At my work I recently started working on a project with a lot of Python and C++ in it. I have never worked on Python before, so I started learning it. I liked it a lot. …

In this post I want to talk about very popular greeting we use — “Happy New Year”. Lately , I came to realize that this greeting is not a well thought one. In fact in my opinion this is also inappropriate way of welcoming a new year!! What is wrong with it? This greeting tells…

Last week my college whatsapp group became active again (after 2 slow weeks). This time discussion was on terrorism and whether it is fair to associate an identity (religion/nationality/gender) with terrorism. Context Discussion started with a forwarded message. It has list of all terrorist organization. All names had a common element…

Context This post is a continuation of previous post . In that post I shared how in an active whatsapp group, suddenly conversation died and reached to zero engagement. Its almost 2 weeks to that event and traffic on that group is still not any where near to earlier level. What caused this ? Its…

Came across a Ghazal which is full of life lessons. I thought of sharing it here. Written by Akhtar Shirani & sung by Ghulam Ali , its full of deep meaning!! Here is lyrics ! मस्ताना पिये जा यूं ही मस्ताना पिये जा: पैमाना तो क्या चिज़ है मैंखाना पिये जा कर गरक मैं-ओ-जाम गम-ए-गर्दिश-ए-अय्यामी अब ऐ दिल-ए-नाकाम तू हकीमाना पिय जा मैं-नोशी के आदाब से आगाह नहीं। तू जिस तरह कहे साकी-ए-मैं खाना पिए जा इस मकर की बस्ती में है मस्ती ही से हस्ती दीवाना बन और बा दिल-ए-दिवाना पिए जा

Messaging apps influence our lives big time. Most of us are dependent on them for communicating for business and personal use cases. I have keen interest in this space and I like analyzing usages pattern of people participating in messaging apps. In this series of posts I want to share…

Rakhi is a very popular festival in India. It is celebrated usually in August (last day of the Hindu lunar calendar month of Shraavana). In this small post I am writing about “popular meaning” of rakhi and what thoughts comes to my mind when I think about it. Observation Context Every festival…

I bought my daughter a big map of USA last week. And a couple of day later she asked me “What is Gulf of Mexico ?”. I said “it is just like SF Bay, a lot water surrounded by land.” She asked again, “ why it is called Gulf (and not bay) ?” :-( I had no idea. So I promised her that I will read. So I investigated it today. I learned that my answer was partially true. Surrounded by land is true , but there are some significant differences.

Continuing with my effort on staying curious and investigative, today I learned about Raptors. I live a place where you can see a particular type of raptor a lot. Talking with locals I know that this magnificent bird is called — “Red Tail Hawk”. Its very easy to see them…