In 2 weeks, India has moved from cautious to infected. The numbers continue to grow on a daily basis. For a disease that is highly contagious and with symptoms that could be easily mistaken for common ailments, the danger is omnipresent for a nation like ours – rich in people, average in medicare and poor in awareness. Read more »

Read the instruction manual and make yourself familiar with the capabilities of your camera. Features such as exposure control, flash control, ISO setting, white balance etc are basic but can give you good options to experiment with and hone your creative skills. Read more »

Running a country is not easy. There are the millions who decide the course of a nation that they little understand about. We may not see ourselves getting the absolute best politicians in our lifetime, but we can surely hope to see a few who will make the difference and lead us in the right direction. Read more »

The acrobat was a girl of about eight or less. Perhaps from a gypsy family, she was riding a bicycle rim on a makeshift tightrope suspended at least three times her height. Read more »

In a way, exposure is ensuring your photos have the right amount of colour, brightness and contrast. This ensure your pictures are neither too dark nor too bright. While its very easy to ‘photoshop’ your images to get unrealistic colour, it takes a good camera and a better photographer to capture colours as close to reality as possible. Read more »

I am no whiz in photography, but have been earnestly trying out some of the great tips from the masters. Here I share 7 of my best learnings for everyday photography. Trust me, the differences can be dramatic in certain cases. Read more »

Everyone had the trendiest mobile and the coolest ringtone, multiple accounts in the finest banks, the snazziest cars and the poshest houses… Somewhere down the years, the conservative Indian seems to have almost disappeared. Read more »

As India Special sets to create its Hyderabad section, the first thing that struck me was our own beloved Cafe. Irani chai to be more precise. The local hangout of most college goers, salesmen, collection agents, businessmen and the daily wage earners… The local cafe never disappoints anyone. Read more »

While rules and ideas on water harvesting have been in existence, it would really make a difference if half of us practiced this in earnest. The cost is not really huge and the beneficiaries are locals. Read more »

True friends are those who help in times of need – emotionally, financially, socially and more. These are the ones who in reality are your extended family. Read more »

In today’s world, there are umpteen reasons to be unhappy about. But there are few who can laugh off everything and choose to be happy. Are you one? Read more »

There are two ways of getting a driver’s license in India – the honest approach or the DIY or the Do It Yourself approach. DIY, the tested age old fun way of beating the RTA system down Read more »

Indian roads & traffic! The vehicles (trucks, auto rickshaws, call-center cabs, bikes), the way people zip, zoom and vroom through these roads is to be seen and felt. And of course don’t forget to offer prayers every time you get back home safely Read more »

In this much needed era of awareness, Nokia announced their recycling campaign for the Indian region. What’s more, Nokia will also plant a tree for every handset received Read more »

In what our earlier generation did, there was a message. A message to conserve and reuse – in ways they thought best. Something they perhaps unknowingly did. Or maybe out of need. Read more »