Author: akshay
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What Doctors Don’t Get to Study in Medical School by BM Hegde
Disclaimer: I realize that I could be putting myself in great academic danger by publishing this post while studying medicine in the same state of the honoured author. But whoever decides to influence my very open professors and make me fail in my exams, also please read this response by nirmukta to one of his…
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MAA Utsav 13
Unfortunately I won't be attending it this year. Nevertheless, here is the event schedule
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If We Could Start From the End
“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get…
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How Journalism Can and Needs to Change and Adapt to the Web
Internet has made traditional journalism obsolete. But we have not realized it yet. Newspapers in print were limited by space and functionality, which restricted the stories they covered to only those very few important ones and some fresh stories. Today’s first page news would be buried inside the daily tomorrow, and will be forgotten the…
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Men May Now Wear Veils
The law is clear. IPC 354A 1) A man … iv) making sexually coloured remarks, shall be guilty of the offence of sexual harassment. … 3) Any man who commits the offence shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.…
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I am Alive, yet
The paucity in posting was because of two very important things. 1) I got other things to do. Lot of friends, lot of things happening. I will write them down here in no particular order. I got broadband: This happened only about a month ago. And counter-intutively, it didn’t lead me to posting more here…
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6 Things To Do When You Are Stuck In The Elevator With A Girl
For the introverts 1. Check your smartphone. See if someone has left you a message. If not, play “Temple Run 5” or “Angry Birds Lift”. Act, the same way you would when you are confronted with someone you hate, like there is something really interesting happening on your 4 inch display and keep stroking it…
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On Facebook
Facebook is an excellent social networking tool. It has features that makes reconnecting with old friends nostalgic, sharing photos beautiful and staying connected seamless. And that’s where it ends. Facebook is not the best content discovery tool. It can show you news from only those people you know or follow. Technically it can show news…
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Assorted List of Things 20-Something Should Know
This post on Making254movies: 26 Things Every 20-something Should Wish to Know It needs a little restructuring so that we can actually remember it and apply to our lives. First, go read the post. Then, revise it below. To begin with: 2. Invest in yourself. 23. Habits now, will stick till the end. 25. Don’t worry…
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On Disposing Garbage From My Reading List
Up until two months ago, I would have been heading to facebook.com if I ended up in a long queue for chappati at the mess. No, I wouldn't waste a lot of time reading worthless status updates. I'd only click on external links and read articles (which feigned importance). And then, I deactivated my facebook…