Escapist
How to be an escapist in the all-seeing 24 x 7 internet.
Digital World
The internet and everything it has changed, wrecked, impacted, overthrown, empowered and otherwise touched in our lives. Online communities, self-publishing, blogging, social media, apps, gaming – how these transform who we are. Also my work in this field.
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55 Words: Pot Of Gold
A short tale in 55 words. Her parents say that she was born talking. Then she discovered writingEnglish grammar compositionsStories and poetryLetters and emailsChats and instant messagingSMSes, Orkut scrapsResumes and reports Then she stumbled onto bloggingAnd anonymous postingEven editing and deletingAnd much later, private publishing But silence is yet to…
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Spec-tacularly mad
I have a weakness for men in spectacles. Quite mad for them, in fact. Maybe I associate that with intelligence. Maybe it’s my Electra Syndrome.
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Orkut Woes
Answer just what your heart prompts you. And what the hell is that supposed to mean? That’s supposed to be a fortune, is it???? Sounds like a scrap left behind by one of those sidey characters who have film stars pics on their profiles. Once I had a scrap from…
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Girl Blogger – The Smaller, Louder Half
Today’s Times of India carries a story that the Indian blogger is more likely to be young and male.
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Office Capers – Tech Blunder Chronicles
Today I put my techno-greek foot back in my mouth (again! again! again!) at the office. SNC: Do you know the iRiver?Me: The what river?SNC: Okay, you don’t know it.Me: I didn’t hear you…what river?SNC: The iRiverMe: I don’t know it. What’s that?SNC: Its like the iPod, an MP3 playerSFOS:…
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Invisible Man
The man and I have several themes of conversations running. We do manage to have those despite bad telephone signals along the train routes, mad auto-rickshawalas, terror workplace situations and differences in time zones.
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Bollywood Blogging
I started typing a reply in the comments section of a post and then realised it may as well be a post. So picking up Gaurav’s meme, I’ll add the Bollywood touch. Some filmi characters whose blogs I’d like to have seen: 1. Sambha (as of “Arre o Sambha, kitne…
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Anonymity versus Openness
Is it about whose opinion matters? This weekend I socialised with my colleagues. We went for a movie, we did dinner, we went book-shopping, we went dancing. We enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. We also had some ‘moments of truth’ that could have lead to frank discussions but somehow didn’t. At the…
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Relationships in the new world
I thought I had written everything I could think of, about women and men. Well, perhaps not. I don’t write all that much about relationships. And that’s the whole goddamn can of worms, isn’t it? Well..a new direction for this blog perhaps. I was in conversation with a blogger…those delightful…
