Month: April 2015
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Lost
Today evening viswa found a kitten outside in the drain. He brought it to hostel and I thought I’d adopt it. Later Hari went for a tea at lemon tea and found two of its siblings also. We went back to fetch them, but the auto drivers there had thrown them inside the hostel walls…
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Everyone has an Angel and Devil in Them
Last week I had (what I thought was) the rare privilege to have a conversation with Jimmy Wales, the reluctant-to-admit-so co-founder of Wikipedia. It was all a part of the #NetNeutrality campaign to save the Internet. I built a Firefox add-on called Zero Internet which would simulate what happens to a poor mother of three…
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Defending Net Neutrality
I truly believe that the Internet and the Open Web has played and will continue to play a massive role in my learning. That’s why I had started MMC MedFox Club – to spread the Internet love to more medical students. Today that Internet is about to be saved from being damaged by TRAI and…
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Internet Will Become Dramatically Useless in the Near Future, Unless What is Said in This Happens
Allow me to introduce you to “net neutrality” if you haven’t heard of it yet. Hindu had an editorial about why it is important yesterday. Net Neutrality is the concept that all data traffic on the Internet should be considered equal. There shall be no discrimination. So, say, if you pay for 1MBps Internet, your…
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Free and Open-Source Software
Imagine you discovered how to make a delicious cake. You are the only person in the world who knows how to make it. It is so tasty that you could make a fortune selling it. What would you do? If the first thought that came to your mind is to start a bakery and make…
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Cochlear Herniation of Brain
Today is a holiday. Tomorrow Kreida'15 starts. The batch organizing it seems to be enthusiastic enough to write 2k12 on every T-shirt, even that of people from other batches. Sobotta atlas of anatomy is a brilliant textbook for anatomy. I had discovered it under the caption of an image in Gray's anatomy. Used that to…