Category Archives: Internet

Purpose Purporting

Posted on July 28, 2010 by manuscrypts

Purpose. I remember bringing this up earlier in ‘Coincide‘ and mentioning that different life stages manage to give us short term purposes which leave little time for this line of questioning – a larger purpose of life itself.  Like I … Continue reading →

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Facet

Posted on June 16, 2010 by manuscrypts

Facebook’s policy changes a while back meant that suddenly,  the average user (as opposed to the technophile and conspiracy theorist) is raising an eyebrow, or both, depending on knowledge levels, at what it means to his privacy. This is not … Continue reading →

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Higher Stakes

Posted on May 19, 2010 by manuscrypts

The ‘cow slaughter ban’ bill that got passed in the Karnataka assembly sometime back, got a lot of people’s erm, goat, especially Mallus, for many of whom, paradoxically, its a ‘holy cow’ issue. But the phenomenal prospects of wordplay is … Continue reading →

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Gulp fiction

Posted on May 12, 2010 by manuscrypts

I’m quite a huge fan of Heroes and was quite sad to see Season 4 end, more so than normal season finales, because after quite a while, there was a villain that I could really empathise with.  Robert Knepper as … Continue reading →

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This connect…..

Posted on April 7, 2010 by manuscrypts

Perspectives. The ones that will only make sense to yourself. I experience a lot of that – both ways. Cryptic ‘humour’ that I come up with, a book that I read. Maybe one has to be ready to receive that … Continue reading →

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Social Obligations

Posted on March 31, 2010 by manuscrypts

Sometime back, I had this conversation with Surekha. Let me give you the context. I subscribe to a lot of sites on Google Reader, and therefore find a lot of links that I want to share. I end up sharing … Continue reading →

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Fire Drill

Posted on March 3, 2010 by manuscrypts

A few years ago, 3 to be precise, I might’ve been in the thick of it. The fire at Carlton Towers. My visiting card then carried this – Mid Day, 301, Carlton Towers…. No, I wouldn’t have been tweeting, because … Continue reading →

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Waking Life?

Posted on February 17, 2010 by manuscrypts

(not really to do with that excellent film) All good things have a season finale, and when it happens to be the last season, the event becomes all the more poignant. Boston Legal has been my favourite show for a … Continue reading →

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The clique friendly web

Posted on January 27, 2010 by manuscrypts

In spite of the last post, I’m a bit ambivalent about Vir Sanghvi’s column. On one hand, I am in complete agreement with the rebuttals that I have read – Lekhni, Amit, Rohit. Rational and well articulated. And yet, over … Continue reading →

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Time Off

Posted on December 23, 2009 by manuscrypts

In an earlier post – “Brood Mode“, I’d written about expectations, and how sometimes, they cannot be met. In the context of that post, Austere had commented thus “Is it the instant-ness demanded of the response that puts one’s brain … Continue reading →

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