Nasty nostalgia for Calcutta city
Suffering from a bad attack of nostalgia now that I’m back home, where I grew up- Calcutta. Note my refusal to call it by its official name, Kolkata. I knew it as Calcutta and...
Category: cultural anthropology
The pastoral and the selfie
While talking a walk in the Agri-Horticultural Gardens today, I stopped to look at the fountains. I drank them in Sated, I began to get bored. The pastoral (refers to the countryside, specially an...
Cross the line
“Why is Sita so passive, ma’am?” piped up a girl in my Hindi class, as I was teaching an excerpt from Ramayana. Flummoxed, I stared at her. She bounced back in her seat, thinking...
What’s his face- Mark Zuckerberg a.k.a Frankenstein
After watching The Social Network, I wanted to know more about Mark Zuckerberg. I went to Wikipedia, which factually more or less confirmed what was mentioned in the movie. I watched an interview of...
Facebook’s not our Newspaper, it’s our Ad
I’m often irritated when I see photos of happy friends at birthdays etc on Facebook. People don’t seem to share the downs as much as the ups here. Although no one likes a wet...
The Vicious Circle of Social Media
Social media is logically the best way to learn about what’s happening in social media. There’s something constantly happening in this field. We feel like we always need to be plugged in, otherwise we...
All I Really Need to Know, I learn on Twitter
The other day, someone asked me, “Which class are you in?” I smiled, explained that it had been a while since I finished my education. But that interaction got me thinking. Does learning stop...