amazon missing the obvious (and important?)
Hi, my name is Surya and I have a problem. I order too much from Amazon. So much so, that all the books now dominate the walls of my apt. Yet, Amazon also frustrates me to no end. When I buy a present for for someone, say my 1 year-old nephew, the next time on […]
why is the wii so shocking?
I played the Wii at a friends house on Saturday and loved it. It made me think about why it didn’t come along sooner. What makes the Wii great? It’s flat-out fun. It doesn’t have the best graphics in video games. It’s not so immersive that you feel like you’re in another world. It wasn’t about […]
why ‘the namesake’ is irritating me.
I don’t know anything about how to market a Hollywood movie. But I like to think I can spot an opportunity missed. Enter: The Namesake, the upcoming movie based on one of my favorite books.So here’s an open-letter to Mira Nair, the Executive Producers of The Namesake, and the marketing executives at Fox Searchlight. (If you […]
my take on the shilpa shetty/big brother controversy
Yup, reality TV is a contrived and unnatural setting. On occasion it can stumble its way into insight. Everyday moments, that would ordinarily go unnoticed, get magnified and bring scrutiny, focus, and debate. Probably not enough to redeem the genre, but useful all the same. The story of Shilpa Shetty and the reality TV show, […]
what my favorite books/authors says about me
As a change of pace, I thought I’d share something personal. I love reading. Since I believe that what we love reading reveals a lot about us, here are four authors I adore: Jhumpa Lahiri Lahiri won a Pulitzer Prize for her first book, a collection of short-stories entitled, The Interpreter of Maladies. Though it’s […]
the universe revealed: puzzles vs mysteries
This blew my mind with its simplicity: Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point and Blink) has another amazing article in The New Yorker. I’m calling it the article of the 10-day-old-year. He defends Enron’s ex-CEO, Jeff Skilling, by asserting that Skilling should not have been legally liable because he disclosed Enron’s sketchy bookkeeping in […]
how the Internet will rid the world of all evil…
The Internet will banish evil the world over. Slowly, but surely, it will march along and destroy the evil behaviors of corporations, organizations, governments and even individuals. The Internet saves all. What am I babbling about? Connection & Emotion. At its most basic level, the Internet connects– connects you to news, weather, reference articles and […]