From the past few days, Atanu has been posting blog-posts on what a Rational IT policy should look like, and what should be the role of the Government in it.  One of his posts received the following reaction from the GNUvisions blog:
The people who are in the business of education are literally in the “business” [...]

.. No, this is not in reference with the nationalist movements that are prevalent today. This is a title of an article written by Jabez T. Sutherland (Link-thanks: doubtinggaurav) which appeared in The Atlantic way back in October 1908. In this article, the author asks some important question regarding Great Britain’s occupancy in India. The [...]

A lot has been said about Barkha Dutt and NDTV’s legal notice to a blogger who poured out his emotions over what he felt was irresponsible and shoddy journalism.
Many people have spoken out about the freedom of speech and the freedom to voice out our opinions on the internet. I have read the blogpost against [...]

“Gotee, what’s wrong with you man?”, a friend asked.
“Why, what happened?”, I asked back, wondering which of my idiosyncrasies was she referring to.
“You’re reading the Bhagavad Gita it seems! You’re going to temple daily. Knowing you, and the rate at which you change, I think after five years in the US, you’ll come back a [...]

Quick Takes.

Cricket: India Whopped England’s ass in the first ODI. Way to go boys!
Had Potluck lunch at office today. The theme was Ethnic wear. I wore a Mundu!

Last time when I had gone home, I had a discussion with my mom regarding my future studies plans. There were certain things which we didn’t agree upon [...]

At times when you like something very much, and you start revering the creator, and later you realize that the creator had stolen that thing from some other place, you really feel let down.
I liked Pritam Chakraborty’s music, from the time of his first solo success Dhoom. He followed this up with some really cool [...]

It’s been some time since I last posted something. Had been busy gathering data for the OLS paper and once that was done, got some time to look into the couple of months old CPU-Hotplug issue. There are some more items to be done there, hopefully will get some free time this month.
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People who know me, know the fact that I like to keep my options open. Simply because it allows the freedom to defer any decision till it really needs to be taken.
However, in the last couple of years, I have observed that this has a common side effect: A totally scattered mind which is trying [...]

Opening Mood: Fresh!
Opening song: Innocent Man - Billy Joel
Okay, for the past three days, I have been wearing formals to office. Yes, you heard it right, formal shirt (not a smart-comment T-Shirt), a pair of formal trousers (not faded jeans) and formal shoes (not my black puma!).
Before you start reading too much into it, [...]

Opening Mood: This is insane!
Opening Song: None.
Like I mentioned in my previous post I was out for the whole of last week and am catching up with the happenings. One of the hilarious things that came to my notice is that one of my friends, lets say K, who usually boasts of his HUGE [...]