The revolution…
is being televised. It is also being blogged about. A primer on why, if one has dictatorial ambitions, one needs to be much, much smarter than the people one wishes to rule; and to continue to remain a...
View ArticleDemocracy 2.0?
The term ‘Web 2.0′ has been in use for over 5 years now, although there is some – irrelevant in my view – dispute about who first coined it. The web as we knew it in the 1990s is often, … Continue...
View ArticleA Passage To India (2010 ed) and the other R-word
When EM Forster wrote A Passage To India, the Indo-British relationship was one of the ruler and the ruled, of imbalances in power. Things are different now in 2010. Britain lags behind and grapples...
View ArticleDigital (and the) luxury consumers
The web, as I see it, is Ginger Rogers to the world’s Fred Astaire. Just as she did everything he did, but backwards and in high heels, the web does/ has everything the world does/ has but visibly,...
View ArticleThe design challenge called Indian traffic [2]
An earlier, admittedly ranty post documented the weirdness that is Indian traffic. Though it focused more on vehicular traffic than on pedestrians, any good traffic system design should enable peaceful...
View ArticleLiving in “interesting times”
Would you rather be a dog in peaceful times? Or a human in chaotic times? When asked this, most people of course pick “human in chaotic times”. But when offered to pick one of two — risk or uncertainty...
View ArticleThe medium is the message
President Obama wrote a piece on Feminism for Glamour magazine. Curious minds want to know why that specific magazine. Here is whom the magazine is for, according to its owner Conde Nast: “Glamour is...
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