Practical applications of Y Combinators in Clojure
When the term Y Combinator is mentioned in most technology circles today, the image it usually conjures up is of the well known startup incubator with their orange logo and a list of famous funded companies. There’s a very interesting reason they…
Texting should improve language skills, not regress them
If the past few generations (millenials and onwards) have grown up spending the majority of their lives communicating over the written medium – text, email, et al – aren’t they more likely to have a better command over language? Rather than be…
Piqued by Piketty
The rise of the middle class has been a hugely important political and social development across the world, spanning a large part of the 20th century. How would society change if the number of jobs that have historically driven this section of the…
Thoughts on the Tablet era
Apple’s iPad has been the poster child of the “post PC era” ever since its inception. As the device has matured however, it has gained competition from practically every company that can build a hardware device, from Microsoft to Samsung. Its reviews…
Nehru and Modi
Quoting Ramchandra Guha, In his pomp — which ran roughly from 1948 to 1960 — Nehru was venerated at home Representative are these comments of The Guardian, written after the Indian prime minister had addressed a press conference in London in the…
Of places and stories in our minds
It is the combination of things we remember that point out how certain places are special to us, hallowed by their unique features and our own experiences in them. It matters not whether we intended to go there, or whether a series of serendipitous…
An Ode to Vikram Seth's 'The Golden Gate'
When the inimitable Mr Seth, penned that beauty, The Golden Gate, little did he dream that one day he would, inspire a rhyme, that if it could, serve as an ode to that gorgeous book, and inspire others to take a look, at a city he spied from across…
Rain in the city by the bay
But tonight, I can’t help but feel bad about what he must feel, huddled in the small space without a roof, trying his best to protect himself from the increasingly wild rain. I can’t imagine the events that brought him to this, but I just wish life…
The rights of LGBT vs non human persons in India
In its quest to make the world a better place, the Indian Ministry for Environments and Forests released the following regulation a few months ago, abolishing the use of dolphins in marine circuses and advising state governments to reject any…