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Making subjectivity visible: Sections from my dissertation
Posted on December 31, 2011 | 2 CommentsMy pot belly, being 'rosy complexioned' and other stories from the field. I wrote these pieces in a course on ‘creative non-fiction’ and included them in the dissertation to provide my readers a break from the formal monotony. Sadly, most people remember sections of this from the dissertation, and little else. Such is the life of a doctoral student. -
Must-watch videos on ventriloquism redefined
Posted on December 20, 2011 | No CommentsWe are used ventriloquists doing their routine with a variety of puppets. Here are a few videos that redefine ventriloquism as most of us know it. It is totally awesome. -
Two bizarre gates
Posted on December 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe strangeness of the gate of the Delhi School of Economics compared to an equally bizarre gate in Los Angeles. -
Photosynth of Stanford on a beautiful cloudy day
Posted on November 13, 2011 | No CommentsPanoramic view of one of Stanford using Photosynth software of Microsoft. -
Sex or salt?
Posted on October 26, 2011 | No CommentsFirst attempt at creating a cartoon strip. Click to see full view, if required. -
Gift of the Magi 2.0
Posted on June 22, 2011 | No CommentsO. Henri's Gift of the Magi rewritten in the Web 2.0 age. -
Nothing as entertaining as extremism
Posted on December 13, 2010 | No CommentsIn a world that is deeply worried about extremism I have learned to love it. In fact, there is nothing as entertaining as it is. Whenever I am bored and need a diversion, I find extremism and its close cousins: insanity and craziness, to be extremely reliable means of getting out of my boredom quickly. That’s insane, you must be thinking. Or perhaps not, if have a YouTube view of the world, as I do. All I need to do is to go to YouTube and start typing “extreme” or “insane” or “crazy” and it will give me an assortment... -
Publish and perish
Posted on August 29, 2010 | No CommentsI discovered that the papers that I had written with a lot of hard work were cited only once in the last four years. A note on the academic peril of working hard in writing what will probably be never read by any one. To publish is to perish. Read on. -
Salsa in Madras: Social dance in a conservative city
Posted on September 3, 2009 | No CommentsMadras is one of those conservative cities that likes to keep its boys and girls at a safe distance. To take an example, parents clamour to get their children enrolled in colleges that are rather strict about this, and colleges have responded to this with enthusiasm. One famous college made a rule that girls will sit at the front of the college bus and boys behind and there will be a firewall of teachers in between. To counter this attraction other colleges have come up with separate roads and staircases inside the campus for boys and girls. In this context... -
On being the target of targeted advertisements
Posted on June 7, 2009 | No CommentsThe struggle to hide from the advertiser leads me to trouble
