The Ink Spotter

It was only the other day a friend of mine, a desperate “dream home hunter” was venting out his frustration on how he was not able to find the perfect home. I heard him out patiently till he had cooled down a bit and then asked him whether he had heard of GOHF. He got excited and said that he had got his mobile phone and his PS4 at a great price. I rolled my eyes and slowly but firmly phrased the word GOHF, Great Online Home Fest. He was again excited and asked me if Google is having a Home Fest? That would be awesome as he would be getting good deals and he was sure of that. He was bang on target at that J I then sat down and explained to him about the Great Online Home Fest (GOHF), a joint collaboration of Magicbricks, GroupM and Google. Commenced on July 18, 2015, GOHF brings together the finest deals from the finest names of the real estate, home décor and homecare products on a single online platform. Spread over 10 days till July 27, 2015, GOHF w

Did my title confuse you? Were you elated for a few microseconds and then concerned about those really fine prints of the Terms and Conditions? Allow me to present my case on Med**** which has really got me excited, not only because I can get my folks’ medicines on a discounted price but Med**** as a concept per se. Med**** is not your regular e-pharmacy that caters to you directly. It is an online marketplace which somewhat works on the business model of your favourite Amazon, a lead generation platform, Med**** connects both the buyer and the seller. So how does that benefit you as a consumer? Med**** not only provides you with exciting discounts but also helps you locate your nearest Pharmacy from where you can pick your order at one go. Did I hear you say, “I might as well get it from the medical store myself!” Of course, you may, but I hope you have not forgotten those many, many days when you ran from one medical store’s pillar to another medical store’s post just t

Did you know that IoT has been there from the time of Star Trek Original series? Don’t believe me? Remember Captain Kirk points a tricorder at a person or a thing and learns all about the person or the thing? With IoT, say your smartphone can become your tricorder . Now that you have pictured yourself in the Captain’s boots, allow me to walk you through the reality, almost real, of what was once a fantasy. For the uninitiated, the Internet of Things or IoT as it is commonly known as, in the simplest form, would refer to communication between machines. The number of steps you walked today, clearly displayed on your mobile phone, communicated by the smart band you bought the other day is a very basic example of IoT. However, with technological advancements, it is fast becoming a perceptible know-how that can be applied in data centres to gather intelligence on just about anything that can be monitored. Thought to be a recent phenomenon, IoT has been in dev

The other day, during an Alma Mater get-together, there was a long-year-apart awkwardness among a few and just to break the ice we were to shout out our favourite hero. All of them responded with one name or the other, but me. I have for long, been a die-hard fan of Jarvis, the highly advanced computerized AI developed by Tony Stark. It was another thing that I got weird looks from others. Jarvis is Just A Rather Very Intelligent System, which has kept our views about AI on a pinnacle bordering fantasy. I genuinely apologize to break the bubble, but would you believe that you have been encountering AI on a daily basis? The autocorrect function on your MS Word or for that matter on your mobile, which sometimes ends in embarrassing typos is nothing but an artificial intelligence that evolves as and when you type, understanding the patterns and trends. It also, in fact, learns from its earlier errors and can also predict the next word. AI is not as mundane a

DISCLAIMER: This is purely a fictional work and in no way resembles any person, living or dead either in this era or any era for that matter. However in case you think one of the characters resemble someone you know, please do not fidget, run to a system, start a social media signature campaign, and malign my name, just keep it to yourself, for all you know, you may be right ;). On the other hand, however hard you try, you are not able to connect anyone to the characters, RELAX. Just sit back and enjoy the Risings!!! The arrow sometime or the other hits all of us in our lifetime. No, I am not talking about your or my previous birth experiences of being enrolled in Alexander or Asoka’s army to win territories for them. I am talking about this birth, this lifetime, a micro miniscule part of which you are spending reading my story. These arrows, as a matter of fact don’t hurt you, but yes leave a scar when taken out. Some of them fade, some stay back as the rem

I often wonder how a Tennis player feels when s/he throws up the ball for the final serving and lightly hits it with the rim and wins. No, I am not talking about the elation felt by the player. Of course, the player is entitled to it, but have you ever articulated that sound of the tennis ball being served? Roll up your tongue slightly touching the upper palate and release it leisurely – Cluck. Sounds good, right? From advent of the word, people have often spoken and written about exotic places, creatures and events. The very same people must have thought back in time and fondly remembered their reminiscences at least once in their lifetime, if not more and must have let out a long and deep wishful sigh. Nostalgia – there is something exotic about the word, the way it sounds and is pronounced, with the same light serving of the tennis ball. It was only the other day, doing our usual walk-the-talk sessions, a very close friend of mine spoke abou