Smart Phone or Smart People

At some point, smartphone ownership can start to feel like a runaround. You buy the phone with the new! best! features! and a year later, Apple (or whoever) reveals a newer phone with the newer! bestest! features! and your phone becomes obsolete.

The concept, from designer Dave Hakkens, is of a totally modular phone with separate "parts" that can be swapped out, removed, or upgraded, depending on the needs of the user. When they make a faster chip or a better screen, you could simply buy a new chip or screen without replacing the entire phone. If you just want a lot of disk space or battery juice and don't care about your camera, you could sacrifice the one for the other. Smart!P

And sure, it may be unrealistic. It doesn't seem to be designed with profitability in mind, which would make it a tough sell for cell phone manufacturers. And I have no idea if it would even be possible to engineer something like this. (Though if they can put a freakin' fingerprint scanner on an iPhone, surely someone could make something like this work?) P

But whatever, this idea is too appealing to ignore completely. Why not explore it? See what happens? You don't have to give them money to support the idea; all they ask is that people go to Thunderclap and lend them some social media push. And what's the harm, really? Phonebloks may never amount to anything, but you never know.

Nammo choosen for PM of India in 2014

Three cheers to our Indian government to choose "Shree Narendra Modi" to be the PM of India in 2014. I stayed in Gujarat for more than a decade and the changes I saw in Nammo's leadership were fantastic. Gujarat has a fair population of 'Non-Hindus' but he has controlled them so well after the Godhara issue that they dare speak up against him.
Nammo deserved this post as he brought Gujarat on the world map. Irony is that Gujarat is known because of him. Whenever someone ask me "Where are you from?" and I answer "I am from Gujarat", they immediately say "Ohh you are from Narendra Modi's state !!!".

This only goes to show that "India main der hain, andher nahi hai".

Music

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
I am addicted to music so much, that whenever I am in tension or want to do my work fast, I put my music on loud speaker and start working. Amazingly, my productivity increases like a superman and time actually stops flying.

Science

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Kannada Barutha (Do u know kannada)

Aaaah! I am sure most of you in Bangalore would have heard this, but what is "kannada barutha?" here it goes. Bangalore the IT capital of India , the silicon city and now a

Metro city opened its gates to almost all kinds of people. Very evidently the recent poll census proved that there are only 47% of original inhabitants in Bangalore/­Bengaluru.

The life style of the city has seen a gradual change with Pizza Corners replacing MTR's, classy eat out's replacing "Vidyarthi Bhavans" and flashy pub's replacing all our
"Mahalakshmi wine shops".

"Change is inevitable" from the days of BEML, HAL and BHEL to INFOSYS, WIPRO,BIOCON, TCS, etc; Bangalore has a new look now on the world map. Gone are the days
where a typical Sunday for any bangalorean was a nice romantic walk on the pavements of "LALBAGH...", "rave idli and coffee.." at the nearest yet old looking MTR and a
wonderful Annavra film either at Santosh or central 'talkies'. Today's Bangalore is deluged in traffic, stress and pressure, Saturday nights without beer is desolate and
a Sunday without a visit to either a nearest spa or health clinic is schlocky!!

The Gandhibazar's are now AC cooled super markets, majestic is now replaced by ultra modern and diversified Brigade road, sri Cauvery coffee joint is now Coffee days.. and
"Bhagyalakshmi coffee adda.. is now barista. With globalization and more retail market the city will definitely see more forceful changes.

Have all these changed our language?

Kannada the local language of Bangalore is supposed to be one of the most meaningful language, it also has an unique script as compared to its other counterparts; but how
many percentage of people really use Kannada in Bangalore now? The figures are staggering, only 37% of people speak kannada in the state's capital, for rest it is
only "Kannada barutha?"

Any normal guy starts with this sentence "Kannada barutha?" while talking to other person, people confirm before they speak the language. You want to ask an address in
Bangalore? Or reply to a question then English is the most preferred language other than Hindi.. It's a famous fact that two kannidagas in an IT company always talk in
a neutral language!! even the vendors and shop keepers are channeled with this new wave, the moment when you step in any shop in Bangalore , you are always asked
"Kannada barutha?" or the entire conversation take! s place in non kannada languages. People have lost the confidence of speaking in the local language and more
over speaking Kannada on the streets of "M.G road "or "Kormangala" is substandard. Shopping malls in the city have been completely banned from using Kannada, not
a forced one but definitely an adapted one.

One has to confirm that the other person knows the language before he starts using any language. "ondu glass beer" is a insult when it comes to any decorous pub in
Bangalore . "Swalpa menu card kodthira..??" has been replaced by "Can I have the menu card please...?"

Just to hit some facts, Marathi is still the largest and common speaking language in Mumbai even though Mumbai has the highest no of inhabitants. Telugu is a
practiced ritual in yet another IT HUB Hyderabad. When it comes to Tamilnadu, beware you can be alive either if you are a fan of Rajnikanth or you know Tamil..
Malayalam runs in the blood of every mallu be it Kuwait , Dubai or any hospital; but when it comes to kannada it is always "Kannada barutha?" and next is
"Namaskara."

I am neither a Kannada activist nor do I run any Kannada supporting organization, I am just a plebeian who just love the language.
Globalization is the trend and modernization is the mantra but at the cost the language?
Sounds no logic.. Is speaking Kasthuri Kannada down market? The answer has to be found within oneself. Next time when
someone asks you "Kannada barutha?" you just tell them that “Kannada Nan rakhtadalli kannadi idhe" ”