A few days ago, the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Colorado, released pictures and data on the receding ice-line of the Arctic sea ice. According to the report, the extent of the sea ice reduced to 4.52 million square kilometers, which, even in layman terms, looks alarming. Environmentalists and industrialists around the world, who are already concerned about the many ill-effects of global warming, are innovating and inventing many new technologies and ideas that may help reduce the emission of green house gases into the atmosphere. I just came across an interesting article..

Well, what should I say? I’ve been rather late in writing a review for a movie that was released about 3 weeks ago. Anyways, nothing has been lost yet, and there are still quite a few million people out there waiting to watch this animation masterpiece. Wall-E is a typical love story, where one can draw parallels with the Indian cinema (or even Titanic!). So, the story is simple. Imagine an Indian cinema where a poor guy falls in love with a rich girl who has to follow a directive, and eventually the girl getting attracted to this poor guy in rags.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguisable from magic” - Arthur C. Clarke. True, isn’t it? I’ve always marvelled at technologies such as the television (TV), computers, cellular phones, portable music gadgets, CD, DVD, Blue-ray, and so on, the list is endless. But never have I wondered about what happens to them, or where they go, when they become kaputt and obsolete. I came across a scientific journal on e-waste where it was mentioned that more than 45 million tonnes of electronic gadgets are discarded worldwide, well, eventually piling…

The results of this experiment would try to find the answers to questions and riddles about our universe. Well, so… this is just an experiment…why is there so much fuss about this thing?

In India, still there are a few million people who look to TVs as general entertainment gadgets that can make you laugh or cry - by watching those good for nothing, anti-social mega-serials. These mega-serials corrupt your mind and make you think like a devil (or think evil?, coz there are good devils and bad devils too). There are exceptions though, but can they become rules!? NO. I would appreciate a lot more programs on sex and sex education, and people spending quite some time on these - may help control AIDS-spread/population explosion to a certain degree - ‘m not kidding!

There are quite a few in my office who own diesel-powered cars and the street price of these cars are close to nine lakh rupees! It’s sad to realize the fact that they will be paying lesser than most of those unfortunate middle-class people who yearned to own a car, putting a major portion of their savings on a good small petrol car. This is the kind of discrepancy that arises in a society that is neither entirely capitalist nor communist. The capitalist oil companies would want the government to…

The best way to start car pooling is among your colleagues. You’ll obviously know who’s coming from the same area as yours, and if you don’t try communicating using the internal messaging medium like corporate instant messenger or mailing groups. This is basically the trust factor, and it works most of the time; a colleague would be more comfortable traveling with you (or vice versa) than traveling with a stranger interested in car pooling. This principle applies very much to women who will not take the risk of commuting with a stranger who had advertised for car pooling.

In India, especially southern India, we’ve more than 320 days of bright sunlight, and most of the solar-driven appliances do not need direct sunlight…

I used to discuss with my dad and also with my friends that Tata would really deserve such praise from the international community if he had striven hard to bring us a cheap car that runs on alternate fuel, which sadly is not the fact. Well, I would say, Nano received just too much praise and exposure that it deserves.

I was just reading an interesting (and funny) article (NDTV.com) about TATA’s Nano and what it means to our billion plus population. The tile of the article is Nano: Firing a billion dreams, and I believe it is pointing to our country’s population. Firstly, more than 25% of the 1 billion are categorized under ‘below poverty line’ and another 25% as ‘middle class’. TATA’s Nano does fire a few million dreams (about 250 million if you consider just the middle class population which is by any terms HUGE!), and according …