Category Archives: Offbeat

2010– An Orwellian Year in Review

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2010 might very well have been the year that we dipped further into an Orwellian nightmare as we lost all sense of privacy and dominion. This passing year we have experienced less privacy than ever before with changing Facebook privacy controls and the independence of the press has been obliterated after the persecution of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

The Social Experiment: Old Skool is Still Cool

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In today’s connected world, have you ever looked back at the times when we had conversations with loved ones face to face, hand in hand or if that wasn’t possible we wrote them hand written letters on hand made paper adorned with hand crafted insignia or memorabilia? Nostalgic isn’t it? Today I’d rather meet people [...]

Internet Monitoring Systems – User’s Privacy at Stake

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“We knew that we had to monitor our enemies. We’ve also come to realise that we need to monitor the people who are monitoring them.” Well, who’s gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?

An online film festival “We Speak, Here”

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An Online Film Festival with over 425+ documentaries and short films sharing the intimate stories on observing, waking, healing, transforming “the self”.

Culture Unplugged: Spirit Enlightened

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Culture Unplugged’s aim is to cater to the innate quest of its audience in seeking cultural understanding and to transform and evolve the social sensibilities.

12 Hottest Geek Girls on Twitter

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“There are criteria that must be met to make a proper geek girl; she must be geeky, she must be a techie, and she must be hot.”

Practical Intelligence

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The world has understood the importance of practical intelligence and its role. Today, employers based their recruitment on the basic skills required to excel and not only on the grades obtained in the analytical tests conducted by the institutions.

Chicken a la Carte

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Everyday, around the world, 25,000 people die of hunger. Some lucky ones live on the refuse of men to survive. What is inspiring is the hope and spirituality that never left this people.

Angry Ringtone for iPhone and others

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A friend, BGhose introduced me to this angry ringtone which he found out from somewhere and this is pretty irritatingly superb. Enjoy

Green Unplugged

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The Laundry Warrior: An Asian warrior assassin finds peace, contentment and perhaps love in a forgotten western town on the edge of the desert but is then faced with…?