When I got my first digital camera, I made sure that it was a model that could record video with audio (a rarity in my budget many years ago) and conjured a little dream – to make my own digital movies. That dream is still unfulfilled. But the motley filmmakers from Maharashtra’s Malegaon are no [...]
Utterly, butterly, ignoramus! I am a sucker for anniversaries. They give an opportunity to celebrate something that you want to and the occasion guarantees that readers notice (and also appreciate) your celebration. Was a bit surprised to find that the Indian media was marking the 50th anniversary of the Amul moppet, whereas her golden jubilee [...]
64 years later, Shillong is virtually unrecognisable. I could only recognise the Governor House on Bivar Road, then known as Government House, the characteristic Ward’s Lake and the Assembly House (destroyed in a fire on January 9, 2001). These photographs from Government of India’s Photo Division were taken when Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was on a [...]
Idea Cellular tom-toms it’s ‘ideas’ through multi-crore advertising campaigns. If only the agency that devised those ideas had also added some commonsense for their client at a nominal charge. It appears that you cannot dial the emergency number 100 (Police Control Room number) from a prepaid Idea connection, as my wife unpleasantly discovered when she [...]
Wondering if we can sue ISPs and government agencies for restricting access to legitimate content. If the courts can be approached to restrict content why not to remove the restrictions and make the people responsible pay for the inconvenience? We have seen a number of variants of the vague notices that ISPs display when users [...]