River to River Film Festival

All about the 10th Indian Film Festival at Florence starting this weekend.

Best views of life

A collection of stunning images of life captured through microscopes from the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition. Enjoy!

The REAL social network!

The Facebook story has come to celluloid and with rave reviews to boot but then it is virtual. It cannot match the current unfolding story of a closely networked Indian industry and media. Read and listen.

Italy from the cupola of the space station

                                                                    (courtesy: ESA)

We all saw this coming....

Fed up of the multitude of functions on your cell phone and just want to make calls? Here is the phone of your dreams, complete with a paper phone book and a one-page manual.

Two sides

The stark reality of the Rajasthan village which had its 15 minutes of fame during the US President's visit.

The perils of Cut and Paste!

The editor of the newsmagazine, India Today, (no less!) had to own up and apologize after a plagiarism charge. Regardless of the cop-and-paste supply chain that led to this fiasco, why would an Indian periodical even need to look up an American e-journal, Slate, when writing on a 100% pure Indian phenomenon called Rajanikanth?

The Orator

Whatever may or may not be the gains of the US President's trip to India, the stand out performance was the speech to the Indian Parliament (full text). Incorporating the the thoughts of Gandhi, King, Tagore, Ambedkar, Vivekananda, even our favourite Panchatantra tales, its sweep and significance is unmistakable.

The festival of lights - enjoy!

What is this moaning about?

On the one hand, the American President is about to visit India with the single objective of beefing up job creation. On the other hand, look at the sums spent by individuals in the recent elections to Congress in the name of employment. Some things never add up.

Marco Polo in reverse

China’s state-run Cosco shipping company is leasing Piraeus, the port of Athens. In Italy, Cosco is expanding the port of Naples. Another logistics company  is in talks to build a giant air terminal north of Rome for cargo arriving from China. All this and more here.

The dark side of social networking

Virtual communities cannot replace real people, flesh and blood friends. Getting out and about is more important than networking in cyber space.

Always keep your trusted alarm clock handy

Many people who relied on their iPhone were late for work last Friday. The reason: it did not adjust to daylight savings time. Whatever happened to adjusting the time manually and changing the alarm as required?