Had quite a bad expe­ri­ence with makemytrip.com today. 
I booked a ticket online for a bus to Chen­nai in the morn­ing. After the pay­ment was done, the screen blanked out and I didn’t get a con­fir­ma­tion for my ticket. 
Then I receive an SMS with my book­ing ID and a mes­sage that my credit card had been […]

Started in 2007, this is a series of quar­terly lec­tures this year on sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy and the inter­net in India. The lec­tures, under the ban­ner of the Yahoo! Big Thinkers India series, bring together acad­e­mia, sci­en­tists, the cor­po­rate world and the media.
The speak­ers are acclaimed experts from the Yahoo! Inter­na­tional team. They bring with them the […]

An Aus­tralian woman often described as the world’s old­est blog­ger has died at the age of 108 after post­ing a final mes­sage about her ail­ing health but how she sang “a happy song, as I do every day.”
Not that I want to live to be 108, but I can quite pic­ture myself in my old age, […]

After sev­eral failed attempts at get­ting Air­tel (no ports), Sify (no con­nec­tiv­ity in my area), Hath­way (no response), I finally set­tled on Tata Wi-Max (VSNL) who got back to me very promptly say­ing they could give me a con­nec­tion. Sur­pris­ingly, the folks at TI were super effi­cient. Not only was my con­nec­tion okayed in a […]

Why is this so hard, I am think­ing?
It should be as easy as walk­ing in to the ven­dor, get­ting the infor­ma­tion and then the con­nec­tion.
But if life was that easy, this wouldn’t be India, would it?! 
So here I am, still strug­gling to find a broad­band con­nec­tion at home, after Air­tel can­celled my line because they didn’t […]

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From San Fran­cisco to Bangkok, from Karachi to Toronto, Mum­bai to Ban­ga­lore, Met­blogs are a hyper-local look at what’s going on in the city. Our hand-picked core of regional blog­gers give each site a new […]

I had a few com­plaints from folks not being able to leave com­ments. Appar­ently, the ver­sion of spam karma2 I’m using is not com­pat­i­ble with this tem­plate and so the com­ments were not being accepted.
It’s been fixed now, so please do leave me a com­ment or two so I know it’s work­ing fine :) In […]

After receiv­ing quite a few com­ments and sug­ges­tions, have finally man­aged to give the blog tem­plate a fresh new look — thanks a bunch to the Cyber­scor­pion! It’s been much over­due. 
A few odds and ends might need to be tied up over the next few days. In case you notice any­thing amiss, do drop in […]