Books
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What Will You Say About Yourself?
One of the trickiest and perhaps the toughest things to do, apart from deciding what to do when stuck in lift moving up and down many floors, is writing about yourself. At any point of time, you never really understand yourself completely. And even if you are under the false impression that you do, you… Continue reading
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The Great Indian Middle Class
Tonnes of newsprint, miles of television tapes, years of television airtime and millions of calories of energy(ok, that was a bad one) have been spent on analyzing, debating and arguing about the Indian middle class. Honestly, all this noise got to such nauseating levels that people who constitute the middle class have ended up becoming… Continue reading
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Dear Aniruddha Bahal, It’s Not Funny
Dear Aniruddha Bahal, Not a week passes in my life without I mentioning strongly recommending Bunker 13 to people I come across and who seem even remotely interested in reading among those. If I were deeply religious, one would have observed that I go back to Bunker 13 more often that I go to the… Continue reading
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The 3 Mistakes Of My Life
Reading the book, though, was not one of them. Liked the fact that it is set in Ahmedabad and to a fair extent captures the essence of life in the city. The book is not so much about bringing about the ethos and isolation of an entire generation to the fore as the blurb says.… Continue reading
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The Truth About India
Now, after traveling some eight thousand miles around the country, I know approximately as little as I did on my first arrival. However I’ve seen a lot of people and places, and at least somewhat more detailed and precise idea of my ignorance than I did in the beginnning. Paul Bowles in Their Heads Are… Continue reading
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Thank You
Thank Yous. Not in any specific order but all the specific reasons. Thank You guys . Thank You and You guys. Thank You Sir and your Friends. Thank You Panditji and You, Sir. Thank You for this. Thank You for this. Thank You for this. Interesting that the main character is from Bijapur. But it’s… Continue reading
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Point Your Mouse To
No pun intended, unless you thought of that thing as a mouse. Let’s not get into the pun trap, or punt rap for now! Point your mouse to CircusMouse. Lot of action happening there. And someone likes posts on CircusMouse doesn’t mean he’s gay for me. Gay for me? Now, as a young thing would… Continue reading
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Filmosophy
Apart from those well spent 2-3 hours, one of the best things about watching movies is that one discovers interesting connections between the characters in the movie philosophers. In A Fish Called Wanda, Otto‘s favourite philosopher is Nietzsche. In Little Miss Sunshine, Frank is America’s Number 1 Proust scholar. [Marcel Proust] And Dwyane is shown… Continue reading
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The Curious Incident Of The Quote In The Night Time
The problem begins when you do not know what to do with it. The problem only gets worse when you don’t know what to do without it. Looks like immense profoundity flows when one is reading Mark Haddon. It’s A Spot Of Bother right now. PS. The quote indeed came in the night time. At… Continue reading
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Naansense and a month in Mumbai.
[ I’m in Mumbai now. All my tech posts like the previous one on search engines will now be on WATblog.Here are my recent posts on WATblog.] This is the tenth time I’m sitting down to write this. It should have been up about ten days back, but then ten things wouldn’t have been added.… Continue reading
About Me
I am a Product Manager based in Sydney, Australia currently working as a Group Product Manager at Atlassian. I am passionate about creating an impact using technology and that has led me to some very interesting career and life journeys. My interests include traveling, books, music and movies. I love trivia and quizzing and I have been on a few TV quiz shows as well. Views are my own.
Recent Posts
- Speaking at Atlassian’s annual conference, TEAM ’24 at Las Vegas on ‘Building AI: Atlassian’s approach to crafting exceptional intelligent experiences’
- 4 ways you can scale up as an individual contributor Product Manager
- 🎧 Podcasts, podcasts and more podcasts – this time on Communication and Coaching
- From ‘I’m not a podcast person’ to bingeing on Aussie true crime podcasts
- My first *bushwalking* 👣 ⛰ experience in Australia – Berowra Track at Mt Kuring-gai Chase National Park