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Words that travel the world

  • The fetish for everything exotic

    There was a new member in our gated society.. and before you run your wild imagination, that am ogling at some handsome dude or a very rich family that is making sure the rest of the society residents know their worth and respect them (which happens in our society quite often), this is nonetheless a…

  • The Prompt fed world

    Prompt feeding prompt.. prompt leading prompt.. it’s a world of prompts.. one leading into another .. what are we proud of .. it’s not us.. not our grey matter.. it’s somebody ‘s grey matter and that doesn’t matter anymore.. because in the pool of combined grey matter ..nothing is bedazzling anymore.. because what was average…

  • Why the word ‘nostalgia’ would disappear from the dictionary and from marketing books!

    As per Merriam Webster, nostalgia means longing for or thinking fondly of a past time or condition, this word would soon vanish from the dictionary. Well, it’s not difficult to guess. When everything is available at fingertips and a blink away, when and where will you witness nostalgia? You order you get You wish you…

  • Who wants a street named after them?

    I sometimes wonder what’s in a name – if names are powerful, they get a street, pond, road or an entire flyover, depending on how impressive you were either alive or dead. I have been staying in Noida for the last thirty years however none of the roads or streets bear my name. Some people…

  • Creativity in times of war and peace

    Was the world more creative before or after the two World wars ? This thought keeps me awake through the nights as the 21st century’s two ongoing wars hint at a mega war with unimaginable consequences – that humanity will be forced to witness. If world leaders are anticipating it to be a high-tech, high-octane…

  • Ratings trick you, and how

    Picture this – 100 people book tickets for a stand-up comedy show. 40 people were in a bad mood that day due to xyz reason and ended up rating the show as average. The rest of the 60 people rated it from neutral to very good. What happened to the ratings of the show. Well,…

  • Map confusions – because journeys are important

    If someone has been following the Map Wars, apologies, the map confusions off late, they would realize that these are interesting times we are living in. For at least two decades we have been using Google Maps, invariably it lets the traveler reach their desired destination with an error estimate of a very, very lesser…

  • The days of cherishing are over!

    For those who cherished Maggi from childhood to adulthood and the other in-between hoods know it very well that it was never a 2-minute task. It was quicker than the other laborious foods that took way long to cook and that added to the envy of the Nutri-rich foods lying to be picked up. How…

  • The not-so fresh synthesizer

    We are moving into a very different world where nobody talks about freshness of content anymore. A few years ago, when the teachers used to ask the students to summarize the lessons, a few shone, a few struggled and it used to be 10 minutes of critical thinking by the students to give a crisp…

  • Food is not food anymore

    Food is not food anymore, it’s a chemical package that goes into human bodies, so naturally some get affected by it immediately, others take a decade or so to undo what at times can’t be undone. Yes, food, the very source of our lives has been transformed to unimaginable levels and it’s hard for a…