My Experiments with the Unknown

Few months back, my friend Rajan and I went to a Chinese restaurant, ‘Peking Palace’ in Hyderabad. As we are always curious to taste the unknown, we opted for an item which we haven’t tried until then. We chose ‘Chinese tea’. Contrary to our expectation, our experiment failed. The tea wasn’t appealing to our tongue. Few [...]

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Why 100%?

I have recently gone to a grocery shop to buy few items. I picked the items and about to pay the bill. Suddenly I understood that I have only a five hundred rupees note with me. Though hesitating, I gave it to the cashier. Since the amount I purchased was very low (just Rs.20). He [...]

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People around you

When I was working as a software engineer in Bangalore in 2005, I happened to attend a conference held by Bill Gates. The event was the launch of Microsoft’s product ‘.NET 2005’ After Gates’ spellbinding speech he permitted the audience to ask few questions. The last question asked was ‘What was your advice for the [...]

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Education

Few days’ back I happened to meet a boy who was an NRI returned from US to study in India. He returned as his parents decided to stay in India. He is studying 4th class. I asked him about the differences he saw  in US and Indian system of education.  I am amazed by the insights [...]

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