Wikimania, the annual global conference of the Wikimedia Foundation, who runs, among others, the popular free knowledge site Wikipedia, this year was held at Cape Town, South Africa. With 123 other volunteers from around the World, I was one of the full scholarship recipients this year to attend the conference. Being my first Wikimania, I… Read more »
My first experience of boarding a ship was in the late eighties, when a book fair was organised on board a ship anchored in the Khidirpur dockyard. My elder brother and I went there with our father, and I still remember, I was forcing them to walk faster, as I though the ship might leave… Read more »
Cricket, the most popular sport in India, is played throughout the year, not only on parks and grounds, but also on the narrow lanes and by-lanes of cities and towns throughout the country. Few weeks ago, I came across one such small and young group at what is known as the Graffiti Lane of Calcutta…. Read more »
We support our batsmen when they go through a bad patch. We say “Form is temporary … class is permanent“. We hope they will soon be back with a great innings. We only forget the above when a certain Sourav Ganguly enters a bad patch. We start doubting his capabilities if he fails… Read more »
Is piracy bad? Is it good? Before going into that I think we must first redefine piracy and its scope. I was reading an article in Digit (April 2006 – Pg. 126) titled “Is Piracy Good?”. A great article and I think everyone should grab a copy of Digit and go through it. The point… Read more »