nineteen till i die

The path I take, the path I make, The dreams I chase, the sky I gaze, The mysteries I solve, the way I evolve, The fun, the spirit, the delight, this life !

I recently stumbled upon a startup, Fonolo – a web-app that lets you skip the phone menus when calling large companies. The need for this kind of an application is completely understandable in a place like US where you have to wait for 15-20 minutes to get to a human being when you call the [...]

Stock investors are information-hungry because it is the percolation of information in the system that can make or break your wealth. But this incident displays that life is not too bad for mis-informed investors either!

Day in and day out, I come across hundreds of people. Had my frustration with dumbness subdued like other emotions do over time, I would not have taken the pains of writing this post. The reason very simply is, there is no dearth of dumbness in the world ! Recently, I made the terrible mistake [...]

I believe this article comes the closest to echoing what 20-something cricket-lovers have in their heart at the present moment. Sachin Tendulkar spoilt us. He commanded that we sit in front of the television sets. He ensured we got late with homework, he took care of our lunch-break discussions. He was not all that much [...]

Forwarding emails is a part of our lives. If sending emails could generate money, the email forward business would be one of the biggest in the world. I know I am talking like Donald Trump, but cannot help, I am an ardent fan of the man! Anyway, this post is not about Mr. Trump or [...]

I think it is time to put on paper the feelings I’ve had inside me for some time now. And given the media attention Mumbai has been getting of late, I cannot think of a better time to write this post. I moved to Mumbai in July last year. I was highly relieved and excited [...]

Dear Rediff Team Being a widely used web portal of good repute, I do not see any reason why you should allow blunders like the following to happen, especially on the homepage! Moreover, earlier, I had observed this. A suffering surfer Pawan Jain

“You’re fired !! “ “You’re hired !!” Do these phrases sound familiar? If the answer is yes, then you are most likely one of the two: A fan of Donald Trump‘s The Apprentice. Related to finance industry. Donald Trump made these words (hired and fired) somewhat common in my life, but at the end of [...]

When I read a web page, I have to have the mouse in my hand, just like when I read a book, I have to have a pencil in my hand ! Though I have almost grown past my latter habit, it is almost impossible to leave the former one. When I am reading a [...]