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Sheena Iyengar

Yesterday, read an article about Sheena Iyengar, who is blind by birth but has come up with a book. The interviewer was asking different types of  questions, but this lady stuck to her stance. An inpiring story I must say. Am looking forward to purchase the book “Art of Choosing”. I simply liked her answer when being asked why did she take up her husband’s name as surname. All she said was that it was a politically correct choice!

For countries, shopping is no big deal… anyone can do it but in India, we

A Boeing 737 jetliner crashed due to lightening and thunderstorm in Bagota, Colombia. It had 131 people overboard and only one person died. This is being termed as a miracle by Times of India newspaper. Although the plane broke into three pieces – as depicted in the  picture on the left – all but one passengers survived thankfully.

I am slightly annoyed by the way the TOI is carrying the news. They are stating it as ‘It was a miracle only one person died’. Having worked in the content field myself, I am surprised to read that such reputed newspapers can write reports/articles even without editing them properly. But, what to say they have got only one day to paint the 22 page newspaper green…

Any opinions on this… all comments are appreciated…

Went to local Big Bazaar (supermarket) today for grocery shopping. I like shopping so I always look forward to it whether it is grocery, clothes, shoes, bags, and so on. But today at BB, a salesman selling Active brand of juices stopped me midway and asked me to taste the juice and provide some feedback. I was a bit annoyed as I was busy looking at apples, oranges, maggi, milk, oil, wheat flour and so on… But politely, I said that I do not wish to taste but if he wishes, I can provide the feedback. A bit relieved, the salesman gave me the feedback form and I had to write my name and phone number. Excitedly, I started to write but he interrupted and told me that madam, you if you give the phone number, you will receive smses from Bipasha Basu(she is a Bollywood celebrity) or someone on her behalf…

This is a poem that I learnt by heart in school (class V or VI) which seems like it will stay with me forever

Hawa hoon hawa main, basanti hawa hoon,

Suno baat meri, anokhi hawa hoon,

Badi bawli hoon, badi mast maula,

Nahi kuch fikar hai, badi hi nidar hoon,

Jidhar chahati hoon, udhar ghoomti hoon,

Musafir ajab hoon.

Na ghar baar mera, na uddeshye mera,

Na iccha kisi ki, na asha kisi ki,

Na premi na, na dushman,

Hawa hoon, hawa main basanti hawa hoon.

If I remember correctly this was by Mahadevi Verma. Education has its own tags attached. Some things are difficult to learn and some things stay with you forever. Such is life.

FB or Facebook is a hugely popular social networking website with a layout and functionality that is quite user-friendly. To a normal user, it comes across as a platform for general friendly interactions and keeping in touch with distant relatives and friends. But as there are exceptions attached to almost everything, there is a group of people who are deadly against it and think of it as some evil on earth.

Quite cynically, these are the same people who maintain their account lying low and enjoy the interactions with their own state of mind. They would occasionally post pictures of their family and friends and throw in some things here and there just to make their presence felt. I wonder sometimes the kind and level of frustrations they are carrying within themselves. Would such breed ever delete their accounts and vanish from the scene where Angelina Jolie and Jonny Depp are somewhere being discussed in good humor. The answer is plain NO! (I find it quite interesting when people use the font size and font shape to emphasize importance, strength and so on. Actually, that’s the way it is, and I also comply to that many a times. Excuse the hormones please! )