Category: Opinion

There are two kinds of people in the world – those who understand the meaning of the word “science” and those who don’t. This post is about the latter set of people. You know someone has no idea what they are talking about when you hear them say: “Numerology is a science” Even mathematics isn’t…

We have all used and loved Yago’s telegram-bot written in Lua as an extension for Vitaly Valtman’s tg-cli for making funny Telegram bots. But Lua was keeping a lot of people away from making meaningful plugins. Alternate approaches included adding a –json flag to vysheng’s tg-cli and parsing that data or building wholly native APIs…

They say an idle mind is devil’s workshop. A jogger’s mind is god’s workshop then. I’m waking up at 4 am since I had a sweet dream yesterday. Some goons appear outside a hostel. They beat the two securitiy guys up and ask them to go inside, take the mobile phone from every guy sleeping…

Either of Shreyas or Jafar must have invited me to the Task Force meetup, and I got to be a part of the Mozilla India Task Forces. The 2015’s task forces were formed in an event at Bangalore (Lemon Tree hotel, Ulsoor lake) over 7, 8, 9, 10 May, 2015. On 7th and 8th, it…

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…

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…

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…

One of the many things I like in life is talking. I like to discuss things, dissecting events and analyzing situations. It gives me some kind of strange pleasure when there’s clarity in my mind on every way to think about an issue. Say, there is a forward on the IM client that is obviously…

Each day passing, I am turning more and more a feminist. Although I abhor extremism in feminism (I do not think calling every action of a man “sexist” is the right way to achieve gender equality), I cannot overstate the importance of visualizing the routine, systematized discrimination against women based on their gender alone. In…

Morality is a dilemma for many – “What is right for me is not necessarily right for you. Am I right in forcing you to see things my way?” Christopher Hitchens and Shashi Tharoor debate for over an hour in the above video about which is more important – “freedom of speech” or “not hurting…