The free and open source answer to the ever degrading social networking is almost here! It is called Diaspora*. Like the Internet itself, Diaspora* isn’t housed in any one place, and it’s not controlled by any one entity, thereby giving us absolute control over our privacy! Continue reading
Category Archives: Technology
The Diaspora* revolution!
Posted in Education, Technology
Colleges and Society
It is said that if all is well with the colleges, all will be well with the society. I am sure you will agree with me, that all is not well with our society today. Hence the conclusion is inevitable that all is not well with our colleges. It is one thing for the colleges to reflect the social reality. What is more desirable is that the college should be an agent of change in the society. In a positive and dynamic way. In a fulfilling way. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Economy, Education, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Sankalp, Technology
Some notes on the census form of India
I recently had a look at the census form of India. I was happy to note that question 3 on ‘Gender’ seeks to enumerate transgenders alongside men and women. I was shocked to find that under question 9 on ‘Disability’, ‘mental retardation’ is listed as one of the disabilities. Now who uses that kind of language in census form? Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, Technology
Act of tyranny! Bill of injustice!
The Hindu has written against it. Churmuri has protested it. Kafila has protested it. Prashant Iyengar, Vickram Crishna and Nikhil Pahwa have all protested it. Yet by and large, the blogging community seems to be unware about the fact that their freedom of expression is in grave danger! All of a sudden when citizen journalism is the order of the day and RTI is taking shape, the tyrant government is blocking our freedom of speech. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Personal, Politics, Technology
Pyramids were not built in a day
Many of my friends claimed that the revolution in Egypt was a Facebook or Twitter revolution. This belief has spread so far that many Indians have notched up their participation on social networking sites in hopes of revolution. Well, as a matter of fact, 17% of Egyptians have internet access which was severely blocked during the revolution. Egyptian revolution was ‘not’ a social media-inspired revolution. Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics, Technology, World
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 