Can a Robot be creative?

A disclaimer: This article is written by a layman who misunderstands and is misunderstood often. Robots have more often than not, been subjects of speculative fiction. So much to an extent that, every science fiction writer worth his salt has written at least one story/novel/article featuring robots. No other subject, except perhaps ‘Interstellar travel’, […]

Why India works?

I firmly believe that even if a craven despot becomes the leader of the nation tomorrow, he won’t be able to do a lasting damage to our society. Mainly because the common folks have become impatient. They have become all the more interested in the specifics of what is being offered and are not rigidly […]

AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL THE OPEN LETTER WRITERS SET AGAINST MODI

This is to tell you from the onset, that I am a bhakt. Personally, I hate the terminology as it pits me as a saffron-tinged rustic Hindu hooligan, but for taxonomic purposes, you can classify me as Moditus Admirus, known otherwise as Bhakt. So now that you have already wrinkled your nose and would be […]

How a recourse to Content Writing spelled my Redemption?

It’s not that difficult to decide whether you are a hack or a writer, when you mechanically, monotonously and quite without a definitive surge of emotions, string together words so that they make cohesive sense as a whole, syntactically or otherwise, just that and nothing more, without giving a damn about what you have written, […]

Belong

Belong? Do I belong to the shaitan of my city? The one with the divine proclamation to sin. The one who maintains a balance of justice, with the sharp of his blade, The one who tots the gun and bares his teeth, If I fail to toe the line, set by him. A rigged puppet […]

The Other Universe

I have had an interesting childhood. Having never been interested in sports overmuch (partly because I wasn’t good at anything), I used to vicariously lead the life of superheroes, local as well as of phoren import, fighting their battles, facing their dilemmas, adoring their love-interests (Shaktimaan’s Geeta, the feisty reporter comes to one’s mind), and […]

How to screw a perfectly fine Interview?!

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. – Napoleon 1 For some people, failure is a setback; for some, it a learning opportunity; for others, failure is success in disguise; for the writers of the self-help books, failure is a source of employment. But for me, failing is an art. […]

Alienman calling Alienman!

It sucks to be me! To pull myself out of this self-defeating blackhole, I have decided to go on a one hell of an egotistic journey. I have decided, once again, to write Alienman!

Essay No. 3 : Large Swings in India’s policies – Environment, GAAR derailing investments

The once ‘Shining India’ has lost its sheen. With inflation skyrocketing, a large CAD, amid low manufacturing outputs, India’s growth story has hit a bumper. The normal tendency of the ruling party is to blame it on recession in U.S. (of 2008). But there is a consensus amongst the learned economists of this country that, […]

Essay No. 2 : Can grow fast now and clean later work?

‘Myopia’ is a condition associated with short-sightedness. Humans are often blamed for that when it comes to environment. Too many diabolical sci-fi novels have been written, but soon enough, they might become reality the way we are moving forward. Climate change and Pollution, Deforestation and Erosion – are the fallout of unbridled industrial expansion. The […]