lessons. The place where Subhash Chandra Bose took command of the Indian National Army.
In later years I heard more and more about this small dot. Most of it from my friends who had been here. Also, my mother visited Singapore a few years ago during her Thai-Malay-Singapore tour.
I knew that Singapore is a garden city and a financial hub of South East Asia.

Epic Haircut
Haircut in Pune, India at my regular barbershop- Rs. 60 = 90 Cents
Haircut in Kapfenberg, Austria - 20 Euro - So I was told.

"Let's save some money, what worse could happen?" This soliloquy have had me doing things which I sometimes regretted later.

I have informed you thusly
Following is the response to an answer for a question - Why did China invade India in 1962? on Quora.com posted on May 15, 2015. I knew PM's strategies to woe china will not work, so I have informed you thusly - one of my favorite Sheldon Cooper[1] quotes.

First of all, nice to hear from a Chinese. I thought you guys are not allowed to write your opinions freely on the internet. Myth busted.

Hippies On the Plane


"Oh, they are for real!" That was my thought when I met this girl on a flight from Bratislava (Slovakia) to Charleroi (Belgium).

I was always fascinated by the word Hippy. The image of rebellious free souls indulged in their own world and having attitude of a lone warrior against all evils was something which always intrigued me.

Renaissance of Marathi Cinema
It's been almost two weeks since I have watched Sairat. It captured my mind and it's not going anywhere soon. More than the ending, I am now intrigued about the whole Sairat phenomena.

...Nagraj is a living example of such shift of personality. He failed 10th exam twice, was a narcotic addict, had violent past; today, he speaks eloquently about most sensitive issues of mankind. He doesn't just speak but expresses it through his art. He is not just a loner artist deeply hurt with the realities of life, he has made that pain his strength and became one of the most successful personalities of Marathi films.

Gandhiji and Idolization of Heroes
The brave and openhearted king Ram becomes Lord Ram, Shrewd strategist and warrior Krishna becomes Lord Krishna, Humanitarian and benevolent Jesus becomes son of god. Some fly on a winged horse to heaven, some walk on the water, Shivaji's vision and valor is attributed to the divine sword given to him by the goddess and some try to build temple of Dr. Ambedkar - one of the best leaders of 20th century.


Choose something which has useful content as well as Masala in it. By Masala I mean anything which you find interesting.. whatever floats your boat. In most of the cases, it's romance and sex. It's like Game of Thrones.. they have kept the boring part interesting by adding vivid sexual content. The story itself is a piece of art, there is no doubt, but to keep the viewer engaged.. I think you've got my point. As your reading gets refined, you may not need such aids.

Ladies And Gentlemen For Your Consideration..
One of my friend called on Sunday morning, said he wanted me to go along with him for a matrimonial get-together arranged by a social organization.

Usually, the idea of being at social gathering doesn't really stimulate me. But it was my friend and not I who was going to face the crowd there. Situations can be..

Dandeli To Goa Via Doodhsagar
As Sheldon explained this to Raj, some things are only valuable to a possessor because others don't have it[1]. The reason I recalled this dialogue is - only a month after my visit to Tadoba Tiger Reserve, Supreme court of India came up with a verdict by which tourist activities in the core zone of tiger reserves would be ceased completely.[2] That means whatever we saw and experienced inside the Tadoba core zone is now more important to us than ever before. Because we have it and others probably won't see it again. 

Inception
Went to watch Inception today-
On a rainy day with no hope of reaching office in time, the first thing came in my mind was few pending errands, but as I approached E-Square couldn't help and got ticket of Inception 11.45 at about 11.55AM. Sure I lost first 10 minutes, nevertheless the big task is complete now.

With memories of Vanilla Sky which has same concepts, I was hoping that this movie would spare me from further brain damage. Till interval it was more like explaining the background of what I was going to see in the later half.

Half Day Leave, Alaka and Skyline

Skyline? Is that even a movie? When did they release it?
Don't try to stress your brain. This was not on my list too. It's my one of those uncalled-for half day leaves which led me to watch this movie.
Sure I don't need any particular reason to take a half day leave as such, but that day there was a genuine reason.

Stem Cells of Humanity
History became legend and legend became myth… and those things which should not have been forgotten… were lost.
-LOTR.

The tribes of Andman - Nikobar islands are the Stem Cells of Humanity. If anything is going to happen to earth or life of earth due to nuclear war/Global warming/ Asteroid strike etc., forget about saving VIPs and scientists..

Mails to Vlada
This was my mail conversation with a Ukrainian girl whom I contacted on LiveMocha just before beginning of my Russian lessons. Dates- Aug.2009 to Oct.2009. Bottom mail is the first one of this thread and topmost is the most recent.

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