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…

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! )

Got up today thinking about Rouvanjit, the 13 yr old who was studying at the prestigious school, who committed suicide after being caned by the principal. Today the news is that they have banned the cane but the principal refuses  to step down! As a parent myself, I am feeling extremely sad and disgusted that such archiac methods of instilling discipline are still in use.

I am scared too coz the parents don’t know what happens inside the school! Maybe such schools should get a lesson in child psycology. The teachers should be taught how to deal with the students as they are very sensitive at such a tender age. Faults like coming late to school or not completing the homework should be brought to the notice of parents if it happens regularly. Otherwise things should be sorted out with the child in an amicable manner.

This issue has been cropping in my mind ever since I got myself registered to websites like facebook, orkut, twitter, and linkedin. There is so much scope of putting up all information about yourself, right from educational qualifications to which movies and songs you like, and that is mind boggling. Not to forget the images and videos which can elaborately depict your vacations, day to day activities and likes and dislikes. Facebook also has an option to add links from different websites which can be viewed by friends and acquaintances alike. To top it all, there is an option of updating your status message time and again which is so very fashionable as loads of discussions happen on topics such as “I am getting late for office”.