Overnight Obama

Though the title may sound funny enough, I came across an article this morning which I found quite interesting and is inline with the title of this post. What would you do if you find tomorrow morning that your bank account has been credited about 9.8 billion dollars OR about 49,000 crores. Yes, you read it is correctly, it is FORTY NINE THOUSAND CRORES ONLY.

I know some of you might get giddiness/dizziness/vertigo or what ever in that reeling sensation on seeing such a 12 digit figure. But if you are Mr.Honesty - "Parijath Saha" from Calcutta, you would have directly called up his bank, SBI, to report such a typo error of the bank. Sounds too much, to believe it? Here is the real incident and how it got unfolded with this gentle man - Parijath Saha:

Continue reading →

Venkatesh and Sudden Death Syndrome

Obvious questions on the title goes as follows, I would presume,


1) Who is this Venkatesh we are talking about?

Continue reading →

We eat more water than we drink

As you may have figured out already, this post is related to World Water day as decreed by the United Nations, 22 March, Every year.

Funny as the title of today's blog may sound, it is very true and serious statement that many of failed to realize: "We eat more water than we think".   Let us see why..

Continue reading →

Education Vs. Employability

Today I stumbled upon a recent survey conducted by Aspiring Minds on its statewise employability report. This ironically coinciding with the DOECC and RRB results that got published over last few days, created the curious gap between Education and Employability.

Continue reading →

Why Google Honored Robert Lang?

Recently Google posted the below doodle which was created by Robert Lang, who was an American Scientist and origamist. And as you may notice, the doodle was built around the design of Origamy.

I initially thought Origamy was one another child's play game and wondered why Google to give such an importance but got some interesting things to note that Robert Lang wrote 13 books on Origamy and its scientific applications and about the grandfather of Origamy, Akira Yoshizawa. I am sure you might find this article entertaining as well., hence presenting as such...

Continue reading →

Nexavar deal : Side effects? Cancer treatment burden reduced. Thanks Indian Government!!

This morning, I have seen a good news, atleast for those families caught in the trap of cancer treatments. As subject says, one of the prominant effective cancer-treatment drug namely NEXAVAR, will be sold in the reduced price tag for its 120 tablet pack. The reduction amount is NOT in hundreds but in Lakhs of rupees, thanks to Indian Governments' efforts and legal actions.

To give you a figure of profit for those cancer affected families, this drug so far used to cost about 2.84 Lakhs(0.2 million rupees), but now it is going to cost about 2, 884 Rupees. Yes, you read it correct: From about 3 Lakhs to about 3 thousand rupees. Good news, indeed?? Here is how the story explodes

Continue reading →

What is Daylight Saving time a.k.a DST?

As subject started, the DST a.k.a. Daylight Saving time started effective from today morning(11th March 2012) along with the free gift of Fatigue due to the time shift.

Continue reading →

'kolaveri": viral marketing at its best

As the subject of this post says, this is yet another post I am writing on the same topic on the success of latest viral hit : "why this kolaveri di". The earlier article was totally unrelated but an useful one if you would like to read.

There is lot said and analysis paralyzed about this why this song was rage in the internet with topping cool trends, here is one more set to start with the viral marketing and the basic simple principles that this song could make use of the same.

Continue reading →

Google Play over Google android market

Google Inc., has recently introduced its product called Google Play. Questions arise on what is wrong with the Google Android Marketplace, which the Google is trying to out"play". Here are few quick snapshots you may NOT know about Google play.

Continue reading →

Browser OR Wowser?? Welcome to Rockmelt free download

This morning, I came across a post which talked about the internet browser ratings of recent times and the surprising name was "RockMelt". I initially mis-spelt it to read as Rock Salt and after correcting myself did NOT see any difference on why that name to be.

Continue reading →

Indian Schooling Systems - Perception Vs. Reality

This post, I am writing, when the UPSC results are out in India and incidentally too many references of the schools I have been experiencing today. One with the movie I am currently watching namely Dhoni which talks about the Indian Schooling system where as the other one in family talks that went on when the future planning was on the schooling for my daughter.

When I looked over the net on which of the one, Private OR Public schools, I surprisingly got more inputs which kind of shattered my perception and am sure it would do the same thing to yours as well....

Continue reading →

Need to get rid of a habit?? Read this...

In my casual reading today, I came across an interesting article where a person was talking about how he quit the smoking just by mere understanding of how habits are created and how they work.

                       

His statement goes like this: "when I wanted to quit smoking I understood that the act of smoking wasn't related to any thoughts, people around me or actions preceding the smoking. It's an addiction and the primary motivation is the reward of dopamine in the brain. By understanding ....

Continue reading →