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Mar 15, 14 • 508 Views • Café, featured, Features, Techknow, Voices • Aniket Dasgupta • 1 Comment
This rant article is intended to put out a few observations on the impact of facebook in a lighter vein. It’s not meant to be taken verbatim and The Yellow King is not really yellow in colour. It was 2007. Everyone was talking about a new social networking...
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Feb 28, 14 • 677 Views • Café, featured, Features, Techknow, Voices • Swathy Sethumadhavan • 3 Comments
So does anyone around here remember ICQ? That hippie doodle flower was such a big part of my childhood. ICQ’s interface might have been prehistoric compared to (the super annoying) MSN messenger that came soon after. Things went downhill after that and...
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Feb 7, 12 • 187 Views • Café • Neha Joshi • 4 Comments
The smoke, filled with underlying tones of sandalwood, blurred my vision. My eyes teared and I blinked. I was home early that evening only to find Aparna in the garden. She had always loved the outdoors – flowering bushes, trees and butterflies – even...
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Apr 8, 11 • 320 Views • Books, Reviews • Lipi Mehta • 3 Comments
Over the past few years, the Indian literary scene has evidently tipped from Bankim Chandra and Prem Chand to authors who write in a more urban and contemporary style. The country has seen a large increase in books and of course, a new array of writers....
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Apr 6, 11 • 228 Views • Interviews • Lipi Mehta • 2 Comments
Ahmed Faiyaz was born in Bangalore, lives in Dubai and loves Himachal Pradesh. He runs Grey Oak Publishers, has written two best-sellers and various short stories. A qualified chartered accountant (as if being an author-cum-publisher wasn’t enough), he...
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Apr 6, 11 • 168 Views • Café • Lipi Mehta • No Comments
The engines are rolling all the time. You bounce out of bed. Make a run for the bathroom. The teeth; oh! They are brushed in such a hurry that they would cry out loud had they been able to speak! The coffee goes down the throat all at once. And so does all...
