“Tend to have” more followers? 1. I do not have the supporting data, and it’s just an empirical observation. 2. It surely is a generalization, and simply focusing on outliers would distract from this curious phenomenon. It’s just that I’ve noticed that an average female Indian twitter account has higher follower : following ratio than that […]
I was just going through the drafts in my blog, and to my pleasant surprise, came across the following one, which was basically meant to be soft copy of my notes to be read on a cell phone. That was year 2008-09. So, publishing this vomitus for the old times’ sake. 🙂 [Yeah, you shouldn’t […]
Now don’t get too carried away by the exclamation mark above in the title! I know the final outcome is quite ordinary, or perhaps even worse. But anyway, I take keen ‘amateur interest’ in listening to music, and am not trained in music in any way. Nor do I even consider myself a good singer. […]
I had never told you before, but whenever you would be with me in public and you would laugh, your laughter would not completely register because I would not know what I would do with the amount of happiness I would feel to know YOU would have laughed. I start feeling very dishonest because I […]
A few Premises Let us start with a few premises (applicable to economies of ‘civilized’ societies): 1. We need goods and services. 2. We get goods and stuff in return of money we pay. 3. (Usually) we get money in return of something we produce (goods and services) that others ‘demand’. 4. Either we must […]
I had started tweeting about this, and thought a slightly more elaborate blog post was in order. Today, my family had traveled to a nearby city in our car, and as nobody in my family is confident enough to drive, we had hired a driver for the purpose. He is not in our regular employment, […]
I replied something to a fellow tweeter, and realized that tweet described one of my prominent traits quite accurately. I thought that would be my apt twitter ‘bio’. And, I reached the field from where I could edit it. Exactly when I was about to use the ruthless backspace on my keyboard to send the […]
This in response to a very narrow aspect of Vidyut’s blog post – Globalization – Brain Drain (click). Expense of education borne by less developed country, while fruits of the person’s service are reaped by developed countries. Today’s outrage on Twitter was the government making it mandatory for doctors going abroad for further education to […]
Today I was talking with Her on the phone, and She was taking particular pleasure in recounting to me a goof up by someone reeking of sheer incompetence. My laughter did resonate with hers, but somehow I, on that particular occasion, did not feel contemptuous of the person in question. On most occasions I would […]
“I realized I’d started thinking of how perfect life could have been had everything been going right, and then I realized that what we have been experiencing, currently are and will be experiencing in the future is too wonderful and making such an assessment on the lines of “could have been” would be unfair and […]
Neglected Serendipity 